Lunch at Varasano’s features a few sandwiches unavailable at dinner. I tried them.
I’ve been for dinner a few times in the last couple of months and the pizzas are as consistent and delicious as they’ve ever been. On weekend night visits it has been packed full of people. It’s empty at lunch. Service is still a little pushy – “are you suuuuuure you don’t want donuts?”. But it’s still the best pizza in town for my tastes. It’s the dough – it rocks.
So good news, the sandwich bread has the same light and expansive texture with intense sourdough flavor. Delicious. The sausage and pepper for sandwich with a side Caesar for $8.95 was very good. Peppers/onions were a little slimy.
“Italian Deli” sandwich – coppocola, sopressata, fontina, basil, sun dried tomato. It was also very good – creamy fontina, the fresh basil with a strong aroma of anise, and the acid zip from the sun dried tomato made the sandwich for me.
It was tough to not order a pizza, but the sandwiches are definitely worth trying if you are in that area for lunch.
