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Portland, ME

Amato's Sandwich Shop

Sandwiches, Italian, Maine Italian

71 India St, Portland, ME 04101, USA

71 India St, Portland, ME 04101, USA

Hours
  • Mon · Today9 AM – 9 PM
  • Tue9 AM – 9 PM
  • Wed9 AM – 9 PM
  • Thu9 AM – 9 PM
  • Fri9 AM – 9 PM
  • Sat9 AM – 9 PM
  • Sun9 AM – 8 PM

From the local food press

Editor’s picks from published local guides
  • Giovanni Amato sold bread from a cart to Portland dock workers around 1902 and by 1910 he and his wife Michillina were stuffing ham, cheese and vegetables inside it, which the Press Herald records as the start of the Maine Italian. The company now has fifty-two locations across New England, but this India Street shop is the original and the one the paper photographs. Order an Italian, ham and American cheese under the vegetables the first customers settled on.

    Picks from Portland Press Herald

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