"La Italiana Let’s get something out of the way: it’s a $21 dollar sandwich with not a lot of ingredients. Bread, cheese, mortadella, pesto, and honey. But what you’re paying for is quality. The mortadella is shaved paper thin, turning its cubes of fat translucent. It’s layered with chunky pesto with extra Sicilian pistachios for crunch, and then drizzled with sweet truffled wildflower honey. The vessel of choice on its journey to your mouth is soft strecci bread with creamy whipped ricotta that oozes from the sides. This is not the kind of sandwich you eat in front of anyone. Not just for the mess it makes—but because seeing the joy it brings you might make them want to steal it. And there goes your $21." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino