About This Project
A personal tracker for the weekly specials at Cabalar - my favorite local restaurant in Lancaster City.
About Tom
I'm Tom — a Lancaster-based software engineer and sandwich aficionado. I've been ordering the Cabalar weekly special almost religiously since the summer of 2021. That's over 200 orders and somewhere north of $6,000 spent in pursuit of the perfect sandwich.
I built this tracker to keep a record of every special I've tried and to share my rankings with anyone curious about what to order. My top 10 are the ones I'd order again in a heartbeat — but honestly, even the ones that don't make the list are still amazing.
I also run a local software consultancy — Teknologist.
How This Site Works
- 1.Every week, Cabalar drops a new special on Thursday. I track each one here — name, category, date served, and how many times it's appeared.
- 2.Sign in to allocate your 56 votes across any specials you've tried. Stack them on your all-time favorites or spread them around — it's up to you. You earn one new vote every time a new special is added to the tracker, so the longer you stick around, the more say you have. Your votes are private, but they feed into the Community Top 10 — a live ranking of the specials people love most.
- 3.Your personal top 10 is built from how you allocate your votes and is visible only to you, unless you decide to make it public. My top 10 is public — I've tried an irresponsible number of these and as the person who built this site I'm going to use that power to impose my opinions on you.
- 4.Repeat specials are tracked so you can see how many times a special has been served, when it's likely to return, and which ones have made it onto the permanent menu.
Try it out — this is the voting component you'll find on every special:
Birria Grilled Cheese
Braised beef birria, melted oaxacan cheese, consommé dipping broth
Have questions?
Why sign in? Who is Tom? All answered.
Disclaimer
This website is an unofficial fan project and personal side project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cabalar or its owners. All opinions, reviews, and ratings expressed here are my own personal views and do not represent the views of Cabalar.
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