Seek out little local eateries when you're on the road. You can stumble upon some great finds in unexpected places! This time it's in the Atlantic City area.
Route 30 from Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City is Motel Row - oodles of more modest motels than the glitz and glamour of high-rise casinos. But here sits one of 6 family-owned sub shops in the Atlantic City vicinity. Sounds pedestrian - but far from it! Best sub or sandwich I've ever eaten anywhere in the world.
Sack O' Subs started back in 1947. The Sacco Family, originally butchers, still butcher their own beef for delicious steak & cheese subs, and grind their own beef for hamburgers, meatballs and Italian sausage (the family recipe has been handed down for over 100 years). They bake their own baguettes for the subs, bake their own rolls for the burgers and sandwiches. "Foot-long subs?" Bah, humbug! These homemade baguettes run about 18 inches long, so a half-sub - very generously filled - actually will satisfy 2 for lunch.
Yes, they are in those glitzy hotels, too, both Bally's and Harrah's. And they ship next-day priority overnight in insulated shipping containers anywhere in the US. Yes, they do get orders from Hawaii, about as far cross-country as you can get. I'm told a California computer mogul - transplanted South Jersy-ite - regularly orders 100 subs shipped to the California company for employee lunch parties.
Sack O'Subs, 784 White Horse Pike (Route 30), Absecon, NJ; www.sackosubs.com. Locations in Ventnor and Ocean City, in addition to Bally's and Harrah's Casinos' food courts in Atlantic City.
The best pizza I found over 1,300 miles from the Pizza Capital of the World: Mike's Stone-Baked Pizza in Tallahassee, Florida. I found the best Hong Kong Noodles in Singapore, and the best Singapore Noodles in Hong Kong (Foreign Correspondents Club, so unless you're a member or guest of one, you won't get any of those - sorry for your loss). There's just no telling where you're going to find the "best" whatever - it could turn up wherever.
May your road rise up to meet you (with good food!),
Best, Ann
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