Flavor, creativity, thoughtfully sourced ingredients, a fun atmosphere-owner Kathleen Day’s popular café (now with two locations) delivers it all. If we weren’t careful, Katalina’s (along with Wario’s) would dominate our sandwich guide. Mazatlán Slow-Roasted Pork & Egg, Katalina’s If you miss the boat, there’s good news: Ray Ray’s brisket and jerk chicken sandwiches are also hard to beat. Wednesday through Sunday until it sells out. You can order whole-hog barbecue as a sandwich or on its own with three sides, but it’s only available after 5 p.m. (Anderson couldn’t decide on one, so he kept both.) Pork rinds add crunch on top. To build the Whole Hawg, Ray Ray’s uses a seeded roll baked by Matt Swint of Matija Breads, then tops the chopped pork with house-made coleslaw and chow-chow, a Southern relish. While being “processed” or chopped, the meat is seasoned and given generous doses of hot sauce and vinegar “just like they would in North Carolina,” Anderson says.
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It’s then chopped-offal and all, though Anderson cooks the skin separately, turning it into pork rinds.
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The pork gets both wet rub and dry rub treatments and cooks for 24 hours. To make whole-hog barbecue at his new Granville restaurant, Anderson sources heritage hogs from his own farm a couple of miles away. Whole-hog barbecue is a rarity in Central Ohio, but Ray Ray’s founder and James Beard nominee James Anderson has recently filled that void. More: Neighbor’s Deli’s Jon Snyder Believes Bigger is Better PorkĪnderson Farms Whole Hawg, Ray Ray’s Meat + Three More: Reuben Faceoff: Neighbor’s Deli vs. Katzinger’s Delicatessen More: S'wich Social Offers Modern Take on a Childhood Classic More: 13 Plant-Based Sandwiches to Try in Columbus More: How Wario’s Beef and Pork Makes its Cold Cut Sandwich More: Sí Señor’s Guillermo Perez on his Life-Changing Sandwiches
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Instead, you will find where to get a Buffalo-style beef on weck and a killer lobster roll. You won’t find any burgers in these pages- we took on that challenge a couple of years ago, choosing Preston’s: A Burger Joint as our No. We spent the spring rounding up the area’s best sandwiches, some well-known and some new to our tastebuds. You can already add to that list The Cold Cut from newcomer Wario’s Beef and Pork, which honestly doesn’t have a weak link on the menu. Maybe Katalina’s Mazatlán Slow-Roasted Pork & Egg.
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Or Fox in the Snow’s Souffléed Egg Sandwich. What is a classic Columbus sandwich? The Reuben from Katzinger’s Delicatessen, perhaps.