Cafe Paloma‘s delectable eggplant panino. The Stranger
As someone who’s worked in a cafe, I can tell you that panini should generally be avoided. Panini grills hide a multitude of kitchen sins. In cafes that don’t have full kitchens, employees just slap together a bunch of generic ingredients out of plastic bags in the back room, soak the whole thing in oil, and then grill it to the point of unrecognizability, in the hopes that you won’t notice the mediocrity they’re serving you…