California Pastrami

Pastrami seems to be very popular in certain parts of the country mostly on the East Coast to the best of my knowledge. We recently got a place on the west side called California pastrami that opened where an Indian restaraunt used to be. So I am unsure if California is known for their pastrami, but I'm willing to suspend enough reality to eat a sandwich. As I've seen, heard, and read making pastrami is pretty difficult. It's a brisket that is cured in a salt type of solution so it a brisket that is made into corned beef with the curing, then packed with spices on the outside and then it is smoked. This process is labor intensive and takes about a week to do properly. I have not attempted to make pastrami, but making good pastrami seems to be a challenge. California Pastrami's decor is nothing spectacuatlar, but it is a small business with two locations, one in Santa Fe and one in Albuquerque. The best explination of California Pastrami is that it it a lunch counter that sort of specializes in selling pastrami sandwiches.

Pictured to the right is an order of the chili cheese fries. The chili cheese fries were good, but with that being said how the good fries covered in cheese and chili be bad. The fries were good. They were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. My friends and I ordered several items with seemed to provide a good sampling of what California Pastrami had to offer. Below and to the right is a Pastami hot sandwich.

Three out of five stars.

http://www.californiapastrami.com/