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2016-06-01
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I've been to Posto Pubblico on a number of occasions and I've always liked it (and Linguini Fini). I lived in Jersey for 7 years, and ate at tons of Italian-American joints. None were this fancy, mostly Mom and Pop places with Sinatra on repeat. Since I've been there they've re-vamped the menu and added sandwiches! Sandwiches are another love of mine from Jersey. These aren't really deli sandwiches, but hey, I'll take what I can get. I got the Classic Italian: "salumi, provolone, oregano, giardi
Since I've been there they've re-vamped the menu and added sandwiches! Sandwiches are another love of mine from Jersey. These aren't really deli sandwiches, but hey, I'll take what I can get.
I got the Classic Italian: "salumi, provolone, oregano, giardinara" ($118 for half, $208 for whole). From looking at the picture, you might think I ordered a whole sandwich, but this is the HALF. So it's not a cheap sandwich, but it is a big one. The meats were really great. While the description mentions only salumi, it actually came with what looked like prosciutto and maybe mortadella? I'm not excellent at guessing Italian meats, but like I said, they were really good, and especially good as-combined. The giardiniera (misspelt on the menu) was not quite what I was expecting, like no carrots or cauliflower, but it was a nice pickley accompaniment. There was a little bit of sneak-attack mayonnaise, but luckily a small amount-- do be forewarned and request "no mayo" if you are rational.
The worst part of the sandwich was the bread. I've not got a great bread-describing vocabulary. I don't make it, I grew up eating rice and tortillas with most of my meals, and most of my sandwiches as a child came on store-bought mass-produced American bread. But I'd describe this bread as soft and tough. Tough in the sense that it's hard to wrest a piece off when you bite it, but still very soft and dense and a little chewy while you eat it.
My wife got the Wagner ("breaded eggplant, prosciutto, goat cheese," $108 half, $188 whole). This one contained no surprise ingredients or omissions (except, again, sneak attack mayo). She thought it was a bit too saucy, but that the eggplant was good and the goat cheese nice and tangy. She agreed that the bread wasn't very good.Will I come back? Yes. I've been waiting for this for sometime. I once tried to order an Italian sub at Paisano's, but they looked at me like I was a nuisance, told me it would be 15 minutes, took my request for no mayo, then 20 minutes later gave me a sandwich oozing with mayo. Since then I have slept. Mayhap in the twilight hour I have prowled this city's streets, looking for signs of a "soft opening" or some other faint signal of that toward which I truly hungered. And lo, unheralded, in a menu change that might have lain hidden from my watchful eye, but for the "10 best gourmet sandwiches in Hong Kong" in Lifestyle Asia, that prey appeared. It shall not escape me now.
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