The Real Italian Deli

In all my visits to your establishment, my most recent visit was deplorable. I can not recall ever experiencing such terrible customer service and the most disrespectful employee. On Saturday, March 16th I place a order for pick up. The young girl who took the order was rude, and when I I arrived at the store, I asked for a manager. As I proceeded to go over with the manager the treatment I received, the young girl stared at me and kept rolling her eyes. As I continued to address her attitude, she started talking back to me and her manager. Her manager told her to go to the back, the young girl said "no" and proceeded to talk back to the manager and never went to the back after being told to do so 5-7 times. The restaurant was full of customers, watching a defiant, rude employee talk back to her manager and a customer.

If this is the best help you can employ, you might as well shut down this establishment.

Favorite deli!! Seriously, the best sandwiches in the entire desert! I don't know why I didn't review this place earlier, but it is truly a deli gem!

Fresh sandwiches-
Turkey and Swiss with the works on a croissant- 5+++
Turkey pesto on rosemary bread- 5
Spicy combo (can get it mild)- 5
Muffuletta- 5

Take-home goods:
Deli meats and cheese selection are excellent- 5
Muffuletta- 5
Giardinara- 5
Fresh baguette- 5
Croissants- 5
Olive Oils - 5

Service and setting- 5

Excellent all around!

Picked up a sandwich to bring with me to the PS airport. Delicious and fresh. It must have looked pretty good to others because a man sitting near me in the open atrium asked which food vendor I had bought it from. So much better than airport food.

Will The Real Italian Deli please stand up?

I repeat, Will The Real Italian Deli please stand up?

We're gonna have a problem here...

To my fellow Eminem fans, you're in good company. And even though this place might not serve up
'Moms Spaghetti', I say this is the Realest Italian Deli that you're gonna find in the middle of the desert this side of Detroit.

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Thanks to Yelp, we found this place ahead of our trip to Palm Springs and it did not disappoint!

We split an Italian sandwich, a Caesar salad & ordered 2 cokes...

and it was the perfect lunch time meal allowing us to escape the heat temporarily before heading back to our hotel and hitting the pool.

Not only does this place have fresh Italian sandwiches, salads, pastas & premade desserts, but you can also shop their small Italian grocery store which offers up authentic Italian goods from the Motherland.

From canned tomato sauce to olive oils and balsamic vinegars, this one stop Italian grocery shop is gonna have you blasting Andrea Bocelli all while you cook your little heart out in your own kitchen.

And whether your eating in, grabbing lunch to go or taking the grocery ingredients home and preparing it for yourself; you can now confidently bring your thumb up against four fingers and shake it back & forth in the air by your head, just like the Italians do.

(The finger purse gesture).

Because whether you like it or not, after eating here, you will become apart of the Real Italian Deli Famiglia.

So, now that I came, I saw, I conquered this hidden gem in the desert...

It's your turn to Veni, Vidi, Vici for yourself and see what makes The Real Italian Deli really stand up.

Stupendous spicy sandwich with all the trimmings. Delicious fresh bread, high quality cured meats. What more could you want? I can't wait to pick up a sandwich for my plane trip home! Very nice service too. If I was staying somewhere with a kitchen I would have picked up some more pantry staples which looked legit (sauces, dried pastas, etc.).

The location on Sunrise is so convenient to grab a sandwich for the plane ride home. The people behind the counter are so nice and will always make you a custom sandwich if you don't see what you want in the case. The only gross thing I got was sweet and salty kettle chips - just weird and not what you'd want beside this beauty. I love this place!

Cute deli with a lot of good looking Italian products. I picked up a sandwich. It was great, the focaccia is fantastic. Really tasty meats and delicious spicy olive spread. Huge sandwich, enough for two meals for me. I'd go back for that bread and to try more stuff.

I primarily like to buy their red sauces for my pasta.

Also, there is a much higher grade of cold pressed olive oil here, than you will find at any of the grocery stores. In fact, there is no way to tell if Olive oil in grocery stores is truly high quality and I read an article somewhere where items that are labeled cold pressed olive oil isn't even olive oil... especially if it's super light in color or bottled in plastic. So.. I purchase all my olive oils here @ The Real Italian Deli.

The sandwiches are pretty incredible as well.

Fire sandwiches and it's the cutest decor in and outside the store, friendly staff too. I've only had the sandwiches so I want to buy all the authentic meats and pasta and olive oils, etc that they have on the next time I come. Thanks!

Really good Italian hero style sandwiches. They also sell good Italian pastas and sauces and other things.