Plenty of places will put a quesadilla and a chicken parm on the same menu. Very few have a cook for each one.
At Antonio’s, the Italian food is cooked by an Italian cook. The Mexican food is cooked by a Mexican cook. The Colombian food is made by a Colombian cook. And the traditional deli items, the roast beef, the pastrami, the clubs and the cold subs, are built by our deli specialist.
It’s a slower way to run a kitchen. It’s also the reason a regular can come in for a pork roll, egg and cheese at 6:45 AM and come back at noon for empanadas without either one feeling like an afterthought.