best monte cristo ever!. my wife and i have been trying to visit the bigeggfor months, in order to try their monte cristo sandwich. the first time we ever tried a monte cristo was at the blue bayou restaurant at disneyland. obviously, every monte cristo we've tried since that day has not stood up to the ridiculously high quality of that disney meal.
that is, until today. we stopped by mississippi marketplace on a food cart crawl, and the first thing we ordered was a monte cristo sandwich. we were totally willing to wait twenty minutes for it to be made...and it was absolutely worth it.
at the big egg, a monte cristo is made with vanilla cardamom brioche french toast, containing black forest ham, gorgonzola cheese, maple glaze and topped with a dusting of powdered sugar. all three of us were smitten with the complex flavors of this amazing sandwich (even my non-pork eating sister!). it is both rich and subtle, intense and light, all around the perfect monte cristo sandwich.
we will definitely be back to try the other tasty breakfast options at the big egg.