The Coventry Deli
Ah Coventry Deli, between this and Paganos Market it has become the goto place when lunch time decisions can't be made or proximity to the office becomes the overriding factor. These two places are so intertwined in fact that they have become the entity known as Pagentry, a monsterous beast that breathes out hoagies and shits salad.
So today, again being oppressively hot outside at 100F with unholy humidity, I take a step across the street into the belly of the beast for half an Italian hoagie(when I say half I don't mean half a sandwich, they just put less stuff into the sandwich compared to the "whole" sandwiches which are massive). Oil, lettuce, onions, sweet peppers, salt, pepper, oregano are the standard for my tastes with a side of macaroni salad and a pickle all for just $6 + tax. You can't beat that price for the quality of product that you're getting, especially in this area. The sandwich ingredients are all what you would expect from a good deli so no complaints there.
The only irritant to an otherwise fine sandwich is their practice of placing the meat on top of the veggies (pictured above). Now the physics of this set up is all wrong...when you go to fold this sandwich into a mouth accessible form it resists as the part most resistant to the fold, the heavy meat, is furthest away from the mechanical advantage of the fulcrum, the bottom of the sandwich. I can't for the life of me understand why they do this because it does little to keep the veggies in and a lot to make eating this sandwich a pain in the ass. I actually have to use a fork to force the meat down into the sandwich. Anyways, its an inconvienence to an otherwise good sandwich.
Moving on to the complimentary salad, i chose macaroni but they have a wide assortment including, potato, egg, seafood. The salad can be a hit or a miss, unfortunately today it was a miss. There was an odd taste to it that kept me from eating it but 9 times out of 10 the salad is fine. The salad being what it was this was a [5/10] lunch.
Overall LTE score [6.5/10] A diverse menu that, for the most part, I prefer over Paganos but the few salad problems drop the overall score down a notch.
did your macaroni salad taste like dirty rag? their salads have a tendency to taste like the rags they wipe their counters down with. real score [5.5/10].
ReplyDeleteit did not taste like rag, I can only recall one incidence when it did but apparently that is all you can ever remember...hater
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