Earle’s Delicatessen

I guess I’ve eluded Earle’s for the longest time now.  I worked for the #2 Player in Makati for quite some time and never had the chance¹ to walk 5 minutes, place an order for a sandwich, walk back another 5 minutes to my desk.  My bad.  And from the time that I got out, I never really wanted to go back to Makati². Anytime of the week, it really does.  Eventually, I was in the area and made a pit stop.

I’ve made no effort to hide that I love cured meat and that really made picking an order quite difficult.  I have the capacity of about 0.5 person’s stomach with the desire to get at least 3 sandwiches plus one for take-out.  I ended up picking Classic Italian.

The Classic Italian is made up of cheese, onions, salami pepperoni, lettuce, tomato, and ham.  You can pick from a choice of whole wheat bread or a French baguette.  I chose the whole wheat for this precisely because the other sandwich we ordered would be in a baguette.  Overall, not bad.  But not as great as I hoped it to be. But for P145, you can’t go wrong with this.  Fairly-priced for good quality.

You gotta have the Peach Iced Tea with this.  Reminds me of the old Aquarius canned iced tea that I used to love as a kid, but better.  You can add around P50 to any sandwich and you get the iced tea plus a bag of Lay’s.  Not bad, I guess, even if I’m not such a fan of Lay’s chips.

My sister got a BLT, which is your basic bacon, lettuce and tomato. A BLT shouldn’t cost that much but for they use really good Canadian bacon — smokey and clearly the star of the show (as it should) amidst all the ingredients.  The BLT came in a French baguette.  I’d say you can’t go wrong with either types of bread. Veggies were fresh, but if not for the bacon, it’s really just a pretty decent BLT.

We wanted to try at least one of the sausages³ so we went for the Pepperoni Grilled Sausage.  I’d say it’s nothing extraordinary, but it’s pretty good.  The Pepperoni Sausage had a kick of spice, but beyond that, it really didn’t taste anything like pepperoni.  The casing’s a bit tough, but this is a pretty damn good sausage even if you changed the name to just Pepperoni Grilled Sausage.

I was a bit disappointed with the Roast Beef Sandwich.  Came with roast beef, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, white onions, and an aioli dressing.  I found the roast beef a bit dry.

I did love the Salami Milano, though. It’s become my go-to every single time.  It’s about 2-3 salamis on a ciabatta bread with arugula leaves and some cream cheese and it’s awesome.  A bit more expensive than most of the items, but worth it IMHO.

The main complaint about Earle’s (specifically the Makati / Columns branch) is really the terrible turrible⁴ service.  Apparently, to prepare a cold sandwich⁵, it takes them anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes.  The Ortigas branch was OK, though.  The parking rate⁶ was really the worst part of it.  On a side note, the party platters look really good.

Earle’s Delicatessen 2011-09-07

guess I’ve eluded Earle’s for the longest time now.  I worked for the #2 Player in Makati for quite some time and never had the chance to walk 5 minutes, place an order for a sandwich, walk back another 5 minutes to my desk.  My bad.  And from the time that I got out, I …