When walking along Graf Ignatiev, one is presented with many consumer options. Most of them, as we discovered last Sunday, are shoe shops. But in between footwear boutiques are two rather different lunch options - Mimas, popularly known among the international community to serve the best doner kepaps in town, and Subway - a brand new and wildly popular addition to the usual Sofia lunch fare. This week we decided to try both.
First, we watched the doner man work his magic on the grilled chicken stack, massaging a pita into one side of his open oven while slicing off crisp pieces of meat, finally scooping it all together with some piping hot french fries. As Brett happily munched this Bulgarian version of the burrito/gyro/wrap/lefse roll, we wandered down into the new (packed) Subway store. How can something be so exactly what you expect and yet so different at the same time? There were the friendly sandwich options and gross-looking cookies of high school sporting days, and yet written in letters on the menu that would have been gibberish to me in high school.
As I walked out with my foot long roasted chicken sandwich on multigrain, Brett called for a return to the doner kepap stand. Subway was making him hungry...
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Subway is fine, I suppose, but mmmmm....doner kebabs. The U.S. has to pick up the ball on this...
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