@akritenbrink - pupusas do not count as sandwiches but they are awesome so they are more than welcomed in this discussion. welcome pupusas. also, your yelp link isn't working.
@Travis - dude that mamma llama place looks good! menu seems all over the place (in a good way). we have several Ike's up here. it's good but i'm not crazy about it. kinda lost a step when they started expanding and getting more chainy (god, I sounded like that d-bag hipster that 'use to like that band before they got all corporate')
Yeah, man. I love Mamma Llama. I haven't done much aside from coffee and various sandwiches (it's also very nice that they have a nice beer selection), but some of those plates look pretty great. I wonder if that's a sort of dinner menu or something new because I never remember seeing a more expanded menu in the past. I'm tellin ya. this may have been the best sandwich I ever had (copied from the menu online "Roast beef, bacon, carmelized onion, cream cheese, tomato, fresh jalapeno, melted provolone, avocado, sweet & tangy llama sauce, all on Hawaiian bread").
I can definitely dig the "chain-ification" of a place like Ikes diminishing the quality. I can say that when we went to break in the one in L.A. recently the sandwich was amazing, but the selection wasn't quite as wild as I vaguely remembered from our trip to SF many years ago. I will give them though that they put the cream cheese for my wife's sandwich on in slices, which is a total baller move. Anyhoo, I totally get it. There is this really cool vegetarian place in Ventura called Nature's Grill that that happened with. It was this great, unique singular restaurant and now there are like 10-15 of them scattered around the county (and perhaps further, I don't know) and the food is mostly the same, but not quite. I mean, I still like it a lot, but it's not as special and it seems to be a little bit lesser. I don't know. I do get where you're coming from though. https://www.yelp.com/biz/natures-grill-and-juice-bar-ventura
@akritenbrink yeah pupusas to me are like the platypus of the food kingdom. Can't help you there. But if you feel it's a sandwich, then it's a sandwich! I love pupusas. And pupuseria is fun to say.
Very happy with my lunch choice today; torta de carnitas from the local taco truck.
Oh yeah! That's the good stuff, right there. Nice!
RE: Papusas, they are the ones that are kind of like hot pockets, right?
Ok.. Sure! Lol. Basically it's a ball of masa with a filling and they flatten it and cook it.
yeah that! soooo good! they're El Salvadorian. then there's Arepa's which are Colombian and are sock blowing! the best jerry! the best! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arepa
i talked to my mom last night and spent a good 10 minutes on how mexicans say french fries in spanish.. i was like 'pappas fritas. duh mom!' and she was like 'no mijo. creo es 'papas a la francesa'. pos es lo que dijo la novela...' i was dying!
it's not you're traditional bacon. its more like intense pork belly. there's a Filipino diner i go to.. 2 eggs over easy, rice and tocino. hmm mmm mmm!
@Chinaski It was just decent enough that I thought to myself "horseradish won't turn this from good to great, and it's not bad enough to turn it from bad to okay." Would have been like trading a 2013 Honda in for a 2017 Kia.
@Chinaski Okay. It wasn't fresh enough, but not stale. Meat was good, but again, not great. They did wrap the provologne up in the meat before heating, which was a nice touch. The aus jus was solid as well. I'm starting to get angry about this.
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https://www.yelp.com/biz/little-lucca-specialty-sandwich-shop-south-san-francisco
https://www.yelp.com/biz/old-school-sandwiches-and-salads-simi-valley
https://www.yelp.com/biz/mamma-llama-eatery-and-cafe-weaverville?osq=mama+llama
https://www.yelp.com/biz/ikes-place-los-angeles-2
@Travis - dude that mamma llama place looks good! menu seems all over the place (in a good way). we have several Ike's up here. it's good but i'm not crazy about it. kinda lost a step when they started expanding and getting more chainy (god, I sounded like that d-bag hipster that 'use to like that band before they got all corporate')
I can definitely dig the "chain-ification" of a place like Ikes diminishing the quality. I can say that when we went to break in the one in L.A. recently the sandwich was amazing, but the selection wasn't quite as wild as I vaguely remembered from our trip to SF many years ago. I will give them though that they put the cream cheese for my wife's sandwich on in slices, which is a total baller move. Anyhoo, I totally get it. There is this really cool vegetarian place in Ventura called Nature's Grill that that happened with. It was this great, unique singular restaurant and now there are like 10-15 of them scattered around the county (and perhaps further, I don't know) and the food is mostly the same, but not quite. I mean, I still like it a lot, but it's not as special and it seems to be a little bit lesser. I don't know. I do get where you're coming from though.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/natures-grill-and-juice-bar-ventura
@akritenbrink yeah pupusas to me are like the platypus of the food kingdom. Can't help you there. But if you feel it's a sandwich, then it's a sandwich! I love pupusas. And pupuseria is fun to say.
RE: Papusas, they are the ones that are kind of like hot pockets, right?
i couldn't agree more. and a meh french dip is a terrible mistake