{"id":24176,"date":"2020-08-09T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=24176"},"modified":"2020-08-09T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:32:59","slug":"the-original-nottoli-son-review-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=24176","title":{"rendered":"The Original Nottoli &#038; Son Review Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Original Nottoli &amp; Son Review Chicago<\/h2>\n<p>The area around Harlem Avenue, just south of Interstate 90, about twenty miles NW of downtown Chicago, has truly become the area&#8217;s new &#8220;Little Italy.&#8221; There are literally dozens of Italian-centric delis, markets, bakeries and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked at a couple of them before, including another deli named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2016\/04\/07\/nottoli-italian-market-review-chicago-il\/\">Nottoli<\/a>&#8221; (no relation I am told), a restaurant\/pizza called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2020\/02\/10\/dinos-pizza-review-nw-suburban-chicago-illinois\">Dino&#8217;s<\/a>,&#8221; (superb pizza), and a market and take out operation, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2020\/01\/07\/rex-italian-foods-review-norridge-il\/\">Rex<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This particular Nottoli I became aware of due to shouting on the internet saying it was absolutely the best, and also being featured on a local tv program called &#8220;Chicago&#8217;s Best.&#8221; (Irony)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycKOeJG1V1A\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>My goodies from Nottoli?\u00a0 An Italian Beef Combo sandwich (combo means with a sausage nestled in the beef), an entree of sausage and peppers, some repacked Cerignola olives, several pounds of fresh Italian sausage for the freezer) a loaf of bread and a pound of meatballs.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian beef was one of the best I have had anywhere, ever. It came &#8220;baptized&#8221; (completely dipped in au jus) so it was quite messy, but isn&#8217;t messy food the most bigly funniest?\u00a0 The olives were a real disappointment, as the giant Cerignola red olives should be very firm and bursting with woodsy flavor (I cure olives at home, so like the insurance company ad says &#8220;I know a thing or two.&#8221;)\u00a0 These were lifeless and mushy.\u00a0 I suspect this happens when a quantity is taken from a vat of intense brine and they are repacked in smaller containers in a water bath. Just no.<\/p>\n<p>Meatballs were fine, good flavor, good texture, but I prefer the ones at Rex, they have a much more intense flavor of fennel and garlic.\u00a0 Bread? Superb. Sausage and peppers?\u00a0 Same great sausage as in the Italian beef, so no complaints there.<\/p>\n<p>If you love Italian food, take an afternoon and plot a course for this neighborhood, have a pizza, buy some treats at the Sicilia Bakery (which I will write about in a bit), and then hit one or more markets. The markets also stock dry and canned goods imported from Italy. The other Nottoli has the largest selection in that realm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24163\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200809_112116-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"The Original Nottoli &amp; Son Review Chicago\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Meatballs and bread<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Menu, Reviews, Photos &amp; Information about The Original Nottoli &amp; Son, Dunning and other Restaurants in Chicago\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/chicago\/the-original-nottoli-son-dunning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/logo\/17762850\/biglink\" alt=\"The Original Nottoli &amp; Son Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Original Nottoli &amp; Son Review Chicago<br \/>\nThe Original Nottoli &amp; Son Review Chicago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Original Nottoli &amp; Son Review Chicago The area around Harlem Avenue, just south of Interstate 90, about twenty miles NW of downtown Chicago, has truly become the area&#8217;s new &#8220;Little Italy.&#8221; There are literally dozens of Italian-centric delis, markets, bakeries and restaurants. I&#8217;ve looked at a couple of them before, including another deli named&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=24176\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Original Nottoli &#038; Son Review Chicago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16,26],"tags":[1151,1915],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}