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WHERE TO EAT The best Meatball Sandwich in the world (according to food experts)
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Recommended by Serious Eats and 8 other food critics.
"Take delicate, intensely lamb-y little meatballs, plop 'em on buns with a pleasingly meaty-tasting tomato sauce, and add creamy Caprino, an Italian goat's milk cheese: you've got our favorite meatball sliders in town."
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Recommended by Pete Wells and 6 other food critics.
"At first, the sandwich exhibits nothing out of the ordinary. The tomato sauce, simple and summery, just seems to have been made by a good cook. The mozzarella and torn leaves of basil are fresh.The meat is juicy and rosy pink on the inside, the color of a perfectly cooked pork chop. It is completely faithful to your memories while being much, much better than you remembered."
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Recommended by Dan Myers and 6 other food critics.
"These restaurants serve the best meatballs in America - These giant meatballs are then baked, sliced in half, and simmered in fresh-made marinara sauce all day long. This mom and pop meatball shop serves some killer meatballs."
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Recommended by Noah Galuten and 6 other food critics.
"The meatballs are fluffy, specked faintly with fennel seeds, and made from an appropriate balance of beef and pork. Soaked in a bright marinara, they manage to lift the sandwich up, rather than bog it down to sloth-in-a-tar-pit territory, like many other versions you'll encounter. Here the bread's interior can soak up all the bright, tangy sauce, while the golden-brown crust will maintain its shape, and, with it, the integrity of the sandwich."
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Recommended by Ken Forkish and 6 other food critics.
"Tommy Habetz’s meatball sandwich on a hoagie roll with tomato sauce, melted cheese, and pocked with brown takes me back to the East Coast meatball subs I loved growing up in Maryland—only these are better."
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Recommended by Teresa Gubbins and 5 other food critics.
"The best meatballs found around Dallas: Jimmy's Food Store - Meatball sandwich. The original!"
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Recommended by Danny Jensen and 3 other food critics.
"Where to get the 13 best meatball sandwiches in LA - AATB's version has hearty meatballs served atop provolone, doused with marinara, and dusted with Parmesan on freshly baked, crunchy bread."
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Recommended by Chicago Magazine and 2 other food critics.
"No condiments, no fuss, just saucy meatballs on a crunchy Upper Crust roll, provolone optional."
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Recommended by Jeffy Mai and 2 other food critics.
"Chicago's 20 Essential Sandwiches - The meatball sub is among the best of its kind, loaded with homemade meatballs, red sauce, and optional cheese and hot peppers."