Anyone try this combo at THE HAT?

[ipsedixit]

Pastrami and roast beef combo sandwich, smothered in horseradish sauce and mustard.

Tried it yesterday and, surprisingly, it was quite good.

How come more places don't offer something like this?

[SauceSupreme]

There's a tiny deli in Pasadena next to Grant Park off of Cordova that makes a similar sandwich called a Buffalo Breath. Caltech used to buy them in bulk and sell them on campus. Red onions, too.

[nosh]

This combo works well at Togos as well. The roast beef cuts the unctiousness and saltiness of the pastrami but leaves the meatiness and heftiness of the sandwich. Good call.

[malibumike]

Is this a new sandwich, I dont see it on their website menu, is it the same price as the pastrami dip? Yes the #7 at Eastside is the best, roast beef and pastrami, marinari sauce, provoline cheese and cooked peppers. Umm!

[ipsedixit]

Special request. They added a $1.50 to the regular Pastrami Dip (so turned out to be about $8).

[2chez mike]

Never tried the combo but I like their roast beef dip. The packaged horseradish sauce is very good. I think it's Heinz.

[Will Owen]

Those packets of horseradish could make a Wellington boot taste wonderful, so The Hat's pastrami is a relative pushover...it's good for what it is, which is an ungodly lot of adequately edible stuff for fairly cheap. And please note that I am *not* sneering here; once in a while you just want to eat too much of some greasy salty fatty barn-scrapings, and so do I. Gotta keep the lovastatin justifying its existence somehow!

[Pei]

The Hat's pastrami sandwich, however mediocre the quality, is a powerful food. My cousin, when she was about 7, was very underweight and quite a picky eater. She saw our uncle eating a pastrami sandwich from The Hat, and refused to take a bite (as usual).

He left half of it in the room with her just to see if she'd take a bite or two of it. When he came back, the whole thing was gone and she had that glazed over expression we all know too well. How half a Hat sandwich fit into a 7 year old stomach, I still don't know.

[ipsedixit]

That's why the pastrami sandwich is "world famous"!

:-)

[Maxmillion]

oh, man -- that is a fantastic story!!

[Will Owen]

I coulda done that when I was seven...which is why I look like I do now!

Yes, lovely story. Thank you!

[kelvlam]

that's such a wonderful story :-)

[Pitchman]

#7 at Eastside Market. I don't get anything else there. Though they don't put horseradish on it. It's quite a sandwich, though I have to go vegetarian for a couple of meals after that to get the cholesterol back to a good level!

[ipsedixit]

Horseradish was my own addition. Burned through about 8 packets of self-serve horseradish sauce to properly "dress" my sandwich.

[malibumike]

You are so right, the #7 is the best sandwich i've ever had.