Dawn F.
Yelp
Agoura Hills, CA
First visit to this small Italian deli located in a strip mall, busy on a Sunday just 20 minutes before closing. As soon as you walk in there is a cold case with pre made meal items to grab and go and heat at home, convenient!
We called in a sandwich for pick up without seeing a menu, my husband ordered a large sandwich with turkey, salami and swiss cheese. The gal said we could choose from a crispy roll or soft roll, she recommended the crispy roll so we went with it (next time will go with soft roll) and added pepperoncini's for $1.50 to the condiments which already come on the sandwich: shredded lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard and Italian dressing.
*Crispy Roll, it's delicious, and wide, but the top is thinly crispy/crunch, inside soft, and the shape of the bread is rather wide, lending to unavoidable slight cuts on the inside of your lips/mouth-unless you are eating this with a knife and fork which is highly unlikely. The bread is much wider than other deli's we've been to which just made handling the crispy sturdy crust of the sandwich bread a little more of a task than usual. We really had to plan the angle and game plan of each bite to keep everything together and navigate around the crispy outer shell-not the easiest sandwich to manage and dig into given the thickness of the sandwich as well. I would imagine the crispy roll would fare better with a hot sandwich versus a cold. Next time we would order the soft roll for a cold sandwich just for the ease of the consumption process, and our personal preference.
We were surprised the sandwich itself was $17 for a large but once we felt the heavy bag and got over the sticker shock we realized why, the thing was massive and heavy, definitely enough for two to share, at least twice as wide, if not more, as a standard deli sandwich roll. Each half looked more like a large rectangle almost a square shape (think ciabatta for shape not taste).
Everything on the sandwich was very fresh tasting. The turkey was sliced thin, the Italian dressing on the sandwich was great, all in all a nice sandwich.
Since the store was so busy and there were elderly people inside shopping, I thought it would be considerate to wait in the car while my husband finished the transaction during social distancing, etc. I would have loved to peruse the shelves and the bakery counter, but will have to visit again.
Service was quick and pleasant.