Paul Moulton
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This morning while reading thru the I love NE group, someone made a post about how good the pastrami sandwiches at this place are. I have been craving a good pastrami samich for a very long time, and I decided to give this place a try. As soon as I got home, I began to regret that decision. First and most importantly, the point of pastrami is to slice it THIN, but not too thin. At Least a sixteenth, but no more then three sixteenths of an inch thick is considered the perfect thickness. What I received on my samich was more like half inch or five eighths thick CHUNKS. YYYYYEAH.... not cool. Secondly, the rub or sauce that was used had some hot spice in it. That is NOT pastrami!! Pastrami has a black pepper type 'crust' on it. There is supposed to be NO capsaicin or any hot spices whatsoever in pastrami and there was definitely something spicy on/in my pastrami today. Besides all that, the pickles were very tasty and coupled with the meat, white sauce or cheese and bread, made for a very delicious, yet spicy sandwich. It definitely isn't a pastrami sandwich, and they need to stop calling it that; or make the pastrami and the pastrami whole sandwich correctly. This abomination cost me $15 and I tipped the very nice bartender guy $3. So, $18 total for a tasty samich, but it was definitely NOT a typical pastrami sandwich like I have had while living in Connecticut and while visiting Boston.