1012 Kitchen
Italian restaurant · Midwood ·
Italian heroes with eggplant, chicken, meatballs, and cheese
Italian heroes with eggplant, chicken, meatballs, and cheese
"I noted a new lunch-only takeout sandwich shop opened by Di Fara legends serving chicken parm sandwiches, continuing a neighborhood legacy at a familiar address. It's located at 1012 E. 15th Street, near Avenue J." - Emma Orlow
"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
"Opened in its first week as a lunch-only outpost from the Di Fara Pizza family, this small takeout counter at 1012 E. 15th Street (near Avenue J, down the street from the original Midwood pizzeria) offers affordable Italian heroes stacked with sliced eggplant, chicken cutlet, meatballs, and melted cheese, priced $8–$11. Called 1012 Kitchen and run by Maggie DeMarco‑Mieles—the daughter of Di Fara founder Domenico “Dom” DeMarco—the shop uses her dad’s sandwich recipes, has a single table out front for seating, and intends to add spaghetti, lasagna, and other red-sauce dishes to the menu in the future. Opening hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Saturday." - Luke Fortney
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