Chow “The Best Sandwiches in America”
posted by February 13 at 11:08 AM
onEsquire has listed the 39 best sandwiches to be found in the United States—and 5.13 percent of them hail from Seattle.
Best Porcetta: Salumi
The daily fresh-pulled mozzarella runs out before the line of customers at Salumi, started by Armandino Batali (Mario’s dad). Don’t let the curing bats of fennel-studded finocchiona dangling from meat hooks distract: You want the porchetta — braised-until-melting pork shoulder with peppers, carrots, and onions on a stout roll to soak up the profligate juices.
Best Cuban Meat Sandwich: Paseo
No place in Seattle could care less whether you come in than Paseo. The shoe-box shack has no sign, takes no credit. Has so few seats that devotees eat outside on the trunks of their cars. What keeps them returning? The milagro that is the Cuban meat sandwich: marinated, slow-cooked pork ganged into a baguette slathered with garlicky mayonnaise, then mounded again with cilantro, jalapeños, and fat O’s of caramelized onions. Seattle’s a long way from Cuba, but this sandwich erases every mile.
Congrats Seattle sandwich makers and sandwich eaters! Read the full Esquire list here.
Finally, please enjoy this well-travelled pic of a kitten eating an invisible sandwich.
Comments
you stole that sandwich pic from OUR blog!
http://www.sketchwich.com/
Don't forget Salumi's communal jug red. It is a magical place.
Is that cat a Scottish Fold?
McRib?!??!?!?!
Credibility gone.
1: Not quite--I don't have the Photoshop skills necessary to remove a pencil from a sandwich--but nice job with the segue/plug. But to keep you from feeling violated, I've replaced the original pic with a prettier photos.com pic.
David: I was just kidding and didn't mean to make you change your post (I think our sandwich pic came from the same clip art source originally, too). Feel free to delete my rude plugging and comments.
Portland finally earns some of the love it gets on the Slog
(Thanks for the clarification, Sketchwich, but it's all good, as '90s Ecstasy casualties used to say...)
Don't forget the Subway on Vashon Island!
Serious Eats has a great series on sandwiches from coast to coast: http://www.seriouseats.com/tags/eating_out/Serious%20Sandwiches
"McRib?!??!?!?!
Credibility gone."
I would say any sandwich that has THAT big of a cult following deserves recognition.
@6: Can I have a side of stent with that?
Part of me is happy that these local businesses are getting press for being awesome.
A larger part of me is pissed that I'm going to have to wait in an even longer line to satisfy my Paseo cravings.
Paseo is great.
But nothing beats a Hoagie at a home game at Swarthmore.
@6- to be fair though, the article is saying that no one makes a better McRib than McDonalds. Which means I make the best blobbity blick blam sandwich in the world!
correction- I meant @10.
*pfft* A 'best sandwiches' list that doesn't include Maine Italians...
(midway down the page)
I had a dozen Fedex'd out here from Amato's in a cooler once.
@16, how much did that shipment run you? Oh, man do I miss those.
Sweet - thank you for the link, I used to work at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor many many years ago.
don't forget the drunken chicken at the Baguette Box.
Ragin' Cajun from The Other Coast Cafe.
The Firecracker from Tubs.
and the daily specials from the Delilah Bakery
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