Massive sandwiches! You can easily split one between two adults. They are open early so we grabbed…read moresandwiches to go for the beach.

Today was my first visit to Father and Sons Deli, and let me tell you--this place delivers in every…read moresense of the word. I ordered the Turkey BLT sub, and it was nothing short of perfection. From the first bite, I knew I had stumbled upon something special. The turkey was incredibly fresh and piled high--not that prepackaged stuff, but real, juicy, hand-carved goodness. The bacon? Crispy, smoky, and cooked just right. It added that perfect crunch and a savory kick that brought the whole sandwich to life. Fresh lettuce, ripe tomatoes, and just the right amount of mayo balanced everything beautifully. All of it was nestled inside a fresh-baked sub roll that was soft on the inside with a golden, slightly chewy crust. Absolute sandwich bliss. The staff was friendly, fast, and clearly takes pride in what they do. You can feel the warmth of a true family-run business the moment you walk in. If you're on the fence--go. Trust me. I came for a quick bite and left planning my next visit. Father and Sons Deli just set the new gold standard for subs in town.

Dee's is by far the best sandwich shop in Cranston, and it's one of the best in RI. It's been my go…read moreto for nearly 20 years, and I have never, ever, been disappointed. Always fresh bread (I love the hard Italian roll), plenty of meat, fresh vegetables, and the best dressing around. Absolutely amazing every time! My go to sandwiches are the Italian grinder, the corned beef & Swiss, and the pastrami and Swiss. Service is always great here and they are very efficient in both making the sandwiches and at the cash register. There are a few tables you can eat at, or you can take your food to go. Either way, the charm of this old school sandwich shop is unmatched. It's always busy at Dee's, but if you call your order in early, it will be ready for you when you arrive. Definitely give Dee's a try. The sandwiches are top notch and the prices are great as well!

We got a roast beef and turkey sandwich at their food truck during Waterfire night…read more The taste was just OK...not very flavorful, kind of bland... The veggies were cooked well, but the overall taste of the sandwich was nothing to write home about....

This place makes the neighborhood even more Italian somehow. I ride by before they open and smell…read morethen cooking everyday....and it smells so good! Great place to go with someone who has different taste than you because the selection is vast, even different style of pizza but stay away from the white Italian one, it's addictive. My problem is that I want all of it. Even their drink variety is impressive. Don't have to read menus at all. You can walk in, see the long glass food fridge and point while grunting. Everyone else does Also, don't tell the Original Italian Bakery, the pizza chips are better here

Cutting Crew was playing over the speakers…read more At an Italian deli with a brick oven and an Italian flag hanging in the front window. (I Just) Died in Your Arms, 1986. Whitney Houston a few minutes earlier. Taylor Dayne before that. Huey Lewis somewhere in the rotation too. Somebody behind that counter was a kid in the late eighties and built the playlist around the songs they grew up with while the food their grandparents brought over from Italy came out of the oven twenty feet away. Lou Umberto opened this place in 2017 after graduating from Johnson and Wales. His family is from Cerreto Sannita, a hill town in Campania. He set up shop on Cranston Street, just outside Knightsville, on the edge of one of the oldest Italian neighborhoods in the city. Lauren and I went on a Monday afternoon. Gray skies. One of those quiet Rhode Island days where lunch slowly becomes dinner without anybody announcing the transition. Before we got inside, one of the guys working there was helping an elderly woman through the side door and walking her back toward her car with her groceries. That told me most of what I needed to know. Walk in and the room is doing four jobs at once without any of them getting in the others' way. Shelves stacked with imported groceries. Rummo pasta. Loacker wafers. Baci chocolates. Bottles of olive oil lined up beside jars of tomatoes and peppers. Along the opposite wall sits a long deli case full of prepared food. Eggplant parm. Broccoli rabe. Pasta in vodka sauce. Stuffed banana peppers. Pasta salad. Roasted vegetables. Then the bakery case. Tomato pie cut in squares with red sauce all the way to the edge and enough seasoning on top to perfume the whole counter. Potato pizza. Calzones. Spinach pies stacked on black trays. The kind of food that makes people walk in for one thing and leave with six. Near the front, bags of pizzelle tied shut with twist ties sat on a wire rack underneath a hanging sign that read Welcome Family and Friends. Normally signs like that feel decorative. This one didn't. And behind all of it, through the opening in the back, sat the brick oven. That being said. The pizza. The pepperoni pie came out raised on a metal stand by the window, the Italian flag moving outside in the gray afternoon behind it. Good looking pizza immediately. No stunt toppings. No overloaded nonsense. Just confidence. The pepperoni was placed, not dumped. Natural casing cups charred dark at the edges. Maybe fifteen slices total across the whole pie. Somebody understood restraint. The crust landed somewhere just outside classic New York style. Slightly thicker, but only enough to give the inside some chew. The outer rim puffed up high in spots and blistered dark from the oven. Flour still clung to the bottom and the back edge from the peel. The sauce tasted bright and barely cooked. In some bites it pushed forward sharp and fresh. In others it melted completely into the cheese. Sometimes all you tasted was crust, and that worked too. The cheese browned into amber patches across the surface that pure mozzarella usually doesn't create by itself. Probably some provolone mixed in there. I didn't ask. I should have asked. And the slice held beautifully. Crisp underneath. Enough structure to fold slightly at the front without collapsing. You could see the care in it immediately. Nothing rushed. Nothing overloaded. Nothing trying too hard. Just a very good neighborhood pizza made by people who seem to understand exactly what kind of place they want this to be. The kind of place where somebody helps an elderly woman through the side door before getting back to work. The kind of place that makes you think living nearby might not be the worst idea in the world. Don't forget to grab a bag of pizzelle on the way out.

love love love! awesome food. everyone there is super nice and the food is delicious!!! love…read morehelping out small local businesses!!

I was in the neighborhood and found this place. I walked in and was very pleased. It was clean and…read moremade a great first impression. I met the young lady behind the counter (Quin) and she was very helpful and supportive in suggestions a hot chicken sandwich. I love that this is a small Mom and pop kind of place. I sat in and had my sandwich. I was happy to see the local food traffic - the girls were kind and knew most of the names of the folks who walked in. It was a great experience.

I had dinner here with the family on a Wednesday night. Great food, great prices, and great…read moreservice. The restaurant is very clean and well taken care of. We went in at 5 because they close at 6PM. I had the pork Osso Buco and it was cooked with celery, carrots, onions, and Rabe. The pork was super tender and fell right off the bone as it should. It was perfect for the cold winter night. ($19). The veal Parm was made fresh and was very tender. It was one of the best veal Parmesan that I have ever had. The bread crumbs were flavorful and the sauce and cheese was a perfect match for the veal. I was able to cut the veal with my fork! ($18). Veal Bolognese was very good, better than most that I have tried. It was rich and flavorful with plenty of fresh shredded tender veal and finished with fresh parsley. Amazing! We all tried the Pasta Fazool...very good flavor, just the right amount of pasta and beans completed that soup. We even ordered some to go.

They were good but not great. I had their Italian grinder and there was nothing special about it. I…read moreasked for roasted peppers but they didn't have any so just lettuce, tomato, onion and banana peppers it was. The roll was good but nothing special. Also got chicken parmigiana to go and it was good. The sauce nice and chicken tender but nothing remarkable. I'd eat here again because nothing was "wrong", but nothing had me saying "cant wait to go there again". Service was good and friendly. The place was cute and clean. Maybe I should have tried a special because I really wAnted to be wowed here! I think I'll come back because the cases looked good and specials board enticing, but I didn't see it until after I ordered.

I was born and raised in the Bronx for 33 yrs so I loveeee an Italian deli…read more I've lived in Rhode Island for three years and I've never had sandwiches as good as the ones from the Bronx until recently trying Michaelangelo's . The bread is soooooo fresh - I had a steak and cheese and chicken parm- unbelievably delicious !!! I'm actually picking up an order today for my daughter and I. I'm excited to turn her on to this place as well. Keep up the a amazing job!

A fantastic place for terrific food and casual lunching…read more My colleague and I were here last week and we chose it because of all the great reviews. What they offer is a big variety of deli sandwiches and menu items that are all fresh and delicious. This is a great getaway from the "Sysco" type food" you get at the fast food and fast, casual restaurants. This is a family owned place that takes pride in making you happy. By coincidence both of us selected the "godfather" sandwich. They give you a choice of either soft roll or hard roll. We both went with a hard roll. On this sandwich you get. grilled chicken, prosciutto, melted, sharp, provolone cheese, red peppers, and balsamic vinaigrette. Just writing this review makes me wanna go right now and get another one. Topped off lunch with an orange soda. The owner is a third generation family member. He cares very deeply about the quality of food and it's freshness. We will definitely be back.

Worst sandwich and stale bread, I have eaten here before and it was awesome, today I got a small…read moreroast beef sandwich and the bread was stale, the sandwich was $11 hardly any meat on it, should've kept going and went to Dee's, such a disappointment, two bites and in the garbage.

I was so unimpressed w this establishment, after the reviews I read. Coming from the southside and…read morea diehard grinder fan of Tony's,I had high standards. My hopes and dreams were shattered once I tasted the Italian sub. I found it bland. Maybe I should have added more to it. I just don't know.

After seeing maven's delicatessen on Instagram, I had to come here…read more It was a blistering hot day out, and I walked into a pleasantly air-conditioned establishment. Loved the atmosphere and the place was spotless. One of the waitresses seated us asked us if we'd like a drink and pickles with coleslaw. We said yes pickles were great. Coleslaw was very vinegary. Was not a fan of that. We both ordered half a pound of pastrami sandwiches with Swiss cheese and mustard. The pastrami was very lean and sliced very thin and that was good. But I found the pastrami lacking in flavor. I think I was expecting pastrami like they sell at Katz's deli or the old now closed Carnegie's in New York. Would come back to try other things.

I really wanted to like Maven's. With all the hype surrounding this place, I expected something…read morespecial. After several visits, though, I'd describe it with one word: meh. To be clear, the food isn't bad. It's perfectly edible. The problem is that it's also remarkably average, especially considering the prices they're charging. Nothing I've ordered has made me think, "I can't wait to come back for that." It's just...fine. We actually visited during opening weekend, and it was a bit of a mess. They ran out of pastrami, which is a pretty big problem for a deli that was generating so much excitement. I gave them the benefit of the doubt because opening weekends can be chaotic. Since then, we've been back several times hoping things would improve, but the experience has been largely the same. The biggest issue, aside from the food being average, is the service. It's consistently slow. I can understand waiting when a restaurant is packed, but we've experienced long waits even when there were very few customers inside. It feels like everything moves at half speed, and that's been true on multiple visits. I also think they're trying a little too hard to be Katz's Delicatessen. That's an incredibly high bar, and instead of trying to recreate that experience, I'd rather see them focus on becoming the best version of themselves. Right now, it feels like the ambition exceeds the execution. The one thing I will gladly compliment is the bagels. They've been excellent every time we've ordered them, and honestly, they're probably the strongest item on the menu. I do think there's plenty of room for improvement, which is why I'm giving two stars instead of one. There's clearly potential here, and I genuinely hope they find their footing because I'd love to have another great deli in the area. We'll probably give them another chance down the road, and I hope I can come back and update this review with a much more positive experience.

Great grinder. Very friendly staff. Great experience.Enjoyed…read morethe whole Italian grinder. Thanks again!

My husband and I got the Tony Soprano grinders and they were delicious. All the ingredients were…read morefresh and tasty. We also bought a bottle of the Twin Oaks salad dressing for salads at home! You can call in your sandwich order and ours was ready on time!

My turkey club grinder was amazing!! Great quality turkey not dry and very tasty. Bread used is…read morevery soft, feels freshly baked to me. Lettuce crisp, bacon is delicious, and everything blends together very nicely. I would definitely recommend this deli I can't wait for my next non chain deli sandwich . I ate the whole sandwich while I was writing this review, which I never do. But it was worth every bite. Bonus was both owners are very friendly . I wish them luck.

Food is absolutely amazing and all made fresh everyday.... best deli around. The owners and…read moreeveryone there is amazing friendly. If u havent been you are missing out.