Review: The Noble Pig

The Noble Pig has been a destination for breakfast and lunch for Michelle and I for the past few months. We go there on average about once a weekand have gotten a chance to chat with the staff quite a bit. Their friendly attitude is outstanding.

As the name would imply, most of the sandwiches have a pork theme. The signature sandwich "The Noble Pig" is so amazingly flavorful my biggest complaint is that it might have to many meats on it. The BLT is not your typical crunch back lettuce and tomato but a gourmet sandwich on homemade bread with fresh tomatoes lettuce and 16 hour slow smoked pork belly. The meat reminds me more of a smoked brisket in cut and texture than bacon, but the flavor... This is probably the best sandwich on the lunch menu that involves pork. The other gem in my mind there is the deviled egg sandwich. They toast their homemade bread and serve you deviled eggs as the main ingredient. As much as I love their lunch menu I generally get breakfast. There is nothing special about putting together a fried egg, cheese potato and sausage sandwich unless you do it the way that they do at the Noble Pig. This is the best breakfast sandwich I have had. Michelle usually gets their oatmeal for breakfast which again sounds mundane until you dig in and taste the spectacular blueberry compote that they serve on top of the mug of oatmeal and the 5-spice twist in the oatmeal itself with a little bit of melting butter is fantastic.

Their soup changes as they run out and have to bring in a new pot so I can't tell you much about what there might be there at any given time but so far I have to say that the soups are amongst the best I have had in Austin. I was particularly in love with the tomato basil that was available on out last visit.

If you find yourself in North Austin and hungry this would be my first stop. They are a bit out of the way and hard to find thanks to a couple of trees in the small parking lot but the hunt is well worth it.

One more thought before I save this... 16 HOUR SMOKED BACON!!!!!!!!!!!