Todaro’s Salumeria

When you’re desperate for a taste of the city (heroes, pasta salads, mozzarella…), I guess this place then ranks as a borough-​styled deli, however, if you’re from the city, it’s a grave disappointment. It’s over-​rated due to the shortage of such places anywhere around. Not particularly fresh ingredients, but worst of all… it’s dirty! Don’t look at their slicing machine before you bite into that sandwich or you will lose your appetite. Bits of meat, cheese and unidentifiable debris is nested all over and under it. The flies are more than a nuisance buzzing around you, and landing on various uncovered food items. A real turn off, and a poor portrayal of a NYC borough deli. Please… clean the place!

Wants to be an import from Brooklyn’s 18^th Avenue, but is compromised by its backwater, Central NY state geography and sensibility. If you like that sort homogeneity in your Italian deli experience, you will enjoy Todaro’s.
Let’s start with the basics. Todaro’s is a local market, first and foremost, so they carry the usual stuff you gotta have if you are setting up house in the mountains — be it for a few days or weeks or to stock a second home. For us, it is a convenient (if pricey) one stop shop for most any sort of ingredients needed to prepare an authentic Italian meal up here, including a nice selection of imported meats, sausage, cheese, pasta, condiments, produce, spices — and even the equipment needed to crank out home made pasta. When I am too lazy to drive dozens of miles one way or another to a larger market for supplies, this is where I shop.
The prepared food/​subs are another matter. For starters, the bread used for their sandwiches — central to any decent salumeria experience — lacks the texture and crunch of great Italian sandwich loaves and eats more like something from Subway or Blimpies, because it is tasteless and gets overly soggy when dressed with oil and vinegar. Great bread would improve the subs by 200%. With all the wonderful regional bakeries available to Todaro’s (e.g. Bread Alone, Tivoli) I’m surprised they don’t source better. But the quantity and quality of meats and cheese used in the sandwich makes up for this to some extent. The Todaro’s Special is the sub to have — with plenty of quality cold cuts (cappy, salami, ham, provolone, etc.) and a nice selection of toppings (lettuce, tomato, roasted peppers, onions, oil, vinegar/​etc) to suit most anyone. I like scarfing down a whole one of these sitting outside the shop on a nice day, with some Italian bitters. They also carry a standard array of cold antipasti that you would expect to find at any decent Italian deli — nothing startlingly terrific — but tasty and convenient.
Overall — the Todaro’s experience is a pleasing old school deli counterpoint to the ongoing gentrification of Windham — and its influx of gastropub obsessed beardies.

The sandwiches and prepared foods here are great! I usually get a hero and split it with my friend. Additionally, my parents like to buy the prepared foods for some easy cooking after a long day of skiing. The meatballs and eggplant parm are delicious. The only reason it’s not five stars is because we’ve had a few times where the meatballs either had freezer burn, or did not taste consistent. However, these instances were far and few between.

i ordered up a nice weekend full of food for 12 hungry long island guys spending the weekend upstate. I picked up the 3 foot Italian hero, some salads, and a few trays of food. Everything was awesome. The meats and cheeses were all on point, and to top it all off, the bread was amazing. I would definitely give this place all five stars for the quality, quantity of the food, and for the customer service.

Well there is good and bad when it comes to this place. The sausage and other various Italian items they sell there are pretty tasty. My issue comes in when the sandwiches come into play. Myself and some friends went in and we ordered three sandwiches. The sandwiches were about 8 bucks a piece when said and done with tax. I ordered a meatball parm hero and once I started eating it I noticed the meatballs to be dry with no sauce and no cheese. A pretty decent disappointment since it was supposed to be a meatball parm. My buddy got an eggplant parm on a roll and it too had no cheese on it. He did state that the eggplant was good. The third sandwich was a roast beef and mayo on a wrap. There was literally two slices of roast beef on the sandwich.
The service was also not very friendly. The only person who was pleasant to us was the owner. The cashier was rude/​moody with us as well as the woman that took our order.

If I want a sandwich this is always the place I go to. It can get expensive but the sandwich is always great and filling.

GREAT sandwiches, and italian deli items, fresh baked breads and pastries. It’s a go to place when i am in upstate NY.