i'm from Palermo, Sicily, where this bread comes from. This bread is eaten in a special holiday in Palermo, and we put inside olive oil, salt, pepper and pecorino or parmesan cheese. It's great!
The "trick" is to buy one and let it sit for a day refrigerated, and eat it the next day to let the spread really marinate into the bread and meat. No the bread does not get soggy and gross.
Thanks for the heads up I LOVE food and this was the only thing I ate in New Orleans I didn't love I thought it was too salty and honestly I wouldn't try it again but now with your advice when Im blessed to be there again I'll give it another go thanks...I couldn't figure out what I was missing
I finally got to eat this sandwich during my first trip to New Orleans. It’s seems so simple, but OMG is it delicious. We asked every Uber driver and other locals where the best one is served. Everyone said go to Central Grocery, so glad we did.
This is one of the best sandwiches in existence. Had my first one from a street vendor in 1990 and have loved 'em ever since. I'm very disappointed that McAlister's Deli no longer sells them (at least, here) -- theirs was actually pretty nice. Good thing we have a Louisiana eatery so I can still get my muffuletta fix when I want one .
I always get a CG muffaletta when I'm in NOLA - it really is the best. I drive it several hours to my eventual destination and toast the thing (it makes the sesame seeds stand out a bit more). It's perfection.
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You can make a great spucky like this at home! Get a good loaf of bread at your grocery store. Can be a round or long loaf. Most delis have capacicola, soppressatta,mortadella and cheeses. Chop up your own spread. Sundried tomatoes, roasted peppers, artichokes, etc. Make your custom sandwich, wrap it wax paper , put something heavy like a big book or 10 lb wt on top for an hr. Refrigerate then ENJOY!
I've been graced with this sandwich! i got the second to last whole muffalatta of the day! i shared it with my friend across the street in the park by the fountain. we both shared a great time with an abita, a bum, a fountain, a muffalatta and so much more! i like to think that my sandwich was the best because it was able to sit and hang out long before met!
I live right around the corner on Dumaine. The sandwich is great as is, but I always buy a couple and keep them wrapped in the fridge under my 24 case of soda. Two days and it’s a perfect bite of olive oil pork fat bready goodness. Nothing like it.
@1993 half is thirteen bucks I wanna say and a whole one is $25. I always get a whole, or two. Expensive for a sandwich, but its three days worth of lunch honestly. It’s huge.
I had my first muffaletta today and it was delicious. Not enough olive salad, but I had a jar of Central Grocery's olive salad in my fridge so that was okay. $22 per 32oz jar on Amazon, so it's super expensive, but dang is it tasty. Not something I would buy a lot, but I want to have it on everything I eat.
Its even better hot. Camellia Cafe just north of the lake in slidell is excellent. And on Thursdays, you can get it with house-made potato chips for $5.
The Schlotsky's chain offers something very similar, and I've only had muffaletta-type sandwiches there. What got me to try it in the first place was an old commercial with a teenage boy being presented with the large sandwich. He looked at it in wonder and said something like, "Who is this for -- Rhode Island?"
"Our olive salad is a family secret and we can't tell you what's all in it". Walk over to shelf and grab a jar of it for sale and read the ingredient label. Ha ha damnnn he figured it out!
Do Your Homework. The Perrone family owned a grocery store in New Orleans and they made the very 1st Muffaletta. I know this because I’m related to them through Bordanero, Magro, Serio, Palermo, etc. 😊
Never had one of these, and they look really good, but it always seemed to me that there is too high a ratio of bread to the other ingredients. Still, I hope to try one, one day.
The cold cuts, aged cheese and olive salad are all so strong and flavorful that you need the bread to balance it out. Also its not as much bread as you think. The loafs are actually thinner than they look.
Nice video! I'm confused about the story where people sit on their favorite American-Italian heroes in the backseat of their cars for flavor, but still a nice video.
Sadly it looks like Central Grocery has gone out of business. I live right around the corner and it’s boarded up. If you come to New Orleans and want a truly fantastic version of this classic sandwich, a bit pricier but so good, go to the restaurant in the lobby of the four seasons hotel. They serve it hot and dripping with goodness.
Why can I still by them from Goldbelly then? In fact I just ordered one from Goldbelly on probably like January 7th. That was a Friday, so because of the weekend, I didn’t get it until Tuesday, the 11th. If the shop itself closed, then they’re still making the sandwiches somewhere exactly like they always have (I’ve ordered numerous of them) and they still come in the same wrapping paper too.
@@Whoopdido777 Yeah, it looks like they’re going to open back up at some point. The issue was massive property damage inside from what my neighbors are telling me. Like the ceiling collapsed or something crazy like that. So they didn’t go out of business, they’re just closed and yeah, I guess making sandwiches somewhere.
@@SneakyCheeseThief Oh that’s good to hear. I live elsewhere and maybe other restaurants ship their sandwiches throughout the country and I know a couple other places are on Goldbelly, but holy cow Central Grocery is good.
From a native nawlins guy I tell you to get extra olive oil on it and olive spread...carrots cauliflower and olives!! Yall just dont know...warm it just enough for the cheese to melt
The bread to filling ratio on this sandwich is wack. Removing a middle section of the loaf, or "evacuating some of the internal bread would result in a way better sandwich.
Honestly, I've never scene a muffaletta sandwich with that little meat. Even the local chain supermarket's, like Robert's, puts two to three times more meat. I usually order it without the olive salad (it's too pungent for my pallet).
Anytime someone I knew was heading down there, taking the Memphis to N.O. party train or driving. I’d ask if they were going to visit Central Grocery. I’ve eaten plenty of two day old Muffalettas. Two and a half. Did not matter.
"..a nice textured contrast--OK ENOUGH YAPPING, LET'S EAT SOME MORE" Nick's tummy defeated Nick's effort to explain the food. Human Instinct >>> Human Brain
@1993 There is a restaurant near me that charges the same $12.xx for half a muffaletta and $24.xx for a whole one. These prices are the same as Central Market in NOLA, which makes me think the sandwich isn't so "special"
The bread seems kinda dry looking. It doesn't look that great. The meats, cheeses and veg spread looks very good, but that seems like a dense, dry bun.
They're cured meats. If you cut them thicker, your teeth probably wouldn't bite through them. The solution is to pile them higher. That's why you should eat like a local and stay out of tourist traps. Most other places would make a muffuletta with three or four times as much meat and cheese as this place uses.
I love this place. A little Rude, blasé and disinterested in TV time. Don’t need the business, cause business is good, thank you. When I say I love you, you say you bettah’.
Of all the places to get a muffuletta, Nick picks this place. It's a little embarrassing for us New Orleanians to see him eat that. There are many places that will stack your muffuletta with a lot of meat.
John Smith same as pizzerias, pho shops, etc. The muffuletta is just a type of good. All good gets copied like any other food. Trust me. There are some bomb ass muffulettas than this place.
haLLo its me at QUETTA form Balochistan if mr NICKK cannot finishh BIG sandwitch i can HELP him completed TASK but 1st he NEED 2 removal MEAT bcos my IMAM he say PORKK not halal thank U v.niceLEY
Napoleon House has a MUCH better muffuletta, in fact the best ive ever tried. im from south louisiana and have eaten muffulettas all over and Napoleon House trumps them all hands down....
TheMyst I hate that, but that has never been an issue for me. the oil and juices absorb into it and make it not dry at all. I have had it numerous times and not ever remotely felt it was dry.
@patricia taylor I just made my third order in about the last two months yesterday. The cost is ridiculous, but I’m totally addicted to them. They’re huge though. It doesn’t cost anything to ship, so I get 4 large meals for that $110...still $27.50 per meal, but they’re damn good.
i'm from Palermo, Sicily, where this bread comes from. This bread is eaten in a special holiday in Palermo, and we put inside olive oil, salt, pepper and pecorino or parmesan cheese. It's great!
is the Muffaletta sandwich a Sicilian invention or an Sicilian-American one
@@manitheman0806 It's a Sicilian invention
That sounds way better than the thing in the video.
The "trick" is to buy one and let it sit for a day refrigerated, and eat it the next day to let the spread really marinate into the bread and meat. No the bread does not get soggy and gross.
Yes indeed. You know how it's done!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the heads up I LOVE food and this was the only thing I ate in New Orleans I didn't love I thought it was too salty and honestly I wouldn't try it again but now with your advice when Im blessed to be there again I'll give it another go thanks...I couldn't figure out what I was missing
You are exactly right. Heck, I don't even refrigerate them and eat them the next day.
It’s so much better the next day!😂
You ain’t lying!
I finally got to eat this sandwich during my first trip to New Orleans. It’s seems so simple, but OMG is it delicious. We asked every Uber driver and other locals where the best one is served. Everyone said go to Central Grocery, so glad we did.
Had my first one in NOLA in May, 1975. Great Sam!
For a food that is so simple, it sure looks amazing.
It's not really simple especially cos after you dress the sandwich you gotta let it sit for and hour, then flip it and let it sit fir another hour
Looks most definitely are not deceiving, in this case. :)
This is one of the best sandwiches in existence. Had my first one from a street vendor in 1990 and have loved 'em ever since. I'm very disappointed that McAlister's Deli no longer sells them (at least, here) -- theirs was actually pretty nice. Good thing we have a Louisiana eatery so I can still get my muffuletta fix when I want one .
This is one of the wrold's great sandwiches along with katz's pastrami on rye.
"I'm gonna eat the whole thing!"
*eats less than 1/8*
I always get a CG muffaletta when I'm in NOLA - it really is the best. I drive it several hours to my eventual destination and toast the thing (it makes the sesame seeds stand out a bit more). It's perfection.
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Dheeraj Jagadev Solares is a skinhead lul
@@mastercheif878 didn't they show he wasn't, also he still writes for eater
That sandwich would cost $4,000 in Tokyo. Looks great. Lots of places in the U.S. do an Italian Sub so well. Makes me nostalgic.
no it wont. lmao.
Haha. It’s fine once. Can be duplicated at home pretty much. More of a tourist trap spot.
You can make a great spucky like this at home! Get a good loaf of bread at your grocery store. Can be a round or long loaf. Most delis have capacicola, soppressatta,mortadella and cheeses. Chop up your own spread. Sundried tomatoes, roasted peppers, artichokes, etc. Make your custom sandwich, wrap it wax paper , put something heavy like a big book or 10 lb wt on top for an hr. Refrigerate then ENJOY!
I've been graced with this sandwich! i got the second to last whole muffalatta of the day! i shared it with my friend across the street in the park by the fountain. we both shared a great time with an abita, a bum, a fountain, a muffalatta and so much more! i like to think that my sandwich was the best because it was able to sit and hang out long before met!
I live right around the corner on Dumaine. The sandwich is great as is, but I always buy a couple and keep them wrapped in the fridge under my 24 case of soda. Two days and it’s a perfect bite of olive oil pork fat bready goodness. Nothing like it.
@1993 half is thirteen bucks I wanna say and a whole one is $25. I always get a whole, or two. Expensive for a sandwich, but its three days worth of lunch honestly. It’s huge.
Solid chip choice. Zapp's are solid AF.
The Muffaletta is by far my personal favorite sandwich. Its best when you use a more firm bread and toast it with some herbs.
Being from NOLA I can say central grocery is great but hot from R & O's is HEAVEN
Zapps Voodoo Chips are out of this world
Facts
I had my first muffaletta today and it was delicious. Not enough olive salad, but I had a jar of Central Grocery's olive salad in my fridge so that was okay. $22 per 32oz jar on Amazon, so it's super expensive, but dang is it tasty. Not something I would buy a lot, but I want to have it on everything I eat.
The Napoleon House (Nicholas Girod House) on Chartres St. has the best muffaletta in New Orleans
Good red beans and rice as well.
folks I lived in NOLA and this IS one place you should hit...when the locals say that you know it's timeless...
Never forget my first one at the Grocery. It is a mandatory everytime I go down to the Quarter. Now.
The olive salad is actually a giardiniera. A spicy pickled vegetables reserved in olive oil.
It has to be toasted! So much better.
My all time favorite sandwich! Normally only can finish half on a good day lol
An important step is they wrap the sandwich very tight so the salad along with its meats and cheeses soak into the bread. 👍
Its even better hot. Camellia Cafe just north of the lake in slidell is excellent. And on Thursdays, you can get it with house-made potato chips for $5.
The Schlotsky's chain offers something very similar, and I've only had muffaletta-type sandwiches there. What got me to try it in the first place was an old commercial with a teenage boy being presented with the large sandwich. He looked at it in wonder and said something like, "Who is this for -- Rhode Island?"
heck yeah for the lil nudge for zapps, voodoo is a great unique flavor. glad you got to try some.
One of the best muffelatta in New Orleans!
"Our olive salad is a family secret and we can't tell you what's all in it". Walk over to shelf and grab a jar of it for sale and read the ingredient label. Ha ha damnnn he figured it out!
Do Your Homework. The Perrone family owned a grocery store in New Orleans and they made the very 1st Muffaletta. I know this because I’m related to them through Bordanero, Magro, Serio, Palermo, etc. 😊
Damn that looks delicious. Need to find me some of that bread and make some.
Because it is amazing
bread that hasnt been toasted or heated up with some meat and cheese ive never tried it but it doesnt seem that good
A NOLA muffaletta is actually pretty amazing. I was skeptical, too, but it's actually pretty excellent.
Better sandwich joints make it on bread that has been grilled or toasted.
Never had one of these, and they look really good, but it always seemed to me that there is too high a ratio of bread to the other ingredients. Still, I hope to try one, one day.
The cold cuts, aged cheese and olive salad are all so strong and flavorful that you need the bread to balance it out. Also its not as much bread as you think. The loafs are actually thinner than they look.
Alois J. binder bakery bread baby! Unfortunately my family closed down the bakery a couple years ago.
2:57 Damn right Nick ;)
Nice video! I'm confused about the story where people sit on their favorite American-Italian heroes in the backseat of their cars for flavor, but still a nice video.
the "olive spread" looks like giardiniera.
It's pretty much the same thing, just diced into much smaller pieces, so it doesn't fall out of the sandwich.
Giardiniera is usually more vegetable based, this spread looks to be more olive based
Come to Tenuta's in Kenosha, Wisconsin ... Muffaletta and more .. .
Sadly it looks like Central Grocery has gone out of business. I live right around the corner and it’s boarded up. If you come to New Orleans and want a truly fantastic version of this classic sandwich, a bit pricier but so good, go to the restaurant in the lobby of the four seasons hotel. They serve it hot and dripping with goodness.
Why can I still by them from Goldbelly then? In fact I just ordered one from Goldbelly on probably like January 7th. That was a Friday, so because of the weekend, I didn’t get it until Tuesday, the 11th. If the shop itself closed, then they’re still making the sandwiches somewhere exactly like they always have (I’ve ordered numerous of them) and they still come in the same wrapping paper too.
@@Whoopdido777 Yeah, it looks like they’re going to open back up at some point. The issue was massive property damage inside from what my neighbors are telling me. Like the ceiling collapsed or something crazy like that. So they didn’t go out of business, they’re just closed and yeah, I guess making sandwiches somewhere.
@@SneakyCheeseThief Oh that’s good to hear. I live elsewhere and maybe other restaurants ship their sandwiches throughout the country and I know a couple other places are on Goldbelly, but holy cow Central Grocery is good.
From a native nawlins guy I tell you to get extra olive oil on it and olive spread...carrots cauliflower and olives!! Yall just dont know...warm it just enough for the cheese to melt
I'm tried to go here yesterday but the are closed for renovations.
Part of me really wants to see that in a panini press
Evan D'Andrade They do hot ones, too. i prefer it cold.
Most people eat it hot. It's delicious hot
Oh Nick, you got me at "piquant"!
Are these better hot or cold?
The bread to filling ratio on this sandwich is wack.
Removing a middle section of the loaf, or "evacuating some of the internal bread would result in a way better sandwich.
Honestly, I've never scene a muffaletta sandwich with that little meat. Even the local chain supermarket's, like Robert's, puts two to three times more meat. I usually order it without the olive salad (it's too pungent for my pallet).
Son i can make this shit at home.
You guys should try Kenyan food next
Holy shit makes me hungry!
Had it growing up there. Much more on the bread back then. I’d NEVER mail order THIS!
Anytime someone I knew was heading down there, taking the Memphis to N.O. party train or driving. I’d ask if they were going to visit Central Grocery.
I’ve eaten plenty of two day old Muffalettas. Two and a half. Did not matter.
What kind of bread do they use? Anyone know?
"..a nice textured contrast--OK ENOUGH YAPPING, LET'S EAT SOME MORE"
Nick's tummy defeated Nick's effort to explain the food. Human Instinct >>> Human Brain
great video
Did this dude just fake bite @3:52 ? Lol. That was rough to see..
Muffulettas are best served about 2 hours after they are made.
i like it served hot
looks good
You aint gonna talk about them bomb ass Zapps tho.
Is this sandwich worth $90 for 2 whole sandwiches by mail order (Goldbelly)?
@1993 There is a restaurant near me that charges the same $12.xx for half a muffaletta and $24.xx for a whole one. These prices are the same as Central Market in NOLA, which makes me think the sandwich isn't so "special"
No. Just order the olive relish from Central Grocery and make the rest at home
the first time my dad brought us to NO he brought us here for a muffaletta
It’s banging
best olive salad = central grocery . Best muffaletta bread DiMartino's
How much was the sandwich?
The bread seems kinda dry looking. It doesn't look that great. The meats, cheeses and veg spread looks very good, but that seems like a dense, dry bun.
It's bread with a whisper of cold cuts
Right? That looks like way too much bread, although maybe it's necessary for all the very strongly-flavored ingredients inside.
Jeremy Gabbard I say cut the meats a bit thicker.
They're cured meats. If you cut them thicker, your teeth probably wouldn't bite through them. The solution is to pile them higher. That's why you should eat like a local and stay out of tourist traps. Most other places would make a muffuletta with three or four times as much meat and cheese as this place uses.
Would make the perfect bun for a sharing burger, what do you think?
I aint sharing shit.....
I love this place. A little Rude, blasé and disinterested in TV time. Don’t need the business, cause business is good, thank you. When I say I love you, you say you bettah’.
Next time I'm in new Orleans I'm definitely stopping here
I tried one from Central Grocery it was tasty but VERY salty. Maybe it was a one off kind of deal.
Olives are salty. It's been around 100 years its a Sicilian thing
All of the meats are cured meats, so they're typically salty.
They have weird hours.
looks very simple
Of all the places to get a muffuletta, Nick picks this place. It's a little embarrassing for us New Orleanians to see him eat that. There are many places that will stack your muffuletta with a lot of meat.
Where is the go to spot that isn't Central Grocery?
Hungry By Nature he did say its the origin/inventor no?
scarreddust just because it's original makes it good?
have a think about what you just posted..... if the original was no good, why did it spawn so many imitators? unbelievable.
John Smith same as pizzerias, pho shops, etc. The muffuletta is just a type of good. All good gets copied like any other food. Trust me. There are some bomb ass muffulettas than this place.
great that he's honest.
Anybody knows the chips he pulls out at the ending?
hot Cheetos
CronicasRandom Zapp's Voodoo Flavored Chips. They are sooo good
Correct answer! Thats right. Zapps, get you some.
unfortunately i cant, i live in Mexico ):
Impressed at the sandwich's substance. Not the video. Sorry Eater (N)
Good luck! LOL!
Wtf you on about. Its just some sandwich that looks the same as i make it every day hahahaha :D
If you make an olive salad sandwich every day, you're a weird guy.
Just because it looks similar does not mean it tastes similar
Jersey shore guys go here for their sandwich?
Looked dry as f***. Too much bread bro.
Try it before you knock it. Just saying.
Gonna eat the whole thing
*eats 4 bites*
You cant fool me stewie griffin.
They good out da microwave to
haLLo its me at QUETTA form Balochistan
if mr NICKK cannot finishh BIG sandwitch
i can HELP him completed TASK
but 1st he NEED 2 removal MEAT
bcos my IMAM he say
PORKK not halal
thank U v.niceLEY
Balochistani Tech Support is this some sort of inside joke? I keep seeing you post about your imam on eater videos.
It would be better on a crusty Italian hero.
Locals call it a ...Muff Sandwich
Muffaletta must mean Bread
Best....on day 2....
Napoleon House has a MUCH better muffuletta, in fact the best ive ever tried. im from south louisiana and have eaten muffulettas all over and Napoleon House trumps them all hands down....
The bread looks quite thick and dry
TheMyst I hate that, but that has never been an issue for me. the oil and juices absorb into it and make it not dry at all. I have had it numerous times and not ever remotely felt it was dry.
Oh, cool
The bread looks like a bit much.
Tempo4200 best bread ever
Not even funky at all. Damn.
Too much bread for me
It’s going to cost $109 to get two sandwiches shipped to me. YOLO
@patricia taylor I just made my third order in about the last two months yesterday. The cost is ridiculous, but I’m totally addicted to them. They’re huge though. It doesn’t cost anything to ship, so I get 4 large meals for that $110...still $27.50 per meal, but they’re damn good.
I hate this damb sandwich but my fam loves them
Needs more meat with that much bread
Its just A sandwich. Come on..
It's really, really good though.
Kamal El Ghalid oh no its not dude! Its life