"I never thought I 'd be the type to order sandwiches by delivery. I fancy myself to be somewhat chefy and if I 'm going to bother with a restaurant at all, I want to order something I can 't easily make myself at home. How hard is it to make your own friggin sandwich? But due to the complications of having children with early bedtimes, sandwich loving friends with very late ones who were nice enough to drop in and bring the party to us, and a shortage of key grocery items at home, we did the once unthinkable: We ordered sandwiches by delivery. I have to confess we were pleasantly surprised. If you choose the hero option $1), you receive a sandwich the size of a small baby. Good thing if you value a high calorie to cost ratio. More importantly for us, though, the ingredients were of pretty good quality: The bread, even this late in the day, was fresh and nicely toasted. Vegetables shredded iceberg lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes mostly) were fresh, the tomatoes ripe. Roast beef in the Godfather was an unadulterated product. And cole slaw was very mayonnaisey, but absolutely delicious as a sandwich ingredient. The downsides: A lot of the sandwiches especially the hot ones were pretty dry. It wasn 't anything that mustard or a quick batch of homemade aioli couldn 't fix, but the Godfather could 've benefited from a lot more of the delicious sauteed onions, which had only a tiny cameo performance in the production. The Cuban was pretty bastardized if you care about authenticity. Instead of roast pork and boiled ham, the deli uses turkey deli meat and run of the mill deli ham. This rendition is healthier, I guess, but some of us enjoy that artery clogging fatty roast pork, which adds all that lovely moisture to the sandwich. The bread was the same hero bread used for all our sandwiches; a lighter, airier Cuban bread would 've better balanced the fillings. But that 's an across the board ding for 99.99999% of Cuban sandwiches sold in NYC. If we 're ever in need of a delivery sandwich again, we wouldn 't mind ordering from this little deli again. The delivery guy was nice and the food came quickly. But I do hope never to sink this low again. Next thing you know I 'll be ordering in for a PBJ or smoothie. I shudder to think."
