![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to sandwiches, Capo sells meats, cheeses and Italian novelties. The walls blend some of the owner’s old family photos with vintage shots of the football team at neighboring Cardozo High School. There’s sufficient entertainment to occupy one’s time, one day Turner Classic Movies playing on an overhead screen and an animated puppy waiting for its master outside the front window. on weekends, to accommodate the crush of bar crawlers and other night owls. The only time the crew pre-assembles anything is after 11 p.m. “You can’t hurry love & you can’t hurry a good sandwich,” reads one notice. Signs parked outside and posted inside the onetime bank ask customers to be patient while their meats are sliced to order. Meanwhile, the sly heat in a filling of chicken breast and blue cheese underscores the submarine’s “Buffalo” billing. Snappy Italian sausage with melting red peppers is another score. Chicken salad gets points for big chunks of moist white meat and just a suggestion of mayonnaise. (The house-made Italian dressing, available for purchase by the bottle, makes any sandwich zing.) Tuna salad sharpened with red onion is pleasing. Produced by Lyon Bakery, the crusty, pliable bread makes an admirable base for salami, provolone and capicola, or cured pork shoulder, plus whatever finishing touches you want. My base of choice is the seed-freckled Italian loaf, sturdy enough to handle a full load of meat, accessories and vinaigrette. If the staff has yet to grasp the expected banter or speed, some of the food shows promise. Thus was born Capo Italian Deli in Shaw in June. Smitten with the old-school formula, the Washington operators asked if the siblings could help them re-create the feel of their shop in the District. The conversation turned into a trip down memory lane for Seligman when the restaurateurs hopped on a plane, ate at V&S, and met the owners, brothers Salvatore and Vincent Falcone. Seligman was particularly enthusiastic about a place called V&S Italian Deli in Boca Raton, near where he attended college at Florida Atlantic University. ![]() (Deb Lindsey /For The Washington Post)īrian Vasile and Andy Seligman, the owners of Brickside Food & Drink in Bethesda and Grand Central Bar in Adams Morgan, were lunching in the District awhile back, mulling their next project, when the New York natives started reminiscing about how much they missed the neighborhood Italian delis of their youth. Buffalo chicken breast with marble blue cheese delivers sly heat and an honest ode to the city of its origin. ![]()
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