Saturday, October 3, 2009
Alidoro (105 Sullivan St, between spring and prince) is a little nook-and-cranny shop packed with delicious, lots and lots of delicious. It’s got tiny sandwich counter and the rest of the closet is decorated like an apartment (there are shelves of DVDs, music and who can forget the ceramic dogs and cats). How very [...]
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Sanpanino fancies itself some kind of religious sandwich icon and as much as I want to believe, as much as I have sandwich faith, it’s not quite worthy. It’s another adorable tiny sandwich shop (and honorably so). With barely enough standing room for more than a handful of customers, most of the place is taken [...]
Like many amazing sandwich shops, Lamazou Deli (370 Third Avenue @ 27th Street) isn’t really a sandwich shop. It’s real focus is selling cheese, meat and and other assorted, often imported goodies (like delicious hit cookies). Sandwiches aren’t the main focus of this deli and they should be — they are fantastic. They mix their [...]
It’s wrong, I know. I went to Philadelphia and willfully ignored the siren call of the cheesesteak. But it wasn’t in vain. I had a higher calling – a sandwich that, to me, sounded much more appealing.
The Reading Terminal Market (1151-1183 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA) is a food paradise. You’ve got your Amish apple dumplings, [...]
Domenic’s Italian Bakery and Deli (987 Main St. Waltham, MA 02451) is incredible. On an unassuming block, in an unassuming deli, incredible sandwiches are made. Like Grandaisy, Domenic’s makes their own bread. This magical bread pushes their good-but-not-incredible sandwiches straight over the cliff to reveal not a screaming drop to a dry arroyo, but a [...]
Well, well, well, Defonte’s (261 3rd Avenue, Manhattan and 379 Columbia St, Brooklyn) has finally come to Manhattan. Its opening has created quite a buzz as everyone clamors over each other to eat. And eat. And eat. Yeah, the sandwiches are that big. Thankfully the hubbub is true: the sandwiches are delicious and massive. If [...]