Chicken Club

Sandwiches are the easiest snack: fast, perfectly comforting, and satisfying. Ever since I was old enough to order Champagne, the combination of a club sandwich and a great, slightly old, yeasty Champagne has been the perfect palliative for many trying moments. I had just arrived in a hotel, too tired or late to go out for dinner; I’ve been out to dinner in a strange city, the food was bad, I return and call room service for this perfect combo.

Unforgettable were the out all night in Hong Kong, the sun is rising over the harbor, yet another business lunch is to be followed by a heavy dinner, and when I finally made it back to the Mandarin Hotel, I know I can rely on its world-perfect twenty-four-hour room service and the BLT or chicken club on the menu. They are the night owls and the too-tired-to-go-to-dinner companion. The apotheosis of twenty-four-hour room service is the chicken club or its other version, the BLT.

Serves 2.