At a table by the window at The Bread Box, the staff paraded custom cakes for their social media glamour shots while I ate lunch one chair away.
The confectionery catwalk — including a sculpted beer mug cake with marshmallow suds — kept pulling my attention away from the sandwiches at hand. But where I lost focus, The Bread Box never did, turning out sandwiches that lived up to the promise of some of the best bread in this series.
Tina Kent and her husband, Lucas Kent, opened The Bread Box in 2012, and in those 10 years they’ve parlayed a lifetime of restaurant experience into making memorable cakes, cookies, pies, soups and sandwiches in a setting like a posh country tearoom.
A banh mi sandwich comes with lemongrass chicken, cucumbers, jalapeños, pickled carrots, cilantro and spring mix on house-baked French bread at The Bread Box at The Alley on Bitters shopping center in San Antonio.
Mike Sutter/StaffHe’s baked for the respected San Antonio restaurants Cappy’s and Bliss. Her mom and dad owned Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants, respectively. So it’s more than just the bread. It’s the taste, balance and value between that bread.
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Best sandwich: I’ve never been an Egg McMuffin fan. With their dusty, chewy, mouth-shredding crankiness, English muffins just aren’t my cup of tea. And then I met the Milk and Honey English Muffin at The Bread Box. It’s as supple as ciabatta, as spongy as focaccia, as evenly toasty as an artisan pizza crust. It’s wider, softer and sweeter, the perfect platform for a breakfast sandwich that’s just as much of an overachiever.
The eggs were more than scrambled; they were souffléd in two thick bouncy-house circles as wide as the muffins and finished with melted cheddar and thick cowboy bacon with lettuce and tomatoes. For $8.95 with a cup of fresh fruit, it’s not just the best breakfast sandwich I’ve written about this year, it’s one of the strongest values.
A breakfast sandwich includes bacon, egg, sharp cheddar, spring mix and tomato on a housemade English muffin with a side of fruit at The Bread Box at The Alley on Bitters shopping center in San Antonio.
Mike Sutter/StaffOther sandwiches: Focaccia bread with more air pockets than Amazon bubble wrap laid a strong foundation for the Southwest Turkey Sandwich ($14.95 with chips, cookie and iced tea). No lesser bread could have handled the parfait layering of roasted turkey, black beans, cheddar, bacon, avocado, spring mix and tomato, all of it draped in a chipotle dressing that finally let turkey hang out with the cool sandwich kids.
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Tina Kent’s time with her mom gave her the chops to pull off a banh mi sandwich ($14.95 with chips, cookie and iced tea) with the big flavors of its Vietnamese inspiration, starting with aromatic, juicy grilled chicken with lemongrass marinade. The banh mi flag unfurled all the way with a tangle of cilantro, pickled carrots and cucumbers, built on crusty French bread baked in-house.
Finally — finally — I’ve found a chicken salad sandwich ($14.95 with chips, cookie and iced tea) that lets me use the good adjectives. Adjectives like lush, creamy, righteously sweet and whatever you say about dill (dilly?). They sell the honey wheat seed bread by the loaf. Buy it.
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Location: 555 W. Bitters Road, Suite 115 at The Alley on Bitters, 210- 277-8612, thebreadboxsa.com
Hours: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
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