All’Antico Vinaio
Sandwich shop · Murray Hill ·
Signature La Paradiso sandwich: mortadella, stracciatella, pistachio cream
Signature La Paradiso sandwich: mortadella, stracciatella, pistachio cream
"I learned that the famous sandwich shop from Florence, which opened its original location in 1989 and launched here in Manhattan in 2021, is expanding across the borough: a West Village spot at 89 Seventh Avenue South (near Barrow Street) opens March 2 — about six blocks from its outpost at 225 Sullivan Street (near West Third Street) — and later this year it will add a food-court location at Brookfield Place in the spring and a Flatiron shop at 1123 Broadway (near West 25th Street) in the summer; it already has locations in Midtown, the West Village, and the Upper East Side." - Luke Fortney
"The midtown branch of a Florentine panini parlor turns out an elevated, nostalgia-inducing signature sandwich called La Paradiso: yards of mortadella paired with creamy stracciatella and a spreadlike pistachio cream studded with chopped pistachios, yielding a porky, nutty, oozy, creamy, and crunchy experience that riffs on peanut-butter-and-bologna. Other standout offerings follow the same maximal, ingredient-forward logic — La Toscana (salami, Pecorino, and truffle honey), La Favolosa (fennel salami with spicy eggplant and artichoke/Pecorino creams), L’Inferno (porchetta with ’nduja cream), and a recently added New Yorker (roast beef, tomato, arugula, and an onion-porcini cream reminiscent of French onion dip). Everything is served on a house-baked schiacciata with a thin, crunchy crust and cool, creamy crumb that makes these large-format sandwiches excellent value ($9–$18 and often big enough for two). For now sandwiches are takeaway or eaten at a narrow ledge inside the shop; an adjacent dining room and a beer-and-wine license are reportedly in the works." - Grub Street
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