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- Heavy Metal Sausage Co.
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Heavy Metal Sausage Co.
Whether you crave a lieberwurst sandwich on housemade bread, fresh country pâté to go, or a blowout multicourse dinner, Heavy Metal Sausage Co. has you covered. No culinary corner handcrafts more — or with nerdier ambition — than this South Philly storefront run by chef Patrick Alfiero and Melissa Pellegrino. A dozen deli meats, from smoked turkey to finocchiona, are used for the distinctive sandwiches (try the Poppe with zungenblutwurst and leek relish on marbled rye). The trattoria dinners, meanwhile, have evolved into some of the most adventurous meal tickets in town, with two seatings for a dozen diners to savor creative plates inspired by local ingredients spun through an Italian lens and ever-changing themes. A recent all-goat menu, which bounded from a charcuterie platter with goat mortadella to a goat tartare with chiles and peaches, pasta with braised goat ragù, and goat’s milk gelato for dessert, was among the year’s most memorable meals.
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