Food review: Corned beef sandwich

Restaurant: Moishe's Pippic (San Francisco)
Food description: Hot corned beef sandwich on rye bread with spicy brown deli mustard and deli pickle
Food rating: 6.5 out of 10
Times ordered: 1

After being impressed by their pastrami, I put Moishe's corned beef to the test, as promised. The result? Good corned beef, as far as corned beef goes, but not nearly as tasty as the pastrami. The meat had flavor, but it was oh-so-boring and really relied on the mustard to help it do its job. The texture of the meat, however, was much much better than the pastrami, totally tender and no tough gristle to chew through. Very surprising, considering they are both made from the same brisket cut. I don't know, perhaps they are overcooking the pastrami or something? A simple mashup would solve everything: combining the texture of the corned beef with the flavor of the pastrami to create the Ultra Super Pastrami Deluxe. Oh yeah, wasn't I supposed to be talking about the corned beef? Well, there's not really much else to say, because why would I order this again when the pastrami was clearly better? Nuff said!! Oh actually, I heard they've got amazing beef brisket on Fridays only, so stay tuned for chapter 3...

Food review: Absinthe corned beef

Restaurant: Absinthe (San Francisco)
Food description: Corned beef hash served with two poached eggs atop grilled toast
Food rating: 8.5 out of 10
Times ordered: 1

Well, we really should have gone to Absinthe for brunch sooner, our meal was fantastic. I got the corned beef hash and it was the least tasty of our dishes (French Toast, and Pot o' Chocolate), and by least tasty I mean "still damn tasty!" The toast was great - toasted golden brown with a slight char on the edges. It was also very lightly buttered and it wasn't your run of the mill white bread, I think it was a french bread derivative. The eggs were poached perfectly with no runny whites while preserving the yummy liquid yolk so as to sop into the bread and hash. The corned beef was really the only part of the dish that I wish had been better. Don't get me wrong it was pretty good, extremely tender (broke apart at a touch) and well mixed with the potatos and herbs, but I had to say it lacked full flavor. It just didn't quite get there and was canceled by the herb flavors in the hash. If the corned beef had had more flavor I would have given this an 9. Overall we had a fantastic experience at Absinthe and are looking forward to going back. On a side note, it was actually less expensive than I thought it would be, we spent barely more than we might have at Home or something similar and the service was impeccable.