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Marc Oh!
12-11-2007, 11:38 AM
Inspired by the "Italian Hero" thread, where do you think is the best place to get one in a) the city and b) the outerboroughs? Name all the good places.
just jess
12-11-2007, 11:47 AM
Leoni's in Bensonhurst...the Do Wopper :hungry
Its hot sorpresatta, prociutto, bruschetta, mozerella cheese, and balsamic vinegar toasted in the pizza oven.
theguy
12-11-2007, 02:07 PM
Inspired by the "Italian Hero" thread, where do you think is the best place to get one in a) the city and b) the outerboroughs? Name all the good places.
johns deli brooklyn...o my god their roast beef is out of this world...
as jess said leonis...i always get the alyssa milano...suculant just lik her..lol
illmatic
12-11-2007, 02:10 PM
johns deli brooklyn...o my god their roast beef is out of this world...
as jess said leonis...i always get the alyssa milano...suculant just lik her..lol
yeah johns deli roast beef with mozz is unreal..
illmatic
12-11-2007, 02:12 PM
the best place in the city is alleva on mulberry street.. with fresh auricchio provolone, and whatever meat u like on semolina with roasted red peppers.. shit is no joke..
Naughti Literati
12-11-2007, 02:43 PM
This thread makes me want a hoagie...Philly folks know exactly what I mean! LOL
just jess
12-11-2007, 03:26 PM
johns deli brooklyn...o my god their roast beef is out of this world...
as jess said leonis...i always get the alyssa milano...suculant just lik her..lol
gotta love johns oil slick sauce :keke
thats another fave :heart
blondie
12-11-2007, 03:34 PM
Salpinos in LI is the only one that sticks out in my brain
Defekted
12-11-2007, 04:03 PM
Im addicted to Parisi's on Mott and Kenmare st..... in NoLita
I could eat there everyday....... they stack the sandwhiches super high, with great quality meat, for a very reasonable price..... line is almost always out the door during lunch time
antknee
12-11-2007, 04:53 PM
Hands down my favorite spot for italian hero's is down the street from my mom's house in Staten Island. A&C Superette. I'll always remember this place b/c my old Mongoose Chomoly bike got stolen from here after running in to get something. :disappoin
Found an old article in the NY Times that mentions this place, and a bunch others in the metro area...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2DB1E3FF936A25753C1A9659C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
"Some Worthy of the Name
HERE are 13 sandwich spots around the city worthy of hero worship. Prices range from $5 to $12.
Manhattan
FAICCO'S -- 260 Bleecker Street (Cornelia Street), (212) 243-1974. Ed Faicco is the third generation of his family to run this immaculate Greenwich Village pork store, and he produces transcendent sandwiches. My favorite is the roasted pork loin hero, made with either smoked mozzarella or provolone.
ITALIAN FOOD CENTER -- 186 Grand Street (Mulberry Street), (212) 925-2954. Little Italy's best hero shop, with sandwiches made to order. I always ask for the crustiest brick-oven bread they have, and I am never disappointed.
MELAMPO IMPORTED FOODS -- 105 Sullivan Street (between Spring and Prince Streets), (212) 334-9530. Phenomenal sandwiches in an idiosyncratic environment. Alessandro Gualandi uses a superior Royal Crown hero roll he calls a sfilatino that is deeply yeasty and perfectly crunchy, and tops my hero with incomparable caper vinaigrette. It would make old sneakers taste good.
SALUMERIA BIELLESE -- 378 Eighth Avenue (28th Street), (212) 736-7376. Marc Buzzio and his family have been making fabulous salami, prosciutto, mortadella, capicolla and mozzarella at their shop since 1925. These combine to create an incredible sandwich, though I do wish the store's crusty hero loaf was just a little better. Make sure you tell the counterman you want your sandwich made with the house-made meats.
TODARO BROTHERS -- 555 Second Avenue (between 30th and 31st Streets), (212) 532-0654. Lou Todaro carries many different kinds of salami, all of which he will slice for sandwiches, and he makes fresh mozzarella every day. I'm particularly fond of what he calls porchetta, a rolled and roasted pork loin.
Brooklyn
BROOKLYN BREAD BAKERY -- 436 Court Street (between Second and Third Places), (718) 403-0234. Vincenzo Ruggiero is a publishing vice president during the day. After work he and his wife, Karen, head to their spanking new cafe, which serves fabulous heroes on Royal Crown bread.
CAPUTO'S FINE FOODS -- 460 Court Street (between Third and Fourth Places), (718) 855-8852. Joseph Caputo makes sublime cow's milk mozzarella and may be the only person in New York to make his buffalo milk mozzarella out of curd he imports from Italy. The sandwiches here would achieve perfection if only the bread were a little better.
LIONI MOZZARELLA -- 7803 15th Avenue (78th Street), (718) 232-1166. Lioni looks like a hero shop out of a Francis Ford Coppola movie, and the bread comes from nine different bakeries in Brooklyn. Hand your chosen loaf to a counterman, and a few minutes later he'll hand you a fabulous hero. Ignore the signs trumpeting the silly names for sandwiches.
PIAZZA MERCATO -- 9204 Third Avenue (92nd Street), (718) 513-0071. Giuseppe Generoso taught himself to make bread and then founded Royal Crown, the best bread bakery in Brooklyn. Now he's making his own salumi and mozzarella in a shiny, airy Italian market in Bay Ridge. If you want to sit down and eat, head two doors down to Pane Antico, which has the same meats, cheeses and breads.
Queens
CORONA HEIGHTS PORK STORE -- 107-04 Corona Avenue, Corona Heights; (718) 592-7350. Mary Lou Capezza makes beautiful heroes out of the mozzarella and salumi her husband, Frank, makes from scratch at their tiny storefront. Her dried sausage and mozzarella on a fine brick-oven loaf from Joe & Rose's Bakery in Astoria is a minimalist masterpiece: demure, almost dainty in comparison to every other hero in New York.
LEO'S LATTICINI -- 46-02 104th Street, Corona; (718) 898-6069. What makes the heroes so special at Leo's is not simply the incredibly fresh mozzarella that comes out of the kitchen every morning or the crusty fresh bread or the meltingly tender roast pork Marie DeBenedittis makes as a special on Thursdays. It's also the warm welcome afforded everyone who comes into the store.
Bronx
MIKE'S DELI -- 2344 Arthur Avenue (inside the Arthur Avenue Retail Market), (718) 295-5033. Dave Greco, the proprietor here (and Mike's son) has taught himself so much about cured meats he lends new meaning to the word curator. Ask him to make a customized version of the Big Mike Combo: mortadella, prosciutto, salami, capicolla and aged provolone, with the good stuff, on the crustiest bread he has.
Staten Island
A&C SUPERETTE -- 884 Manor Road (Holden Boulevard), (718) 761-0900. Clara and Anthony Fazzino make a formidable mother-and-son team at this large, brightly lighted Italian specialty store. Ask for your sandwich to be made on a Royal Crown baguette and eat it off the trunk of your car outside. Perfection. ED LEVINE
Correction: October 29, 2003, Wednesday An article on Oct. 15 about the best hero sandwiches in New York located a Chelsea sandwich shop incorrectly. As shown in the listing with the article, the shop, Salumeria Biellese, is at 378 Eighth Avenue (28th Street), not Seventh Avenue. "
illmatic
12-11-2007, 05:54 PM
Im addicted to Parisi's on Mott and Kenmare st..... in NoLita
I could eat there everyday....... they stack the sandwhiches super high, with great quality meat, for a very reasonable price..... line is almost always out the door during lunch time
i know joe, rob, and adrian very well.. we been going there for years..
rpmwary
12-11-2007, 05:54 PM
Inspired by the "Italian Hero" thread, where do you think is the best place to get one in a) the city and b) the outerboroughs? Name all the good places.
Frank and Joes Deli
Aztec
12-11-2007, 05:58 PM
Salpinos in LI is the only one that sticks out in my brain
Where in LI is that?
rpmwary
12-11-2007, 06:02 PM
johns deli brooklyn...o my god their roast beef is out of this world...
as jess said leonis...i always get the alyssa milano...suculant just lik her..lol
rawr
why do u NY'ers call it a Hero. that word Irks me.
worst word every for a SUB
rpmwary
12-11-2007, 06:06 PM
Go away and paaak tha caaaa in haaaabaaaaad yaaaaaad
blondie
12-11-2007, 06:07 PM
Where in LI is that?
it's over by my friend's house on deer park ave so i'm thinking that's either babylon or deer park. i'm not big on eyetalian heros but the one i had from there was excellent:heart
blondie
12-11-2007, 06:07 PM
Go away and paaak tha caaaa in haaaabaaaaad yaaaaaad
lol wtf :suspicion
rpmwary
12-11-2007, 06:08 PM
lol wtf :suspicion
hes from boston
the guy who made the hero comment
blondie
12-11-2007, 06:08 PM
why do u NY'ers call it a Hero. that word Irks me.
worst word every for a SUB
some retard from boston i went to elementary school with called sandwiches "grinders." THAT'S the worst word.
rpmwary
12-11-2007, 06:10 PM
some retard from boston i went to elementary school with called sandwiches "grinders." THAT'S the worst word.
Anything from boston is the worst. But yeah i think the ABSOLUTE EVIL is Hogey instead of saying hero.
joeydollaz
12-11-2007, 06:31 PM
grinder is a philly thing i think.
cliff huxtable used to called them hoggies. rememeber on the cosby show when the guys got preggo and cliff gave birth to a 6 foot hero and a 2 liter of orange soda :hitting
Naughti Literati
12-11-2007, 06:32 PM
LOL Fuckouttahere, mane! You haven't LIVED until you've had a hoagie!
Marc Oh!
12-11-2007, 06:38 PM
grinder is a philly thing i think.
cliff huxtable used to called them hoggies. rememeber on the cosby show when the guys got preggo and cliff gave birth to a 6 foot hero and a 2 liter of orange soda :hitting
HAHA.
Hoagie is a philly thing. And Bill Cosby is from Philly. Isn't a grinder just a toasted hero or hoagie? That's what I always thought.
Naughti Literati
12-11-2007, 11:55 PM
That's exactly what it is. And a zep is like a little hoagie on a round roll. LMFAO @ the Cosby throwback! I remember that!
joeydollaz
12-12-2007, 06:37 PM
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joeydollaz
12-12-2007, 06:37 PM
:grumble the fuck !
Gspot555
12-13-2007, 07:48 PM
HERE are 13 sandwich spots around the city worthy of hero worship. Prices range from $5 to $12.
Brooklyn
LIONI MOZZARELLA -- 7803 15th Avenue (78th Street), (718) 232-1166. Lioni looks like a hero shop out of a Francis Ford Coppola movie, and the bread comes from nine different bakeries in Brooklyn. Hand your chosen loaf to a counterman, and a few minutes later he'll hand you a fabulous hero. Ignore the signs trumpeting the silly names for sandwiches.
PIAZZA MERCATO -- 9204 Third Avenue (92nd Street), (718) 513-0071. Giuseppe Generoso taught himself to make bread and then founded Royal Crown, the best bread bakery in Brooklyn. Now he's making his own salumi and mozzarella in a shiny, airy Italian market in Bay Ridge. If you want to sit down and eat, head two doors down to Pane Antico, which has the same meats, cheeses and breads. [/I]
Lioni makes the best Italian Hero in the world...
And Royal Crown is the best bakery That is a great article
i3ei3eLiss
12-13-2007, 09:09 PM
Mama's of Corona aka Leo's Latticini ... :heart the special!
LEO'S LATTICINI -- 46-02 104th Street, Corona; (718) 898-6069. What makes the heroes so special at Leo's is not simply the incredibly fresh mozzarella that comes out of the kitchen every morning or the crusty fresh bread or the meltingly tender roast pork Marie DeBenedittis makes as a special on Thursdays. It's also the warm welcome afforded everyone who comes into the store.
antknee
12-13-2007, 10:33 PM
Lioni makes the best Italian Hero in the world...
And Royal Crown is the best bakery That is a great article
Mama's of Corona aka Leo's Latticini ... :heart the special!
LEO'S LATTICINI -- 46-02 104th Street, Corona; (718) 898-6069. What makes the heroes so special at Leo's is not simply the incredibly fresh mozzarella that comes out of the kitchen every morning or the crusty fresh bread or the meltingly tender roast pork Marie DeBenedittis makes as a special on Thursdays. It's also the warm welcome afforded everyone who comes into the store.
it seems like whomever chose these deli's (mentioned in the article) def knew what they were talking about. If you ever saw "A&C Superette" in Staten Island, you would NEVER think the place was legit. It looks like your typical bagel's deli/stop & shop kina place....
i3ei3eLiss
12-13-2007, 10:41 PM
it seems like whomever chose these deli's (mentioned in the article) def knew what they were talking about. If you ever saw "A&C Superette" in Staten Island, you would NEVER think the place was legit. It looks like your typical bagel's deli/stop & shop kina place....
Leo's Latticini has their own stand at Shea Stadium... they also cater for the Mets (before/after the games). Considering I'm a Yankee fan, the food from this place is the only thing that makes going to Shea worthwhile for me... lol
antknee
12-13-2007, 11:10 PM
Leo's Latticini has their own stand at Shea Stadium... they also cater for the Mets (before/after the games). Considering I'm a Yankee fan, the food from this place is the only thing that makes going to Shea worthwhile for me... lol
I haven't stepped foot into Shea Stadium since 1988. That stand would probably be my only excuse to ever go there again. :yipee
i3ei3eLiss
12-13-2007, 11:30 PM
I haven't stepped foot into Shea Stadium since 1988. That stand would probably be my only excuse to ever go there again. :yipee
Aside from the fact that my boyfriend is a die hard Mets fan (poor guy), that stand is the ONLY reason why I step foot into that stadium.
antknee
12-13-2007, 11:38 PM
Aside from the fact that my boyfriend is a die hard Mets fan (poor guy), that stand is the ONLY reason why I step foot into that stadium.
LOL! yea I was a die hard Mets fan too from 1986 until they fell off in the early 90s. Since then I stopped keeping up with baseball altogether. I know I haven't been missing much.
rpmwary
12-14-2007, 12:48 AM
it seems like whomever chose these deli's (mentioned in the article) def knew what they were talking about. If you ever saw "A&C Superette" in Staten Island, you would NEVER think the place was legit. It looks like your typical bagel's deli/stop & shop kina place....
frank and joes in the bronx
JACLYN
12-14-2007, 05:07 PM
Brother's Ravioli in Howard Beach.....best in Queens IMO.
blondie
12-14-2007, 05:12 PM
Brother's Ravioli in Howard Beach.....best in Queens IMO.
:heythere
that's where i get my pinwheels :silly
Penelicious
12-16-2007, 11:26 PM
You have to try the heros from Sal Kris & Charlie's Deli in Astoria--THE BEST! Place has a line out the door EVERYDAY. :agree
ufonyc01
12-20-2007, 04:46 PM
Leoni's in Bensonhurst...the Do Wopper :hungry
Its hot sorpresatta, prociutto, bruschetta, mozerella cheese, and balsamic vinegar toasted in the pizza oven.
You just stole the words right out of my mouth!!!!
Sick sandwich!!!
CHR!ST!AN
12-22-2007, 12:57 PM
Im addicted to Parisi's on Mott and Kenmare st..... in NoLita
I could eat there everyday....... they stack the sandwhiches super high, with great quality meat, for a very reasonable price..... line is almost always out the door during lunch time
parisi's is no joke!! i can barely finish half of one of those sandwiches
and their fresh semolina is bangin
MiKEY DOOODiE
12-22-2007, 01:26 PM
frank and joes in the bronx
frankie and johnnies idiot
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