Plainview Colossus: Coliseum Kitchen
Coliseum Kitchen, Plainview Credit: Joan Reminick
The new Coliseum Kitchen in Plainview is your friendly neighborhood deli — raised to the nth power. The 10,000-square-foot giant is a spinoff of the well-established Coliseum Caterers Deli in Uniondale.
In addition to a catering arm, the new Plainview spot features cafeteria-style dining and takeout morning-till-night: omelets, salads, sandwiches, burgers, barbecue, and brick oven pizza, to name just a few options.
At lunch, I was most impressed by the crusty baguettes used for sandwiches; I was subsequently told that bakeries supplying the place include the first-rate Tom Cat Bakery in Long Island City and Eli’s in Manhattan. What I liked best was a peppery rare sliced steak sandwich. Some tweaking was in order for the “Pilgrim” sandwich made with honey maple turkey, watercress and vegetable cream cheese on a cranberry nut baguette. Cream cheese on a turkey sandwich? Quick, get out the mayo or mustard. A slice of Margherita pizza was respectable, if not exemplary.
Coliseum Kitchen offers delivery within an hour to Plainview, Bethpage, Woodbury and Melville and is located at 1660 Old Country Rd., Plainview, 516-483-4900, coliseumcaterers.com
