So you want to have a real city bodega experience?…read more Or said differently a neighborhood deli experience ? That has a freshly made to order -MTO experience? There is only one place to go! Eovaldi! Amazing "samitch"! Nice people and fun neighborhood vibe. The New Yorker is my go to. You can take the kid out of the City but you can't take the City out of the kid. Sure you could go to a more hyped place close by but you would miss the best place.

Had a friend being some sandwiches and sausages from Eovaldi's to our town a couple hundred miles…read moreaway. My gosh, is the items from Eovaldi's just fantastic. I mean flat out fantastic stuff. Sicilian Bomber continues to be my go-to sandwich every visit. Foe the first time, I actually had the gravy put on the sandwich as it's suppose to be. What flavor the sandwich has with that gravy shmear they put on it. The place looks unassuming....but make mistake about it....Eovaldi's is the deli sandwich place of choice.

We would honestly have never even found this spot if we hadn't been out to dinner/drinks in the…read morearea the night before and left our car. We went and picked it up around lunch time and decided to stop in here for a couple sandwiches. This is a cute little mom and pop deli with TONS of great sanwich options. The bread was so fluffy and delicious, and they loaded the sandwiches with lots of toppings. Very St. Louis with lots of meats and sauces, and some flavor profiles that I only see in this area. I saw that they just opened in 2019, but they give a classic St. Louis establishment feel. We have some friends who live down the street so we will definitely be back with them.

My sandwich was huge. Definitely the size to be shared with a friend. I ordered it to go and it was…read moreready really quickly. Service was fast and really really nice!

The wife and I finally made it to Zanti's Deli, a place we've been wanting to try for a few months,…read moreespecially since I saw photos of their pastrami, my favorite meat. I love me some reuben, corned beef or pastrami but on the board today they had pastrami and grilled onions on rye so I decided to give it a try, substituting french roll for the rye, choosing spicy mustard over their white sauce. Karla is an admittedly very picky eater, choosing a simple ham and cheddar on sour dough. The restaurant is fairly small, maybe three or four small tables, but we arrived mid afternoon and quickly found an empty table. Ambiance is best described as "we encourage take-out". Owner Jami was at the counter and she is truly awesome; kind, patient, friendly, the whole nine yards. Let there be no doubt the pastrami was the star of the show. Holy cow it was so very tender and juicy AND flavorful, some of the best pastrami I've ever had. I was initially disappointed that it wasn't sliced deli thin like one of my favorites, Carl's Deli, but my disappointment faded immediately upon first bite. Wow! This may be my new favorite pastrami in the metro. Thick cut was definitely the right move for this house made pastrami. Jami threw in a small cup of their white sauce to try and I'm so glad she did. If you like a mild but flavorful horseradish sauce, you won't be disappointed by their white sauce. Karla really enjoyed the ham and cheese. The ham was so plentiful, we took some off of the sandwich and brought it home with us to make another sandwich out of. She would have much preferred Texas toast over the sourdough but she said the sandwich was nonetheless tasty with flavorful ham. Both sandwiches came with a side of pasta salad. Full disclosure, I'm not a cold pasta salad fan but it was tasty. Karla absolutely loved the pasta salad with its sweet and slightly tangy dressing. Overall, a super wonderful experience. We plan to return soon to try other things on the menu but I've gotta be honest. It's going to be tough for me to skip the pastrami.

I tried the Zanti's Italiano today (Mortadella, salami, ham, capocollo, Lettuce, tomato,…read moregiardiniera (I got mild), vinaigrette on cheese garlic bread). I got it toasted. It was really delicious! The meat was tender and had great flavor. The cheese gave it a slightly creamy texture when it was still warm. The staff was great and friendly as ever! Zanti's is still one of my favorite sandwich shops!

I always have good customer service at this location. Staff are always friendly and they move…read morefairly quick. I ordered a club sub in a tub. Fresh ingredients, portions are generous and best of all, it tastes so good. Plenty of parking outside, limited seating inside, and located in right off of 170 and Olive in the new shopping district.

I'd somehow managed to make it this long without eating at Jersey Mike's--this despite my widely…read moreknown love of sandwiches. It used to be there weren't any Jersey Mike's around here. You probably had to go to New Jersey. When they began to appear, it was at a time when I wasn't eating at restaurants as often. (I was not in jail.) An opportunity presented itself when a location opened in a strip mall near where I live, along with the other four horsemen of the gentrification apocalypse: Raising Cane's, Panera and Five Guys. Plus a Chase Bank branch, which you're gonna have to visit if you plan to eat at any of these places. I stopped by at noon-ish to have a look, for the sake of citizen food journalism. There was a healthy, but not overwhelming, crowd. A lot more people than at the Five Guys next door. I suspect that people have begun to resent Five Guys because of their prices, even though you end up spending nearly as much, if not more, at Jersey Mike's. It can't be due to the quality of the food. I ate there and it was amazing. The inside of this Jersey Mike's is not very big. You can eat there if you want to (I did), but you might not want to take a date there. You're gonna be in there nuts-to-butts, and not intentionally so. It's set up like a Subway, or any number of other fast casual restaurants that were clearly inspired by Subway. You order at one end of the line, explain to a sandwich artist how you'd like your sandwich and then pay at the other end of the line. Options are a lot more limited--intentionally so, I'm assuming. None of this BS where there's, mathematically speaking, a million different permutations of a ham sandwich. As if. You can get a sandwich on white, wheat or rosemary parmesan. Or some gluten-free option, which, why would you even be at a Jersey Mike's? Sandwiches are served Mike's Way--lettuce, tomato, onion and an oil-and-vinegar blend--by default, to save people who can't read, and people with stuttering problems, from holding up the line. Is that the case even if you order a cheesesteak? Possibly. This is Missouri, after all. There's only a small handful of things you can get in addition to the standard dress: pickles, banana peppers, jalapenos and some sort of pepper relish. I was curious to know what that pepper relish, or whatever it was, tastes like, but it wasn't that serious. Would the sandwich artist have objected if I'd asked him to give me just a little bit, in my hand, to taste, as if I were at a 31 Flavors? I wasn't about to find out. Peace to Ani DiFranco. Before I left the house, I asked an AI what the ideal order at a Jersey Mike's was. It said to order a Club Sub, Mike's Way. A Club Sub is something along the lines of a club sandwich, minus the extra bread in the middle, the Ruffles potato chips and the dill spear. It has, as I recall, turkey, ham, bacon and provolone. For whatever reason, seemingly all the sandwiches here come with provolone as the default cheese selection. What, no love for Swiss? The Club Sub mostly just tastes like turkey. Turkey in general doesn't really taste like anything, but deli meat turkey has a very distinctive flavor. The bacon is precooked and nothing that would pass muster somewhere where it's the primary focus of your breakfast. The wheat bread was nice and robust, with a bit of chew to it, perhaps to withstand the deluge of oil-and-vinegar blend. It soaks into the bread and softens it up a bit, not unlike an Italian beef or a French dip. If you're opting out of the oil-and-vinegar blend (which they disgustingly refer to as "the Juice"), again, I'm not sure why you're eating here. In addition to the sandwich, which itself ran me upwards of $20, I got chips, a soda and a cookie. It cost me almost exactly the same amount I recently paid for a cheeseburger (i.e. a double cheeseburger), fries and a shake at the Five Guys next door. The jalapeno kettle chips were mediocre. They might need to consider another brand--unless the titular Mike owes someone there money. The cookie was amazing. It doesn't look like much, and it's packaged like it might have rolled off an assembly line in an industrial area over in Maryland Heights, but it's incredibly rich. I probably won't live as long as a result of having eaten it. Given how much I spent, that might be for the best anyway.

Went for lent, and SO glad I did!!! A friend and I split the 9 inch King Cod and it was VERY…read moredelicious! I was worried that the cod would be overpowered by the other flavors, but NO! The piece of cod they use is big and healthy enough to stand up to those other crazy good flavors!!! We also shared a salad and some sides. ALL of it was SO tasty. The service was fantastic too. They've perfected their process and even though the line may be long, it'll flow well. We were even lucky enough to snag a picnic table outside. PERFECTION!!!

A group lunch choice on Thursday. It was getting hotter, but early lunch time was still ok for…read moresitting out and enjoying the lunch. I am not typically a Gioia's fan, I have had cold sandwiches in the past and they were just ok, I am not a fan of bagged lettuce is probably the main reason. It overpowers everything to me but most people can't even taste it. Large parking lot so plenty of parking. You walk up to a window to order and they hand them out at the other window. A few picnic tables and a cart with condiments and such. We each took our turn in line and then grabbed a table to eat. The orders were prepared quickly and soon we were all enjoying our sandwiches. I got the roast beef on white toasted. No cheese, no butter, just plain. I wasn't sure what to expect based on white bread, but it was a typical sandwich roll. I wish I would have asked if they had au jus because it did need something. I got some giardiniera and that added some heat but I think au jus would have been best. The roast beef was plentiful and had a great flavor, I was pleasantly surprised.

We went out to the City Foundry for our work holiday party this week. Everyone got to pick out…read morewhatever we wanted to eat for lunch. My supervisor & I both picked Sub Division Sandwich Co. I got the Chicky Chicky Parm Parm sandwich and she went for the What's the matter Col. Sandurz Chicken sandwich. The Chicky Chicky Parm Parm is crispy breaded chicken breast with marinara and cheese garlic bread. It was delicious with crispy cheese and crispy chicken. It was huge. I could only eat about a 3rd of the sandwich and some coworkers tried it. My boss got the Col. Sandurz which was spicy chicken, cheddar cheese, pickles, red onions & Dijon/mayonnaise. She really liked it but said they weren't kidding about the chicken being spicy! I would try other sandwiches from this place. Yum!

Came here on a Thursday around 730ish. I ordered the Yo Adrian ( not pictured) and its basically a…read morePhilly cheesestrak sandwich. It was good but the cheese wasn't fully melted the way I would have liked. It was good and wasn't too salty with the steak sauce they added to it. The peppers were cooked perfectly and the customer service was excellent. Will be back to try others. Everyone i was with enjoyed their sandwiches as well. As always until next time...

While checking out The Foundry, we stopped at Steve's Meltdown and decided to try their $30 grilled…read morecheese flight, which came with four half sandwiches featuring some of their top grilled cheeses. This was such a fun way to try several different combinations without having to commit to just one, and honestly, all four were the bomb. The Forever Young was the classic of the bunch, with Colby, American, and mozzarella on sourdough. Simple, cheesy, and delicious. It was supposed to be served with marinara, but unfortunately, we didn't receive any of the dipping sauces with our flight. The War Figs was probably my favorite. It had fig jam, goat cheese, white cheddar, balsamic, and bacon on sourdough. The sweet and savory combination was so good that I could have easily eaten an entire sandwich of this one. The Blackberry Beret was the most surprising combination, with blackberry jam, pesto, goat cheese, and mozzarella. I wasn't sure what to expect from blackberry and pesto together, but I really liked it. My husband isn't a huge goat cheese fan, so this one wasn't as much his thing, but I thought it worked really well. Finally, the Ranch Against the Machine had jalapeño cream cheese, white cheddar, chicken, bacon, ranch, and tomato. It had a little kick to it and was really flavorful. Just as importantly, they absolutely nailed the basics of a good grilled cheese. Every sandwich was served piping hot, and the sourdough was perfectly crispy and buttery. Grilled cheese can easily become too greasy or soggy, especially with this many different fillings, but that wasn't the case with any of these. The bread and texture were on point across the entire flight. Overall, the grilled cheese flight was a great experience and a fun choice if you want to sample several of their sandwiches. I also loved the personality of the place, including the "Gouda vibes only" sign on their screen, which I immediately had to send to my son because he loves making grilled cheese with Gouda. If you're visiting The Foundry and love a good grilled cheese, Steve's Meltdown is definitely worth checking out.

While grilled cheese can be simple, somehow plenty of people mess it up…read more This place doesn't. Bread is perfectly grilled. Cheese is delicious. You can go simple with American cheese or have some varieties with different proteins. Krinkle fries are crunchy and tasty. Service is fast for only have a couple employees. Located in the historic Foundry. Plenty of options for others if grilled cheese isn't their thing. 5 stars all the way.

Love this place. The employees here were very friendly. The sandwiches are really good too. I…read morerecommend ordering any sandwich "Mike's way" with relish. Soo good!

This was our first time visiting a Jersey Mike's and we were impressed. My husband got the original…read moreItalian sub and I got the hot Chicken Philly. We both chose the rosemary cheese bread and the deal to add chips and a soda. Service was great and we had a very short wait for our food. Loved it!