Nardelli’s new Norwalk location opens doors
The new Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe was bustling with a lunchtime crowd on Thursday, three days after its grand opening.
The sandwich shop, located at 345 Main Ave., opened its new location on Feb. 28.
“People are really enjoying it. It’s been a long time coming and I’m so happy that I can bring Nardelli’s to lower Fairfield County,” said Matthew Youngs, franchisee of the Norwalk location.
Due to the pandemic and supply shortages, Nardelli’s
Norwalk location opened three months after originally intended.
“A lot of customers have known our delis very well and have traveled into Central
Connecticut to have it, and they no longer have to do that,” said Youngs, who plans to open up to five new locations in the next six years.
The franchise has been voted the No.1 grinder in Connecticut for nine years in a row by The Best of Connecticut contest run by Connecticut Magazine. Menu items include more than 30 hot and cold grinders, with ingredients such as prosciutto hot pepper chicken, chicken cutlet, roasted turkey club and chipotle grilled chicken.
The family-owned brand first opened in Connecticut in 1922 by brothers Giuseppe, Antonio and Frederico Nardelli, who had left their Italian hometown eight years earlier, according to Nardelli’s website.
Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe has 16 locations in Connecticut, including in Danbury, Southbury, Milford, Oxford, Waterbury, Naugatuck, Meriden, Torrington, Cromwell and Middletown.
Nardelli’s is open Monday through Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.