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After 4pm each day, A & L Deli Ristorante in Palm Coast undergoes a transformation.
It changes from being a busy daytime deli to an elegant night-time Italian restaurant.
“We change the set,” said Susan Linton, the owner. “We use different lighting and
different place-settings.” Candlelights on each table at night lend
a warm and friendly atmosphere to the restaurant.
A & L Deli & Catering added the dinner service in March 2008. Located at
the Palm Harbor Shopping Center, it now offers breakfast, lunch and dinner as well
as catering for events such as weddings and bar mitzvahs. It offers a full range
of classic Italian dining favorites that include New York pastrami on its lunchtime
menu to dinner entrees of mussels marinara, eggplant rollatini, fresh broccoli rabe
with chicken or shrimp, pasta putanesca and chicken piccata.
Susan set up the business in 2005 when she moved to Palm Coast from Frederick,
Maryland where she ran a breakfast to lunch bagel shop for four years. She’s originally
from Long Island, New York but now with her family by her side she runs a successful
restaurant. Susan has a butcher come in especially to do specialty meat
cutting for her dishes.
Prices are affordable too. There are specials each day for lunch and dinner. A lunch
special with soup costs either $5.95 or $6.95 and dinner entrees range in price
from $9 to $13. Most of the restaurant’s business comes from word of mouth. “Our
customers are making this a success,” Susan said.
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