Deli catering is a specialty of Pagano’s Market and Bar. Pagano’s has always offered traditional and healthy fare, from its fresh cheeses, imported ham, corned beef, and prosciutto to premium sandwiches, wraps, and hoagies. Matt Pagano, the owner, continues the legacy that his father, Jack Pagano, started back in 1962. Jack introduced gourmet cuisine to customers in the Philadelphia area by opening Pagano’s Prime Meat, offering high-quality meats and cheeses. When a meat-packing strike in the 1970s made it difficult to obtain prime meat, Jack expanded his offerings to include gourmet salad bar ingredients such as chevre goat cheese and crème fraiche, along with exotic coffee beans and chocolate-chip scones. Pagano’s Prime Meats became Pagano’s Cheesery, a source for restaurateurs like Georges Perrier, his then neighbor on Walnut Street. Perrier would visit daily to talk with Jack about the offerings for his cheese plate at Le Bec-Fin.
At Pagano’s, there is no end to their deli favorites, including a traditional deli tray featuring a classic assortment of sliced roasted turkey breast, imported ham, roast beef, tuna salad, and smoked turkey breast. The premium deli tray features sliced fresh carved turkey breast, Virginia baked ham, grilled Cajun chicken breast, corned beef brisket, chicken salad, and grilled mixed veggies. Pagano’s sandwich and hoagie offerings are not to be left out! Traditional sandwich trays include roasted turkey breast, tuna salad, roast beef, imported ham, mixed cheese, and smoked turkey breast. Premium hoagies include Italian Classico (made with parma prosciutto), fresh carved turkey breast, homemade chicken salad, grilled Caesar / Cajun chicken breast, grilled mixed veggies with provolone cheese, and corned beef brisket. For premium sandwiches and food descriptions, check out our menus.
Since 1962, Pagano’s has been slicing rib-eye steak—sliced thin and grilled to perfection. This delicious steak meat is used in Pagano’s Philly Cheese Steaks, with provolone or American cheeses, fried or raw onions, hot sliced cherry peppers, pickles, ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. Other favorites include homemade egg salad, tuna salad, turkey pastrami, hot pastrami hoagies, liverwurst, deluxe Italian hoagies, and corned beef specials.
Pagano’s has been Center City’s number one lunch spot since 1999. See for yourself why Philly’s heavy hitters all choose Pagano’s as their place to sit down, roll up their sleeves, and enjoy the best sandwiches, hoagies, chicken cutlets, and fresh salads for their lunches. You never know who will be sitting at the table across from you.
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While tradition is one of the basic ingredients in Pagano’s cooking, we are constantly updating our menus, keeping things fresh and anything but boring. We take pride in using fresh ingredients in all of our dishes, with no additives.
