Review: Piada

Piada’s Danesi cappuccino, made with love.

I started coming to Piada for their fabulous coffee – smooth, tasty and foam so thick it could spackle the walls of your house. As it turns out – their food is also great! Love the salads (huge) and soup (lots of people come just for the minestrone) but their specialty are the piada sandwiches. According to wiki, a piada (or piadina), is basically an Italian flatbread sandwich that is served hot with some sort of combo of Italian meat/cheese/veggie/sauce inside. They make a number of different types of Piadas including a daily and weekly special, but my hands-down favorite is off the regular menu and is called The Strada – salami, pecorino and balsamic vinegar.

Inside Piada’s Strada – salami, pecorino and balsamic

I always get the half piada – even though they look thin they are super filling.

Piada half sandwich

Regular Piada sandwich: ginormous

Just when I couldn’t like Piada and the lovely folks there more, they named a weekly special after me! Long story short, a few months ago I tweeted this, and a week later I walk in to see this sign on the counter:

The Ahu at Piada

They seem to rotate the weekly specials every 3-4 weeks, get your ‘Ahu’ today!

Piada’s ‘The Ahu’. Yes, I taste delicious!

Piada is also a bit of a gathering spot for all the attractive European folks from Citigroup Center and the vicinity and they have a nice flat screen and it’s always turned to soccer or sports! They are a fantastic gem in this neighborhood and I look forward to seeing what delicious things they have brewing in the future!

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Piada – feeding the hardworking folks in Midtown Manhattan and making foodie-dreams come true since 2009.