Has it really been over five years since the world shut down?
Time is certainly a cruel mistress, and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, you were excused if you wondered what day it was, how long since you’d left the house or if it was too early to start drinking (answer: no). We all have memories of how we adapted to a strange version of the new normal.
For Rich Vana at The Heritage Table in Frisco, the limits on gathering in public hit his restaurant hard, like many others. Near the end of 2020, Vana shut the doors on his dining room and turned the restaurant into a to-go sandwich and provisions shop, at which time a new creation was born: The Impractical Sandwich, so named because the detail the team put into this creation were impractical for most people to do at home. In addition to brown-bag lunches and an eclectic menu of sandwiches, the shop also sold meats, sauces, spreads and soups for takeout by the pint and pound…