Salvo’s Pizza Bar

Salvo’s Is a Moped Sandwich Expert

"An Instagram-only moped delivery lunch operation launched in June by Salvatore La Rosa, offering weekly-changing, tightly focused Italian-style sandwiches and homemade small goods delivered across Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Ridgewood. Customers DM to order and schedule a delivery; sandwiches (typically $14–$17) emphasize about three ingredients—examples include soppressata with marinated zucchini and Pecorino, a chicken-cutlet sub with mozzarella and marinated artichokes, and mortadella with burrata and crushed pistachios—and he also sells jars of caponata, Sicilian-inspired arancini, and lasagna Bolognese. He marinates artichokes and zucchini himself, sources meats from regional suppliers and hard-to-find cheeses and concentrated tomato paste from Italy, uses rolls from a Ridgewood bakery, relies on family recipes with input from his mother Antonia, and credits the moped and his courier background for the project’s local popularity among remote-worker weekday lunch crowds." - Chris Crowley