On a quiet, residential street in Astoria, Queens, sits Sal, Kris, and Charlie’s — a no-frills deli that’s been serving the neighborhood since 1987. The hole-in-the-wall shop, owned and operated by brothers Nick and John Gordon, is serving one of the most famous (and biggest) sandwiches in all five boroughs: the Bomb.
The Bomb is big. Really big. So big that people often order the sandwich to stretch across multiple meals or share it with a couple of friends. The deli’s now internet-famous Italian sub consists of salami, roast beef, turkey, ham, sliced chicken, mortadella, pepperoni, American cheese, provolone, mayo, oil, vinegar, lettuce, tomato, onions, salt, sweet pickled peppers and hot pickled peppers all squished between a locally baked, sesame-seeded sub roll.
Watch to see how it’s made and to learn how ‘The Bomb’ became the most talked-about Italian sub in New York.
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34 Comments
Would pick up an Italian special when flying out of nearby Laguardia Airport to eat on the plane. Would get
Lots of stares.
You have such great content on this channel, thank you for sharing!
that garbage doesnt look any better then the rest of sadnwich shops!
IT BOMBS OUT
its a bomb in New York because most of there customers are high! loll drug addicts
25 dollar sandwich . You can stick the bomb right up your a hole for that price.
No American employees though…no thx.
The more I learn, the more curious I get.
Looks like an Italian sub.
Quick comment: This sandwich: looks like the restaurant chef's recipe. I will be sure to have one myself when in NYC.
Please come down south! We would love you here !
What a sweet story!
looks good but i personally cant stand big, packed sandwiches with all those condiments. it's a texture thing. would still try one
I'm so hungry right now gotta go get one of the bombs
Too much is Too much. Sorry, not balanced and no mayonnaise on an Italian sub!
Next time i'm in NYC… I'm on my way!!
No… I didn't want someone to make a documentary about this spot. It's a spot only for Astorians or Queens people, please don't raise the price anymore. These are one of those places you gatekeep from people.
This is a thing?? Check your head NYC..
Oh…I can tell just by looking at this video how great that sub is. I went to school in upstate and we had a town sub shop – Aunt Cookie's that made sandwiches like that. Great video. Total food porn!
I love this sort of content, do more and quick
I'm from Astoria and I love this spot.
What's a heerow?
How much does a large bomb cost (12”)
Something makes me think this is cash-only….I just can't put my finger on it 😂😂😂
Looks good . The only way I’d go is the bomb. Nobody likes to pay extra for toppings of a sub….
The bomb does seem like the only good deal. Since all the topping cost 8.50$ fully loaded . A turkey is what 12.00$ + fully loaded 8.60
So fully loaded turkey is 20.50$ish
And a bomb you get multiple meats. Unless it’s the same weight . Either way dosnt make sence
That sandwich legitimately looks beautiful. I'm stuck on the west coast and I'm thinking of buying a plane ticket.
The bomb looks reminiscent to a sub I had in childhood. It had 2-3 types of meat, white cheese, thin shreds of lettuce like that, thin onions, tomatoes, pickles, and a smooth sub bun. 🤔 I cannot recall who made it.
Tony’s beechhurst deli way better
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The sandwich looks delicious. Let me guess: the customers are young professionals, college educated, $200,000 in debt, complain they'll never buy a house, can't save money, can't make a sandwich at home.
You all can have my mortadella. Fine without it.
I have just enough of a dark sense of humour that I would to see mayor-elect Mamdani come in and order that sandwich.😂 I’ll show myself out now.
im 99% positive you can mimick a sandwich…. actually, fuck that, im 100% possitive
Was my lunch place from the late 80’s through 1999 when we left Astoria because it was being overrun by foreigners and yuppy types and everything became so fake and expensive. Back then sandwiches didn’t have cute little names and there wasn’t any social media BS.
Funny thing is I don’t remember none of these people, I distinctly remember Sal and his little “mangias,” I always felt privileged to receive one straight from his hand.
I also remember another guy very distinctly who to me was the face of the deli, he was straight up Italian, mid 30’s at the time with slicked back brown hair. Definitely ran the place, anyone help me with who he was?