This document reviews the sandwich shop Bleubird in downtown Boise. It summarizes the unique dining experience at Bleubird, located in the former Fixx coffee shop space. Bleubird offers sandwiches, cheeses, and other dishes featuring bleu cheese. The staff are described as friendly. Customers keep returning to Bleubird for its quality food and service, with the speed of a sandwich shop but the quality of a fine restaurant.
1. December 16, 2013
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bleubird
John Engel
@EngelESPN
When choosing where to eat for lunch downtown, coffee
shops galore entice customers with discounted bagels and
specialtylattestocurbmiddayhunger.Buthavinglunchata
coffee shop is disrespectful to lunch time.
Even though options may be slim for an inexpensive
lunch stop downtown, this time it’s perfectly fine to be bleu.
Bleubird is an elegant, yet casual, downtown lunch stop
featuring sandwiches and other fine, yet affordable, dishes
headlined with bleu cheese.
Located in the former dwellings of the Fixx coffee shop
on 10th Street, Bleubird features a unique dining experi-
ence at a bar, where diners see their food made from fresh
ingredientsbeforetheireyes,oratoneofthemanywindow-
side tables throughout the two-level cafe.
Beer and wine is available, as well as the zest that only an
old-fashioned bottle of Coca-Cola can provide.
The friendly and laid back staff are as just as much of a
reason to visit Bleubird as their dozens of unpronounceable
fine cheeses. While enjoying my beautifully constructed
smoked pork sandwich, staff members used the cash regis-
tercomputertosharethelatestviralvideowithSarahKorn-
field, who co-owns Bleubird with her husband, Dave Kelly.
“Some of us are trying to get work done!” Kornfield
joked, with me dining just feet away at the bar.
Even for the less adventurous of diners, like myself, Bleu-
bird offers simple grilled cheese sandwiches and entrees
made with the same detail of its signature bleu cheese spe-
cialties.
Bleubird recently celebrated its first year since opening its
doors in August of 2012, and it’s obvious why customers
keep coming by. With the speed of Jimmy Johns, and the
quality of five-star restaurant, what’s not to love?
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Lance Moore
@LanceMoore07
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