1012 Kitchen

Does Di Fara’s New Sandwich Shop Live Up to Its Name? | Eater NY

"I went with a friend to check out the sandwiches at 1012 Kitchen, an offshoot of the fabled Di Fara Pizza, and found a slender menu of only nine purely classic heroes—meatballs, chicken cutlets, eggplant, and pork sausages—priced around $8 to $11. There were a couple of surprises, including a potato-and-egg hero rarely seen these days, and Margie Mieles-DeMarco (Dom DeMarco’s daughter and operator) says the recipes are her father’s from the early pizza-parlor days. Customers order at a walk-up window and sit at a couple of wrought-iron tables out front; we were quoted a 45-minute wait despite only a few people, but the sandwiches are constructed with extreme care and the crew clearly showed the attention to detail Dom was famous for. Of the three heroes we tried, the meatball Parm was best—rich, crumbly meatballs, a zingy tomato sauce, and perfectly measured mozzarella; the eggplant Parm was nearly as good, with individually fried slices and melted cheese; the potato-and-egg hero was filling but a bit plain and could have used salt and a drizzle of oil. We tried to order the broccoli rabe and sausage hero but there was no broccoli rabe that day. The shop sits at 1012 East 15th Street, steps from Avenue J, next to a storefront with a black awning reading Di Fara Dolce Fatts." - Robert Sietsema