$5 Lunch for Two, Entrant # 3

 

The eternal search for the Great $5 Lunch For Two has found another entrant, to join Saigon Sandwich Shop and La Palma Mexicatessen. Tortas Los Picudos makes enormous Mexican sandwiches which sell for $5, and which feed two people easily. You can see the menu above -- go for the Guadalajara-style pierna desebrada -- basically pulled, shredded pork on a long grilled bolillo, spread with guacamole, jalapenos and probably some other stuff too.

Grease flies off the grill, which is packed with your lunch and everybody else's too. How they keep track of what's what is a mystery to El Gran Plotniko. If you back up too quickly after you give your order, you will knock the potato chips off the rack with your butt.

Tortas los Picudos is packed around lunchtime with all the different people who live in or on the neighborhood. English is spoken, in a manner of speaking. If you want to add on to your cost, they make really good strawberry licuados, smoothies, and they make fresh tropical juices too. This place is a find.