Not quite a year later, I revisited Salem, VA and Macado’s Restaurant to try another Pastrami Reuben, with fries.

The sandwich was different.  It was a good sandwich, but it wasn’t the Pastrami Reuben that launched a thousand ships.  I wish I had taken a picture of the original experience.  I think the bread was different.  The way the pastrami was layered in the sandwich was different.  I wrote about the “large cut” french fries, well these were crinkle cut… and I know I would have said crinkle-cut, if they had been crinkle cut.  *Overall, the original experience was life changing, but this second visit wasn’t;-)

I can’t find any pictures of Macado’s french fries that aren’t crinkle-cut, but here is somewhat how I remember them from the original experience.  Rustic, rough cut… an expereince.

I do see from other Macado’s pictures that the pastrami was layered, not like the return experience.

Now that I look at the photo above, this looks more like corned beef (a true Reuben), but the pastrami was layered in a thick pile on the original sandwich.

And, there was a dill pickle, and a small cup of catchup which went well with the thick fries.

Here is what I had this time.