Strada Italian sandwiches had its grand opening this past month, adding a fast-casual to Jimmy Pardini’s stable of restaurants, alongside Annex Kitchen, Annesso, and Willow Osteria. Claiming a new space in the northeast corner of the Park Crossing center on North Friant and Audubon, Strada is almost next door to its pizza-centric sister, Annesso.
As Pardini told us in February, “I’d always wanted to do a counter service place ever since I decided I was going to be in restaurants. I wanted to do sandwiches, but I thought, how do you make it Italian?”
The answer, it seems, is focaccia bread…