Xtopher J.
Yelp
Just saying the words "Quick Stop" now in my house brings back some amazingly good memories of incredible hoagies gone by...love this place, man!
There are three take-out spots on this one 1/2 of the block alone (and they're all great, btw), but this place has the hoagie on lockdown. The prices are dirt cheap, the food is great and plentiful, and there's zero ambience...and ambience has that tricky way of finding its way onto a receipt. Not necessary when you're just looking for lunch, and the floors covered in cardboard on rainy days aren't going to convince anyone otherwise.
In all other ways, this place is just the typical corner joint--penny candies, Day's soda, $.25 baby bags of chips and a very weird selection of larger household items in the back--but they get those hoagies down so perfectly that it could be a factory that produced nothing but scorpions and liquid fear in the back, and the place would still be great.
If there's a crowd (which can truly happen), just wait a few minutes. I don't know if it's the same now as in 2010 or so, but there used to be a somewhat larger-than-normal homeless population in the area, and they could definitely stink up the place. Even then, though, I was happier that they could actually afford to buy the food over stealing it or eating from a trash can.
Quick Stop is badass. Even if you only go once, it's strangely unique, and good for that. And you'll love your hoagie.