Shipwreck Cafe

My top site for quality cafe food. I give this place double thumbs up. Next time I'll be back with my coworkers. The place has a nice atmosphere.

Clean ,pleasant personnel and a good sandwich. The side dish of cucumber salad was just so so. The place was busy with take out orders but we got our food promptly. Freshly made and good choices.

I have always wanted to try this restaurant but didn't want to drive all the way downtown so when I saw the store listed on the sign outside the Kleberg bank office building and it was in my neighborhood, I just had to stop in and try. This was simple to find as it's located just past the elevators right off the front lobby. I wasn't sure what to expect but I was hoping to find a gourmet sandwich shop and nothing like most sandwich shops' processed meals. I was a little apprehensive about dining in the middle of a business lobby but I found a small table off to the side and once this place filled up with diners, it was quite comfortable and not so unusual or odd feeling being in a bank building lobby. The menu board is a large sign posted along one wall or also the entire wall of the dining room is the more decorative painted chalkboard style rendition of the same menu. I ordered a Cubano sandwich originally but they actually had a version called the Carolina Cuban on special so I changed my order to the special of the day. The sandwich was freshly prepared and had mustard, sweet pickle slices, thinly sliced ham, smoked pulled pork, cheddar cheese and was pressed on a toasted long roll and served hot. This was served on a real china plate rather than plastic or paper and there were real metal dining utensils instead of plastic sporks. It came with one side and I chose the curry rice salad. This was delicious! The meats were full muscle meats and not chopped pressed formed processed lunch meats. The bread was fresh and soft but crispy toasted on the outside and it was a generous portion. Not Jason's Deli sized portions where you can only eat half a sandwich, but certainly a healthy sized portion that wasn't skimpy. The curry rice salad had yellow curry, sunflower seeds, raisins and an onion flavor that I think was chives or green onion because it was very mild and only noticeable in a few bites. I loved every single bite of this meal. This was indeed a gourmet sandwich and it was several steps above Subway and the like that serve processed formed lunch meats instead. I much preferred this meal. I also tried the carrot cake. Yum. That was delicious as well and tasted homemade rather than a prepacked processed frozen cake that was thawed and served like so many places serve. Peach tea and plain ice tea were both available in serve yourself containers in the dining area. Overall, this was a win from first bite to last.