Saturday, March 7, 2015
La Espanola is a Spanish deli and sausage plant in Harbor City, 3 minutes from where I work. "www.laespanolameats.com", I have gone in and ordered a sandwich to go at lunch time and have bought food items here. But when I saw that Melting Pot Tours was having a "tour" of the facility I was interested. The public does not normally get to see where they make the sausages and the entire manufacturing facility.
We got to see and smell the sausages being cured in the drying rooms along with the grinders, mixers and stuffing machines. A lot of hand work goes into the manufacturing here. After hearing how they do everything I can understand how and why they price their products
After the touring we had a lunch of Paella. La Espanola makes Paella on Saturdays only. You must make a reservation because they only cook enough for those who call ahead. No leftovers here. With Paella we had plates of sausages and cheeses along with bread that import from Spain. It is par baked, frozen then shipped over. La Espanola keeps it frozen until they decide how many they need for a day and then bakes what is needed. This is the same bread they make their sandwiches with. Every table had a couple of bottles of Spanish wine to enjoy.
Alex, the manager gave us some "duck prosciutto" to try. They make it exclusively for an distributor and do not sell it direct. It was so good. Was told that Surfas may sell it so I will have to make a short trip down the freeway to look for it. They table next to ours hardly touched their plate of it so when they left I snagged it. Ate every last piece of it.
Interesting tout with Melting Pot. They do numerous "foodie" tours in the Los Angeles area. May try to do the "Thai Town" tour nect month.
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