Where are you, you juicy, chickeny, delicious bastards?

Mind the step.  No, really; mind the step…

Sandwich	Chicken Wrap
Venue	Little Dorritt, 11 Park Street, London, SE1 9AB
Price	£4.30
Basic Ingredients	Tortilla, mayonnaise, sweet chilli sauce, rocket, tomato, cucumber, raw onion, roast chicken slices.  Lots of roast chicken slices…
My Ingredients	Tortilla, mayonnaise, hot pepper sauce, Tabasco, rocket, tomato, cucumber, roast chicken slices.  Lots of roast chicken slices…

I always wanted this to be the first sandwich review on here, because it’s just such a damn fantastic sandwich.  Little Dorritt is a lovely looking  little sandwich place, just off Borough Market on Park Street, next to the Paul Smith shop.  It’s got a glass sneeze guard with pre-prepared fillings behind it, a large selection of breads, a cast iron jacket potato oven thing, a hot plate and toasting devices behind the staff and a fridge full of drinks next to a display unit of crisps.  If you had a standard checklist for a sandwich shop, it gets ticks the whole way down.  Add in ‘a few tables, chairs and stools for those who might want to sit in’ and we are complete!

Despite its proximity, it hasn’t gone the way of Borough Market; i.e. charging eye-watering amounts for reasonably good food.  It just goes about its business, making good, solid, dependable sandwiches at affordable prices.  Until, that is, you try this bad boy of a chicken wrap.

In a David and Goliath moment, Diet Coke

felled the mighty chicken wrap

The highlight here is the amount of chicken in each wrap.  Watching through the glass, you see your warmed tortilla piled up with sauce and garnish and then the warmed chicken gets transferred from the hot plate to the wrap.  After the second lot goes on, you start to think that this is a good sandwich.  And then more arrives.  And more.  And still more.  Finally when he stops and they attempt to, errr, wrap your wrap, you’re struggling to contain your glee at the chickenfest that lies ahead.

If you’re looking for a neat, tightly wrapped cylinder of a sandwich, this is not for you; M&S might be more your thang.  This is a wrap doing its damnedest to hang on to its filling, but holding its hands up and accepting that some of that mountain of chicken will just have to spill out the top.

The first bite.  Aww yisssssss

The Tasting

And so it begins…

The tortilla is soft and warm.  Let's be honest, it’s difficult to get a tortilla wrong.

The chicken is warm and juicy and moist and is clearly the hero of the sandwich.  Absolutely packed full of the stuff, easily around 70% of each and every bite.

The salad is, well it’s salad, you don’t need me to tell you what salad’s like.  It’s fresh, it’s crisp and it’s cool and does what salad’s there to do.

The mayo, hot sauce and Tabasco combine to make a creamy, fiery sauce of goodness that gives a delicious kick with every bite.

It’s meaty, fresh, warming and delicious.  The juiciness of the chicken is evident throughout the sandwich.  It holds its shape, only threatening to lose it in the last couple of bites, when the sauce and chicken juices finally take their toll on the structural integrity.  This is why we started eating wraps in the first place, this is good.

In fact, this is why lunchtimes were invented.  This puts poor sandwiches in their place.  This makes me realise what a lunchtime sandwich should be.

No chickens were harmed in the making of this wrap

 And in case you think I’m overcooking it on the filling, here’s a look at the midsection.

Did I stutter??

£4.30 for this?  I couldn’t make it for that at home.  Shut up and take my money!!!!