Ninos Deli And Subs — Restaurant in City of Albany

I fell in love last Thursday... and I fell hard. 🤣

Mom & pop deli, Italian, owner-run (they make the sandwiches in front of you), family business... they care. Full stop.

We were 10, taking the food on the road, to-go. First timers, if you will.

Dom & Barbara treated us like family. We had 4 of our kids, 3 hungry seminarians, and a lot of food to order. With chips and drinks, it averaged to about 15 bucks a head... totally worth every penny.

House-made from an authentic, legit Italian bakery they owned (or family did; in back of same/adjoining building) with homemade Russian dressing on a house-made Kaiser bun (hard roll).

Plus, the shrimp salad special was almost all shrimp and no celery or Mayo; I'm not kidding. In fact, I asked if it was made with a bunch of fillers, and she said no, no, there's a good amount of shrimp in it, and she actually undersold that statement by a lot. I ate it so fast I didn't have time to take a picture. LOL

My son had had a ham, cheese, mayo, and tomato, sandwich on a homemade Sub roll (soft roll). Usually at other Deli places he wouldn't get a large sandwich because he wouldn't finish them, but he had a small and decided that he would have eaten two more sandwiches had they been given to him. Certainly would have been able to polish off a large sandwich easily.

She got a normal sandwich that you would probably get at a deli if you were just ordering one on a regular day or a regular basis, but it tasted so different and tasted so delicious and scrumptious, that's why he wanted two or three more sandwiches. And he wasn't kidding.

The rest of our group got a chicken parmesan sandwich, more ham sandwiches, a couple of chicken cutlet sandwiches, and a pastrami sandwich that was out of this world to die for good.

I am super picky and super particular, and I am very discreet with the number of five-star reviews that I give, especially to food places. I would put their sandwiches up against places in Manhattan at some of the most world-renowned delis. The roast beef is just simply unstoppable with her homemade Russian dressing.

It pains me that these one-star reviews come in for a place when maybe they were busy or you have a personal problem with the owners, and that's not fair.

These people are great folks who run an excellent small family business.

We hope and pray that we come back to Albany for many other lunch and dinner take out occasions with these people.

Keep up the excellent work. You are the heart and soul of what makes great local American restaurants The Talk...

So much has changed with no more boars head meat, shredded lettuce, etc. The way the sandwich was put together looked like something that came out of a school cafeteria/ gas station on thesideoftheroad. However, the bread is still great. Not sure where the original owners went, and if they have just " fell back" quality control is at...

Food was okay got our order wrong after spending almost $40 for my wife,children and I and so when we arrived home my wife’s order was way wrong. We called well she called and spoke to the same women who took the order and she just basically said “ well hopefully we will get it...