Excuse Me, This Salmon Is Still Alive…

Have you been busy the past weeks preparing for the upcoming holidays? Hopefully you have had time to explore your neighborhood and checked out a local sandwich shop. You know that those businesses appreciate your visit just as much as any retail store at this time of year.

Despite looking for gifts and preparing to fly back east for Christmas, I thought I would try one last sandwich before I left Los Angeles for a week, this time I took a recently mentioned recommendation of Roman’s in Sherman Oaks.

Now as you may know, I haven’t really eaten too many vegetarian sandwiches, or really many sandwiches that don’t involve a land animal, so I quickly jumped at the opportunity to eat the Salmon Sandwich when I saw it at the top of Roman’s menu.

I am a huge fan of salmon, especially when it is either smoked or grilled.

I am not a fan of lox. 

For those of you that don’t know what lox is, it’s a cured salmon filet and something that completely grosses me out due to the texture. I know it’s very popular with a lot of people, but it just does not fly with me as it seems like it’s still almost raw, though I don’t have a problem with sushi.

Well, that’s exactly what was on this sandwich.

Gross.

The “fish” was topped with marscapone cheese and fresh arugula on a delicious Italian roll. The cheese wasn’t terrible, but it didn’t add much to the sandwich. The arugula was fresh and tasty and the Italian roll was crispy on the outside and warm and fluffy on the inside.

But let’s face it Readers, I wasn’t going out last night for an arugula sandwich.

This has been my problem so far: I have not had good luck with sandwiches that do not contain red meat or poultry. Why? I have no idea. I love vegetarian restaurants here in Los Angeles, and I do love fish (especially salmon), so why have I had bad luck when it comes to these types of sandwiches?

SO I am reaching out to you to help with some more recommendations. You’ve all been excellent with suggestions in the past, so any help with a great fish or vegetarian sandwich would be an amazing help.

Your sandwich blogger of choice needs you, America. Will you help?

Until next week…

Salmon Sandwich
* Star
Roman’s
15100 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

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