Best of Europe Deli — Restaurant in California

This is America.

A jumbled speed bag filled with crushed dreams and gun powder, Frosted Flakes and Mike Tyson’s party favors.

A place where the rabbit hole only gets deeper and deeper, a country of old tired men peddling their lack of substance to a youth on the fringes of madness in society.

But it’s not without its comforts.

Through the hills leaving Los Angeles and into the barren desert landscape of a town that once was less of itself, there exists only one decent deli standing among the ashes of fast food drive through windows and mediocre Mexican restaurants.

As close as you’re going to get to a decent sandwich in this town and half a world away from the region it boasts its roots from, this is Best of Europe.

With shelves filled with oddball favorites like kippers in tomato sauce and German mustard, Best of Europe is the go to eatery for the discerning sandwich connoisseur in this part of the Mojave desert.

I shamelessly ordered a prosciutto di Parma (Mafioso style: olives, Amsterdam cheese, roasted tomato spread, and olive oil on toasted bread) and sat myself at one of just a few tables next to the counter, waiting for my name to be called.

Glorious: “having a striking beauty or splendor that evokes feelings of delighted admiration.”

I sit here in the truck, settled into a semi comfortable front seat of a Jeep covered in the remnants of what was.

I just murdered that sandwich.

It’s as close to a Sicilian style as can be had but well enough, it served its purpose, a flower in a vase at the end of spring.

Salty, briny, toasted, warm and cold, quite an eclectic mix and nothing short of what the doctor ordered.

The engine in my black beauty purrs and roars to life, this stop one of many on the road to my next meal.

Delicious and worth the drive, definitely a go to for the locals.

Two...

I’ve been coming here since I was a kid and it has always been my favorite sandwich shop. However, recently I’ve been having a lot of problems when I order here. The last two times I have ordered a sandwich they got my order wrong. I can’t stand mustard or mayo and I never order sandwiches with those condiments on it, yet they keep putting them on it when it doesn’t say anywhere on my order that I want that on my sandwich . A similar thing happened with my Fiance a couple months ago, too. We ordered sandwiches to go eat them at the park, got to the park and realized they gave us someone else’s sandwich. Then we go back and they give her her sandwich and we get home to find that they got her order wrong as well. She ended up just throwing it out, because it had stuff on it that she hates eating and we didn’t want to have to go back to the shop a second time. It’s a real shame because we usually love this place but now we are hesitant to come here because three orders of ours in the last month or so have been wrong. It just doesn’t make sense to add something to a sandwich that we didn’t order at all, there’s a reason we didn’t order it. For almost $20 a sandwich, the least they could do is actually read the order. Really hope they can turn it around because when they get it right, the...

What a sight for sore eyes! I'm from Montreal (east coast french canada) where delis, bakeries, cheese stores and sandwich shops are around every corner. Something I've sorely missed from my hometown is a place like Best of Europe.

Now from what I know, in comparison it should not rate 5 stars (not even close) but for this sad region of the desert, it's the only place short of driving to LA or Vegas where i can get raclette cheese, liverwurst (pâté de foie gras), roquefort cheese, camembert, real mustard and a good sandwich. So 5 stars in conjunction to where this store is located: Lancaster.

I really wished though that they had better bread (like a French baguette) and more options as they often run out of things. But that is to be expected since this sort of stores is not popular in the land of twinkies and cheap burgers... for an expatriate though, you'll be super happy to have discovered this place!

Edit: This time ordered one of the best sandwiches I ever had in my life: On sourdough roll, the Italian cold cuts mix with prosciutto, swiss cheese, deli mustard, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, pepperoncini peppers and...