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Anthony's Italian Deli, Arcadia Menu
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Sports Bar, Arcadia Menu
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Restaurants: Anthony’s Italian Deli
and Posse’s Sports Bar
Where: 1212 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia
Phone: (626) 446-3171
Reservations: Not required
Cocktails: Full cocktail service
Service: Counter service
Atmosphere: Casual
Outdoor Dining: Yes
Credit Cards: MC, AMEX, Visa, Discover,
Debit Cards (with Visa or MC logo only)
Kid’s Menu: No
Senior Discount: No
Hours: Anthony’s Open Mon. – Sat.9am –
8pm. Posse’s Mon. – Fri. 11am to midnight, Sat.. and Sun. 9am to midnight
during football season
Food to Go: Yes
Catering Menu: Yes
Price Range: $1.00 - $17.50, avg. $6-10 |
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Anthony's Italian Deli and Posse's Sports Bar are at 1212 S. Baldwin Ave.,
in Arcadia (image has been altered) |
Stuffed bellpeppers at the deli |
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Blue
cheese wedge from Posse's |
Some
of the items at the deli counter |
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Ditto |
Fried
cheese from Posse's menu |
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Garlic bread off deli menu |
Beef
dip off deli menu |
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One
meatball and one sausage, a la carte, from deli menu |
Lasagna from deli menu |
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Full
bar has plenty of TVs for sports viewing |
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DOT COM DINING A Look At San
Gabriel Valley Restaurants by SanGabrielValleyMenus.com
Anthony’s Italian Deli and Posse’s
Sports Bar – Good Food, Good Sports
By Bill Coburn
Due to an unexpected family emergency, I did not get
out and get a review done this week, so I’m reprinting a review I did back in
October, of Anthony’s Deli and Posse’s Sports Bar. In the interest of full
disclosure, I want to make sure you know that since the original column was
written, I began working as a bartender at Posse’s, two shifts a week. One nice
thing about that is, that I’ve had the opportunity to try a lot more of the
food, both from Anthony’s and from Posse’s menu, and I can happily report that
of the menu items I’ve tried, I’ve enjoyed them all. But I’ll stick to the
original items I wrote about, as this is basically a re-print. Please note that
since it was October, some of the sports stuff is different, right now the NCAA
basketball tournament and Santa Anita racing is more likely to be on than the
major league pennant race and Monday night football. But be sure and keep
Posse’s in mind when these events roll around again.
On the premises with Posse’s Sports Bar is Anthony’s
Italian Deli. In the back there’s also a full service restaurant, called
Possemato’s Italian Gourmet, but I’m thinking I’ll do that review another time.
Anthony’s and Posse’s share a dining room area, and you can order food from
either Posse’s or Anthony’s at the counter at Anthony’s, or from the bar in
Posse’s. Steve Possemato runs all three places.
The menu at Anthony’s is not unusual for an Italian
Deli, but the menu at Posse’s, while offering some typical fare such as a ½ lb.
burger, hot dogs, onion rings, sausage of the month, and buffalo wings, also has
some stuff you’ll be hard pressed to find at any other sports bar, I think. Can
you name another sports bar that has a Blue Cheese Wedge? Or a Bay Shrimp
Salad?
In addition, there are seven flat screen TVs located
around the place, and tonight when we were there in the middle of the AL and NL
pennant races, we were able to watch (from our table) both the Dodgers and the
Giants games. We also could watch the Angels game, and the Red Sox game. For
you non-sports fans, all of these games are critical as the season is winding
down because these teams are all in the hunt for the playoffs. Posse’s also has
the ESPN college football package and the NFL package. On Monday nights, they
offer dollar hot dogs, and drawings are being held with the winners getting such
prizes as a TV or a DVD player. Tuesday to Thursday are drink discount nights,
and they offer half a dozen tap beers in addition to several other bottled
beers. And full cocktail service. But one of the ways you’ll know this is a
true sportsman’s bar is that behind the bar during football season, you can see
who the top 10 teams in the nation are by looking at the hats. They change as
the top ten changes. Kind of a neat idea I thought.
But I digress, we’re here to eat. Katie ordered the
Blue Cheese Wedge and we ordered the mozzarella sticks as an appetizer off the
Posse’s menu. From the Anthony’s menu, Keelan ordered the lasagna, which comes
with garlic bread. I ordered a hot roast beef sandwich, with a meatball on the
side, Katie ordered a sausage on the side, and we got an extra side of garlic
bread. So we got a sampling of both menus.
The mozzarella sticks were excellent. Nice and
crisp on the outside, melted and hot on the inside. The marinara sauce was
delicious, and had big chunks of tomato in it, as well. My roast beef sandwich
was on a nice crispy roll, and the beef was so tender I could hardly believe
it. I asked for a side of au jus on the side for dipping, and that was a nice
addition. The meatball was a good size, and the sauce was seasoned quite well,
not overpowering, but definitely Italian. I tried some of Katie’s sausage, and
was impressed with that as well. One surprising thing was that the meatball and
the sausage were just $1.00 each, an excellent deal.
Katie said the Blue Cheese Wedge was really good,
and suggested a couple restaurants she could think of that would charge $6 or $7
for that item, and wouldn’t give you such a good portion of blue cheese
crumbles. Posse’s charges just $2.50. Keelan’s lasagna, was quite good, too.
I asked him what he thought of it, and he said it was “…mmmm” and a little
“yummm” plus a dash of “hhhhmmmmm”. He’s getting more descriptive. I asked
Katie, after she’d tried a bite of it, if it was any good, and her response was
“Oh my God.” As in good, Oh my God, since I know that could be interpreted
differently. I tried it, and agreed, the pasta was cooked just right, the sauce
was excellent, plenty of cheese. Good stuff.
Anyway, everything we had, we enjoyed. The prices
were extremely reasonable, and I can tell you that everything we tried was
delicious. You can find their menus online at
www.sangabrielvalleymenus.com/anthonysdeli.htm and
www.possessportsbar.com.
Stop on by and say hi to Steve at Posse’s and
Anthony’s, and be sure to let them know that you read about them in Dot Com
Dining.
Bill Coburn is owner of SanGabrielValleyMenus.com, a restaurant website
featuring more than 160 restaurant’s menus, as well as downloadable coupons. He has
nearly 20 years experience in the restaurant business, and has been eating for
much longer than that. |
