Belcampo is the only place in L.A. where I’ve found better pork than Marconda, although it was about three times the price! I don’t eat that much beef, but knowing that Huntington gets theirs from Hastings Ranch would have me getting that elsewhere too.
As for sausages, I live close enough to the northern end of Glendale to make regular runs to Schreiner’s. Between their German-style offerings, the Armenian/Eastern European ones at Jon’s, and Rosario’s splendid hand-made Italian ones at Roma Deli, I’ve got about more of that kind of stuff than I could ever eat.
The sandwich on the seeded rolls was not good; on the crusty rolls it was superb. Rosario simply got tired of cleaning up all the crust crumbs – delicious but messy as hell – and got the new softer rolls instead. We kinda had a fight about that, but then he had a whole behind-the-counter area to keep clean, whereas I just had a tabletop. He said I’d like it; well, I didn’t hate it, not like those tough rubbery seeded crusts, but it was merely as good as its innards.
I say I’ll take messy but delicious over not-messy and okay any day. But I don’t have a Health Department to worry about. Damn it anyway.
@ linus: Aside from the groceries, which are pricey but good, his sausage (which he makes every day, starting around 5 AM) is about the best I’ve had, and his marinated artichokes are damn good too. A lot of people line up to buy their cold cuts from him – he buys from the usual suppliers, but sells only the meats he’s tried and decided are the best – and I think that with the mortadella (also featured in The Sandwich) he nailed it. Years ago he was slicing some for a customer and he pulled off a sliver and handed it to me with a wink … it was like an incredibly rich, pork-and-mace-flavored breath on my tongue. It didn’t actually melt there but it gave that impression. I have to get a quarter-pound of that every now and then to make my own sandwiches with.
Well, I brought up the sausages at Roma in Pasadena (adding to why I didn’t need no steenkeeng Huntington Meats) and then linus asked about other things there besides The Sandwich (famous in many quarters), and then it kinda got out of hand. So Yeah, sorry.
We can all go back to 3rd and Fairfax now if you’d like.
Question: I haven’t been to GCM since it has become such a foodie Mecca. I know, I know… I’m on the late train. Do they have a central/communal eating area like Farmer’s? We were thinking of going for Father’s Day. It would be good if everyone could select their preferred meal, then all sit together.
The place was a mad house on Friday during lunch. Tables were hard to come by if you chose not to eat at a counter. The Eggslut line is also no joke. It was already long at 11:15AM, and serpentined around the stand by 11:40AM. I wasn’t game enough to try it since I had polished off an Egg Salad sandwich from EuroPane in Pasadena earlier that morning.
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there are tables downstairs too that not everybody knows about.
[/quote] Since it will be our first time, I think we’ll check out GCM on a non-holiday first. Thanks for the tip.
I know this has nothing to do with FM or GCM. But, what do you think of Wolf? I’m trying to please vegetarians, meat eaters & picky eaters who are sick of Mexican
another day.
