Faicco’s Italian Specialties • 1900

In the West Village since Joseph Faicco moved his father's pork store here in the 1940s, this family-run Italian deli slices meat to order for towering sandwiches that can weigh close to five pounds. The Italian Special piles prosciutto, capicola, and soppressata with fresh mozzarella and roasted red peppers on sesame-crusted bread, while house-made sausages — from sweet pork links to cheese-and-parsley pinwheels — come without fillers or nitrates, just whole hog the old-school way.