The Great Burbank Deli Hunt – Part 4

Greetings, dearest Readers!

I hope that the Sandwich Gods have treated you this past week to deliciousness as I further retell my tale of trekking through the city of Burbank.

The one thing I’ve been noticing while writing these blog posts is that Burbank, for being a small suburban town, is packed to the gills with great places to eat. It’s a shame that more people do not have reasons to drive up to Burbank on the regular, as there are so many culinary gems in this town, it’s hard to count them all.

Another shop that @818NewGuy visited was Tony’s Market, but this wasn’t a pre-planned trip.

A few of the shops that we had tried to visit on this day were closed, and instead of giving up and going home, I did a random search through Yelp and this place popped up.

Good thing I did, because compared to the other shops we visited, this was out of the way, and a place we wouldn’t have come across casually.

Dom Manente was behind the counter when we arrived and was very talkative not only to us, but all of his regulars who came through the door on our visit. It’s always great to have a rapport with the people at your favorite shop, and Dom was just further proof of that.

He took the time to suggest some sandwiches, gave a little history on the shop and just talked about our journey with us. In the end though, we ended up ordering the pastrami compared to the many other sandwiches that he offered up as top choices.

Heading to a local park, we sat down and sampled this sandwich from Tony’s Market. Hands down, this is one of the best pastrami sandwiches out there. Biting into it, the only way to describe the meat in this packed sandwich is buttery.

The meat had been cooked and marinated for so long that the fat had mostly melted away, lending its buttery flavor to the rest of the meat, and did not leave it even remotely dry.

Tender and lending its usual marinated spice flavor to the rest of the sandwich, it is hard to remember even tasting anything else. Sure there was mustard, sure there were pickles, and absolutely there was a roll that stayed together until the end, but my mind was solely concentrating on the delicious pastrami.

It is worth the trip to North Burbank for this sandwich alone. If you’re a fan of the cured meat, then I highly suggest you take a little drive to this part of the valley just to meet Dom and try one of his best sandwiches.

And so ends another week of touring Burbank’s sandwich offerings. One more to go in this series, but if you’re in the area, don’t just limit yourself to these shops I’ve mentioned. Always explore on your own as well.

In other non-sandwich related news, I will be skydiving tomorrow for my 30th birthday. If it were at all possible, I’d jump with a sandwich for the blog’s new logo. Sadly i think any bread would be annihilated by falling at 120 mph.

Until next week, Readers…

Pastrami Sandwich
**** Stars
Tony’s Market
2813 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91504