{"id":313,"date":"2016-05-22T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-06-05T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:00:23","slug":"alta-strada-makes-a-messy-eggplant-parm-sandwich-into-a-wardrobe-friendly-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/alta-strada-makes-a-messy-eggplant-parm-sandwich-into-a-wardrobe-friendly-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alta Strada makes a messy eggplant parm sandwich into a wardrobe-friendly lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a0Crunchy\u00a0eggplant parm sandwich<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Alta Strada,\u00a0465 K St. NW.\u00a0202-629-4662.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altastrada-cityvista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">altastrada-cityvista.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0$10<\/p>\n<p>How can you not love a good eggplant Parmesan sandwich? Still, the versions that most of us know involve\u00a0marinara sauce that drips with every bite, and equally challenging strands of gooey\u00a0mozzarella cheese. Unless you are prone to carrying around a bib or have a warehouse-store supply of Tide to Go, this is typically an indulgence best enjoyed\u00a0while wearing an old T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Until now!<\/p>\n<p>Alta Strada&#8217;s eggplant parm sandwich, served only for lunch at Michael Schlow&#8217;s new restaurant in\u00a0City Vista, is the perfect workday solution for those of us who prefer\u00a0our clothes not look like a tomato-based Jackson Pollock. Instead of a lake of marinara, here you get a tasteful yet restrained application of the restaurant&#8217;s spicy tomato basil sauce, plus basil-marinated cherry tomatoes for some fresh, sweet and acidic pop. Thinly sliced Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese &#8212; on\u00a0<em>both<\/em>\u00a0sides of the ciabatta bread, huzzah &#8212; stands in for gooey mozzarella.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/going-out-guide\/wp\/2016\/05\/18\/alta-strada-makes-a-messy-eggplant-parm-sandwich-into-a-wardrobe-friendly-lunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article on the Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Not your pace? 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Price:\u00a0$10 How can you not love a good eggplant Parmesan sandwich? Still, the versions that most of us know involve\u00a0marinara sauce that drips with every bite, and equally challenging strands of gooey\u00a0mozzarella cheese. Unless you are prone to carrying around a bib or have a warehouse-store supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[158,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/imrsSandwich.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-53","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}