ford's filling station

So me and Wifey were watching some sandwich making contest on Food Network, and the winner was Ben Ford, who runs Ford's Filling Station in Culver City. All his sandwiches looked amazing, so since we would be passing through L.A. on the way to a high school reunion, we decided to check it out.

We both ordered the Tortilla Soup.

It was okay, but in no way justified the 8 freaking dollars per bowl. In fact, what it reminded me of was Trader Joe's Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper soup, which you can pick up for a few bucks per box.

Being a sucker for anything with blue cheese and caramelized onions, I had to go with the Pub Burger (sorry for the horrendous pictures; outside + camera phone).



Again, it was okay. Not worth $15. The blue cheese/onion burger I recently had at Luc's Bistro in Poway was much, much better. Wifey disagreed. She liked this one way better than Luc's. She's wrong. Sorry, baby. The onion rings were spectacular, though. You could take a bite without pulling the entire onion out of its deep-fried-batter tube. Wifey had the fries, which were very In-N-Out-ish (i.e. awesome).

Total bill for a couple burgers and soup was over $50, which is a little ridiculous. It wouldn't be ridiculous if the food was something special, but it wasn't. It was merely good.