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For a few months now we’ve been privy to Peter McAndrews’ and Nathan Baynes’ plans to introduce an Italian Market location of their wildly successful Paesano’s Philly Style. Last week word spread that the shop was nearing an open. Hastily, lunch plans were made for that Friday. However, those plans had to regretfully be postponed. Today, after impatiently waiting for five very long days, we were able to stop into the new location on the northwest corner of 9th and Christian, on their first day open to the public.

Following in the footsteps of the first shop on Girard Ave., the owners of Modo Mio have once again impressed us with a little bit of sandwich heaven. Generously, heaven has added four new angels on its menu: The Liveracce, Bolagnese, Meatloaf Parmesan and Pesce Fritti. Aside from new sandwiches, Minestrone soup and a Chopp salad will also find their place as fixtures. With the new location comes a larger kitchen and a dining area that will allow customers to sit down, and enjoy every breathtaking bite.

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• Meal Ticket video maven (and Unbreaded foodie crush) Felicia D. visits Supper to take a look at Mitch Prensky’s DIY bacon wrapped hot dog kit, the perfect Super Bowl snack. [Meal Ticket]

• Favorite under $10 food blog Midtown Lunch has opened up shop in Philadelphia and bites into the po’ boys at Beck’s Cajun Cafe in the Reading Terminal Market. [Midtown Lunch - Philadelphia]

• We took a sneak peak at Noah Bernamoff’s Montreal-style Mile End deli in Brooklyn a few months ago, now GutterGourmet takes a look at the recently opened shop. A sandwich dubbed the “Ruth Wilensky” has been added to the menu, which features pastrami pressed on an onion roll. [Always Hungry]

• Bread Gloves, ’nuff said. If any of our readers are bakers, we expect you to hook us up with a pair of these! [Daily Fork]

Of all the meme blogs we’ve seen on the Internet, this one takes the cake, or is that sandwich? Have you ever wondered where you can find pictures of Tom Selleck, enjoying a cool dip in a waterfall, graced by a hovering sandwich? Over at the Selleck Waterfall Sandwich tumblog you can!

Who is the deranged (genius) person behind all of this? We’re upset there is no contact information to allow us to send in our own Selleck Waterfall Sandwich photos. If you have more information about how this blog came to be, or know the author, please let us know in the comments! Maybe you want to make your own Selleck Waterfall Sandwich photo and post a link to it? We’d be cool with that too.

Grab your special someone this Valentine’s Day, and make a reservation to dine by candlelight, at a table adorned with flowers and decorations at… White Castle. Yes, that’s right, you and your sweetheart can indulge in a special menu (details unmentioned) during reserved hours on Sunday, February 14th in select cities. Hopefully, this special menu will include some sort of variation of their patented “steam-grilled Slyders®” or chicken rings.

According to the press release, “This is the third year we have offered reserved seating for Valentine’s Day dinners. It was a huge hit the past few years. We’re really looking forward to hearing more White Castle stories from our customers that evening.”

They’ll even upload a photo of your romantic candlelit dinner to their website, which will surely make for an unforgettable evening. To top things off though, make sure you visit the House of Crave Online Store for special Valentine’s Day tees or a plush blanket, both adorned with a “Love Castle” logo.

Less than a year after renovating Old City’s Philadelphia Fish & Co. into Q BBQ & Tequila, owners Kevin and Janet Meeker are at it again. The restaurant will change its name to Q BBQ Burgers & Tequila and the menu will now offer over a dozen gourmet burgers, hot dogs, and the option to build your own.

Meal Ticket’s Drew Lazor has a closer look at the revamped menu as well as juicy burger photos by Felicia D.

Q BBQ & Tequila’s new burger menu in pictures [Meal Ticket]

• In a review of a D.C. area shop that serves Philly style sandwiches, the roast pork gets a shout out, and the props it deserves. [Washington Post via The Illadelph]

• A delicious combination of sweet and savory, how could you go wrong with smoked ham, turkey, and Swiss on French toast with berry jam for dipping? [Coconut & Lime]

• David Snyder finds Daniel Stern’s MidAtlantic lacking some focus and execution but the housemade beef neck, short rib, and brisket hot dogs boast “brilliant flavor and texture.” [Philadelphia Citypaper]

• Rick Nichols paid a visit to Michael Schulson’s Sampan, and can’t stop talking about the 24-hour marinated pork belly banh mi. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

It’s been an exciting, sandwich packed year here at Unbreaded. Dare we say, we ate one too many sandwiches. Never! There is no such thing as too many sandwiches. We did however, feel like we should share a few of our favorites from the past year.

Before we get started, let us wish all of our readers a happy, and healthy New Year. Cheers to even more great things coming in 2010. We don’t like the word “best” around here, so hit the jump for our personal sandwich picks of 2009, in no particular order.

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… Subway? Construction of The Freedom Tower, the first new building to rise out of the World Trade Center complex is currently underway, with teams working around the clock. At lunch time, It takes a hungry worker approximately, 30-45 minutess to travel from the top of the structure to ground level, the entire length of their break. To solve this problem, a Subway sandwich shop was commissioned by the Port Authority of New York, and hoisted via shipping container to the top of the building last week.

This is Subway’s first fully functioning store located inside a shipping container, and will be incrementally raised as the building grows. When construction of the Freedom Tower is completed in 2013, it could quite possibly be the highest sandwich shop in the world.

Sandwich shop opens at tower rising at ground zero [Associated Press] (Thanks to Greg Paradee)