Massimo's Artisan Sandwich Shoppe

September 2020 - we ordered one veggie wrap (Veggie & The Jets) with potato salad (mustard based) and one veggie panini (with pasta salad). Very nice little spot I found on accident. Food was super fresh and delicious. Great customer service even though I stopped by for take out 5 minutes before closing. I didn't know, but they were nice and accommodating. 4 stars instead of 5 because the sides were a bit bland. Not bad at all though.

If creative, clever names for menu items were a major part of the equation in a review, Massimo’s would be a slam dunk five star place. Unfortunately, however, it’s really about the food. Menu item names are near the bottom of the list of factors when writing a review. I wanted so so badly to like this place. The man who took my orders was so cheerful and nice. I gave it two chances. And it’s just not that good. As I look through the other reviews, I’m almost saddened that I didn’t have a similar experience. Only one other reviewer had an experience like mine. I’m not sure what the people leaving positive reviews tasted, but here’s what I experienced: Classic Reuben: from the very first bite, I detected something overwhelmingly tangy and with a taste I just didn’t care for. Everything was so mixed together, that I was never able to determine if it was the meat or the dressing. I suspect it was the dressing. The marble rye was fine. Chicken salad sandwich: the grilled croissant was good, but the tomatoes were pale and the chicken salad was way too creamy and had no flavor. Cole slaw: way too sweet, not finely chopped enough, and had a taste that was unlike any coleslaw I’ve ever tasted. And not in a good way. Potato salad: mustard based, it was decent, but seemed to me to be food service quality. The capstone of this review is the Texas Pete. I went to the counter and asked for some. My intent was to try to save the taste of potato salad and add some taste to the chicken salad. They gave me a bottle with a “best by” date of March 16, 2018. Today is December 30, 2019. Please read those last two sentences again. They gave me a bottle of Texas Pete that was a year and nine months past the best by date. I guess there’s really not much else to say.