"UPDATE 20150813: Prices have gone up sharply and although the previous prices are still shown on the menu on their website, they will not honor them. Quality seems to have dropped a bit as well though I admittedly have only re sampled a few dishes<br/ <br/ UPDATE 20150108: after hearing Peyton Manning sing 'chicken parm you taste so good ' for about the ten thousandth time, I did go get a chicken parm sandwich (currently 7.95) from Bettas today. Same bread and same sauce at the meatball and sausage hoagies, but the chicken is not good. Avoid this sandwich. Also, they wanted 50 cents to add onions to the sandwich, which is sad.<br/ <br/ ORIGINAL REVIEW: A lot of italian eateries around Cincinnati have a meatball sub/hoagie/grinder, and some of those also offer a chicken parm, but very very few perhaps a dozen or so offer a sausage parm sub. Basically the same as the meatball sub meat, cheese,red sauce, onion, usually peppers except the meat is italian sausage. I have spent the last month trying nearly every sausage parm sub available in greater Cincinnati, and can now say with certainty that Betta 's has the best in town, hands down.<br/ <br/ The mild/sweet italian sausage itself is made in house, with lots of fresh herbs visibly speckled about in it, and is served in this sandwich as 2 3 inch cuts of the roughly inch to inch and a quarter diameter links. It has a great flavor all by itself, but the tangy and slightly chunky tomato sauce (also made in house) that I believe is also used on the pizzas here adds a lot to the overall flavor profile of the sandwich. The sub roll is sourced locally I believe from Giminetti 's Bakery but they wouldn 't confirm or deny is puffy and light with a nice outer crust, and is thoughtfully cut like a boat (the ends are not cut) to help keep all that saucy goodness from spilling out the ends while you eat it. Onions are added if you like, and the whole thing is topped with provolone cheese and baked til the top of the cheese has browned slightly. Each of the parts are very good individually, but the sum of the parts is even greater. Absolutely delicious. <br/ <br/ I have had this sandwich 3 times in the past month and it has been excellent each time. I have also tried the meatball sub, made more or less the same way and on the same bread with whole large made in house meatballs, and it too is very, very good. <br/ <br/ Most of the other spots I tried gave me just the sandwich itself, but Bettas throws in a handful of ruffled potato chips and a pickle spear to make it a meal, which is much appreciated. <br/ <br/ The size and price of these two subs is pretty consistent to the size and price of these same subs available elsewhere locally.<br/ <br/ The 10 ' thin crust pizzas coming out of the wood fired oven that can be viewed right at the takeout counter look really great too, but I am having a hard time ordering anything but one of the subs. <br/ <br/ One very minor quibble: most places included bell pepper in their sausage parm sub, either in the menu description or free of charge upon request. Bettas does charge extra for bell peppers to be added"
