20 Amazing Sandwiches to Try This Year!
Reviews of the steak sandwich at Tusk Bar, the po' boy at Kjun, hot chicken at Peaches, vada pav at Chote Miya, cotechino at Misipasta. Plus: 13 "sandwich commandments"
I’ll have more to say about Los Angeles soon.
For now, I hope you read this essay by Khushbu Shah, about how we need to support the restaurants that are sacrificing so much to feed first responders, evacuees, and others. I hope you spend some time with Eater’s Kat Thompson, who writes about evacuating her home, while meditating on what was left behind. And I hope you read these missives from Hillary Dixler Canavan, about eating and cooking in Pasadena, and from Meghan McCarron, about life in Los Angeles right now.
If you can, please donate — either to relief organizations, or check individual restaurant websites to see if they’re collecting funds or selling gift cards.
Let’s keep things light today. What follows is a guide to some really amazing sandwiches. I tried all of these either last year or the first weeks of this year.
But first, here are some ideas I have on sandwiches, lol.
The Lo Times Thirteen Sandwich Commandments
This is subjective; we all grew up in different households and were raised on different sandwich-based values. No single sandwich philosophy has a monopoly on the truth.
One: Thou shalt not mock watery deli tomato. It plays a key role in refreshment on so many sandwiches. I love watery tomato. Except when I don’t.
Two: Watery tomato will make your BLT taste like sh!t.
Three: When ordering at a deli or a gourmet market, remember that mayo is better than 99 percent of the colorful squeeze bottle condiments that go by the name “aioli.”
Four: Actual aioli is wonderful on a sandwich, so if you tweet something dumb like “aioli is mayo that did a semester abroad,” you are disqualified from competition.