Porchetta

• Cuisine(s): Italian
  Hours: Sun-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 10:30am-11pm
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa
  Features: Takeout, Delivery, Order Online, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch, Snack Food
• Alcohol: None
  Reservations: Not Accepted
  Parking: No Parking

Description

This single-minded sandwich shop serves only one meat;porchetta, or Italian roast pork. The lush meat is garlicky and rosemary-scented. It's wonderful tucked into a ciabatta roll with a scattering of cracklings that are as crispy as potato chips. The place is tiny and sweet: blue and white tile, a few stools, and a counter where you can gaze upon the large hunks of burnished-skinned pig. Everything in the shop is cooked in one small Electrolux oven, which sits out in plain view. Besides the piggy, you can choose from a short list of sides. Stewed bitter greens are strewn with soft whole cloves of garlic. The roast potatoes are tossed in pork fat and little crunchy bits of pork.