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| - Wow, another winning restaurant in Vegas, and as usual, it's not even on the Strip. Seriously, the next time I return, I'm not even going to BOTHER with the Strip at all, because all the good stuff is on the outskirts. Cugino's is such a place.
This is sort of a combination restaurant/pizza shop/Italian goods store - it reminds me a LOT of Trinacria at home (which most Baltimoreans adore). There's a deli where you can get specialty meats and cheeses, pastas, and other goodness. My husband and I came here to eat, though, and eat we did!
My husband got the Donnie sandwich, while I tried a pastrami melt. Let me tell you, folks, that Donnie is something ELSE, okay? The mozzarella, meat and vinegar combined into one huge taste explosion that I will quite probably remember for the rest of my days. It was THAT good. And the pastrami melt.... wow. Huge, juicy, delicious. I have never had any sandwich in my life that I liked more.
We ordered two cannolis for dessert and they went down perfectly with the meal. Really, really good stuff. Definitely rivals Trinacria here, my Baltimore friends, so you have GOT to come over to this place to eat when you visit Vegas. If we lived here, this would be our go-to shop for Italian staples.
We didn't try the pizza, but we overheard our neighbors-in-food raving about it - something about how they haven't had decent New York pizza since they left New York but they finally found it here.
So now you KNOW it's good.
This is definitely worth a revisit when we come back to the area. Don't miss this place. The Yelp reviews are on target here.
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