We have two reactions every time someone brings up the Cuban-styled restaurant Paseo in Fremont. First, we remember what it smells like walking past the place. Their grills push some seriously delicious air out onto the sidewalk, and the sandwich tastes exactly like your nose promised it would. Second, we get pissed off because we can't think of another restaurant in the city that could care less whether you eat there or not. The place was closed for like three months this summer while the owner was on vacation. We stopped in three times during that vacation, smelling the smells, tasting the tastes and then finding the place dark and closed at one in the afternoon on a Saturday. Three times! When is this asshole going to get back from the beach and fire up the fucking grill! Ahem, we thought enough time had passed to give us a little perspective on this, but apparently not...

It's a cool place, with great food and it's a very neighborhoody island in an increasingly corporatized Fremont Ocean, but getting a sandwich from Paseo is like pulling teeth. We bring this up now because we recently came across another guy who recognizes the same attitude in Paseo. Since they refuse to do it themselves, he's put their menu online.