The Best Sandwiches — Restaurant in San Jose

This was my first time trying this place and I'm going to give my honest opinion. For the price you really get a heavy portion. No complaints there. I read a ton of reviews about the Torta Cubana so that's what I tried. It honestly was just ok, I've had better tortas from Mexico Bakery. The green cilantro sauce they give you really saves the sandwich. Without the sauce, the torta as a standalone is just ok. Not bad, not great. The chicken and beef empanadas were also just ok, but to be fair I really don't have anything to compare it to because I don't typically eat empanadas. The crust of the empanadas was crispy and flavorful but the inside was just lacking something, maybe salt? However the fried plantains it comes with was 10/10 and when you take a bite of the crispy empanada and a bite of the plantains it was a nice combo. They gave me another sauce, like a sweet mayo, which I really enjoyed, and also some pickled red onions, that were also delicious. They definitely have great sauces, and perhaps I'm just a sauce person but they were spot on with those. I licked the cups the sauces come in clean, that's how good they were. I probably won't go back, but I also think you should try it for yourself. We do all have different palates...

I rolled in at just before 11:00am on a Saturday morning--there were a few people in line in front of me, but it wasn't an especially busy line. My wife and I ordered a Torta Mexicana, a Carnitas Torta, and a side of onion rings to go. Two sandwiches and a side. Add two canned sodas and a bag of chips and it came to just over $40.

We didn't get our food until 11:50am. I can understand a place having trouble keeping pace with unexpected rushes, but again, while the place was far from dead, it didn't strike me as particularly busy. A 50 minute wait at a counter service sandwich shop is ridiculous.

But I have no trouble waiting for good food! Unfortunately, the $4 side of onion rings included a whopping five onion rings. 80 cents an onion ring (these are not particularly large onion rings). And the worst part? They forgot the carnitas on the Carnitas Torta! Am I supposed to unwrap and inspect my sandwiches before I leave with my to go order?

If you have an hour to kill to roll the dice on a sandwich that may or may not have its meat included and onion rings at 80 cents each, knock yourself out. But I wish I'd known all of this before I'd flushed an hour of my weekend...

We came today 5/11 and ordered 11 sandwiches. The 4 I saw first hand were not the quality we are used to getting from the Milpitas location. There was an excessive amount of greens and very little filling. The vegan sandwich on the menu shows a chicken breast - we assumed it was a fake meat but when we got the sandwich it was just veggies and not an abundance. I should've taken a photo of all of them but it was a Mother's Day gathering and I didn't want to bother everyone with photos. The tuna sandwich was thick slices of bread, a ton of greens, and just a thin layer of tuna. The egg salad had so many greens I had to pull them off to be able to bite the sandwich and the amount of egg salad was sad. The pastrami was 'ok'. The meat wasn't fatty but didn't have much flavor. Nothing in the sandwich stood out or dominated. It was just 'ok'. The ingredients were fresh but it was just missing today. We gave them an hour to make the sandwiches and it wasn't that busy when we ordered. We'll give them another try but I think we may need to stick with the Milpitas location for...