Nestled in a Hollywood strip mall, Sahag’s Basturma is a quaint family-run deli serving up mouthwatering Armenian sandwiches and homemade cured meats.
"This Armenian market in East Hollywood is my go-to when I’m making basturma sandwiches. Their basturma - salty cured beef - is sliced so thin it literally melts in your mouth, and goes great in a sandwich with some pickles and tomatoes." - brant cox, kat hong, brett keating, james montgomery
"A tiny Armenian deli on Hollywood, Sahag’s Basturma is exactly the kind of sandwich spot that everyone needs in their neighborhood. They specialize in two kinds of sandwiches: one with basturma, Armenian-style meat that gives bresaola a run for its money as our favorite cured beef, and another with soujouk, spicy Armenian sausage. Both are excellent, but we prefer the soujouk, since its hot pepper and garlic spices come through best on the white sub roll. All their sandwiches are less than $10, so well within your budget if you work at Kaiser and want to walk over for a quick lunch." - brant cox, nikko duren
"A parking space-sized Armenian deli in East Hollywood, Sahag’s Basturma specializes in cured meats they make in-house. You’ve got two options here—soujouk, a dried, spiced sausage—and basturma, a cured beef that’s heavily spiced and packed with flavor. We prefer the soujouk sandwich, since its hot pepper and garlic spices are especially pungent on the sub roll it comes on, but you really can’t go wrong with either. Sahag’s is the kind of sandwich spot that everyone wished they had in their neighborhood. Pickup only." - brant cox, sylvio martins
"A tiny Armenian deli on Hollywood, Sahag’s Basturma is exactly the kind of sandwich spot that everyone needs in their neighborhood. They specialize in two kinds of sandwiches: Basturma, Armenian-style meat that gives bresaola a run for its money as our favorite cured beef, and soujouk, spicy Armenian sausage. We prefer the soujouk sandwich, since its hot pepper and garlic spices come through best on the white sub roll it’s served on. Their sandwiches are less than $10, so well within your budget if you work at Kaiser and want to walk over for a quick lunch." - Brett Keating
"At Sahag’s Basturma, inside a Los Angeles strip mall, there’s a cured-meat master craftsman: Harry Tashyan. His family, originally from Kayseri, in modern-day Turkey, has been in the basturma business for over 300 years." - Sonia Chopra
