Paseo in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Carribean and cuban food. The sandwiches are unbelievable. Like 4 small tables, cash only and a line that goes out the door and down the block lunch and dinner. Often by 6pm their either out of bread or the cubano sauce and your all done. They close every year from late december to february so they can go back to the islands!
heres the write up from Esquire magazine's "Best Sandwiches in America" (Feb16th 08)
Paseo, Seattle
"No place in Seattle could care less whether you come in than Paseo. The shoe-box shack has no sign, takes no credit. Has so few seats that devotees eat outside on the trunks of their cars. What keeps them returning? The milagro that is the Cuban meat sandwich: marinated, slow-cooked pork ganged into a baguette slathered with garlicky mayonnaise, then mounded again with cilantro, jalapeños, and fat O’s of caramelized onions. Seattle’s a long way from Cuba, but this sandwich erases every mile. (4225 Fremont Avenue North; 206-545-7440)"
Luckily this is less than two blocks from my apt
