Monica’s Mercato & Salumeria sits at 130 Salem Street in the heart of Boston’s North End, and you can’t go wrong ordering an Italian sub here. What started as a market selling imported Italian products 30 years ago has turned into what many consider the best Italian sub in Boston.
A current employee says the market used to sell pizza, but the sub became so popular that they had to stop making pizza entirely because of the demand for sandwiches. Boston’s North End is the city’s oldest neighborhood and its historic center of Italian-American culture, home to generations of family-run markets, bakeries, and restaurants.
Monica’s earned its place in our best sandwich shops in America list for turning an imported goods market into one of Boston’s most essential sandwich destinations. For anyone visiting Boston’s North End, it remains one of the neighborhood’s most essential stops.
What to Order
The Italian sub is the only order that matters here, built from the same imported Italian products the market has sold for 30 years. The quality of the ingredients is what elevates this beyond a typical deli sub…