Bamboozled?

  The Bamboozle Cafe is the newest player in downtown Tampa trying to lure in hungry suits for lunch. They offer fresh rolls, noodle salads and sandwiches on toasted baguettes, all made to order with your choice of meats and veggies.   

  We started with the Traditional Vietnamese Roll, thin rice paper stuffed with steamed prawns, pork, vermicelli noodles, green leaf lettuce, cucumber, chives and mint. With a number of dipping sauces to choose from, it wasn't a bad way to start off. The Noodle Salad with Prawns was mediocre and had to be doused with dressing just to coax out a little flavor. But the daily special, five-spice bar-b-q pork sandwich (pictured above) hit the mark. Warm and flavorful, the pork rested between two halves of a perfectly toasted baguette. Could have done without the slaw like salad on top, it just got in the way. With no sides to go along with the sandwiches, we had to go back for round two of the Vietnamese Roll to feel satisfied enough to face the rest of the work day.