Stanford’s new Engineering Quad is beautiful. One of my engineering friends said that biking through it made him feel good about being an engineer.
PLUS, this very green and gorgeous campus region is home to the new Stanford location of Ike’s Place. People are pretty crazy about it.
Well, they must be, because the lines are pretty solid before 11.
Several weeks ago, I found myself waiting in that line for about half an hour, trying not to lose my way inside the super-stocked laminated menu… and also trying to remember the craziest names.
My $5.95 sandwich was the Half “Vegan Sally Ride”: Vegan Turkey, Avocado, Soy Cheese on my choice of Wheat bread. And that may seem like not that many ingredients, but it an unexpected explosion of taste, quite frankly.
For my male friends…
An $8.98 Full “The Catch”: All Beef Meatballs, Marinara, Pepper Jack sandwich. (Except I can’t even remember if it was The Catch.)
Unfortunately/vaguely, Dan said he wasn’t totally crazy about his sandwich.
But pictured above is my friend after having enjoyed his $8.98 Full “Bill Walsh”: Turkey, Avocado, Havarti – which he said was totally satisfactory.
Oh! Ike’s gives you a complimentary fruit or bag of chips with your sandwich, too! Which made me realize that although I absolutely adore Olives at Bldg. 160, Ike’s half-sandwiches are [kind of] a better deal, being at the same price and all… (Olives has all my Cardinal dollars, by the way. This is becoming a serious lunchtime issue.)
Ike’s sandwiches are actually very… American, and by that I mean super saucy: All their sandwiches implicitly include Ike’s Secret Sauce.
But overall, it was worth at least one trip to investigate what all the hullabaloo was about.
And you should go at least once, too, but definitely not at lunch time, if you want to eat during lunch time. Have fun choosing your sandwich!
=)
I’d like a big bite on that sandwich .. yummy =D