The history that you find on Sam's Italian Deli website explains that a young Italian couple living in Canada decided to open up a grocery business in 1968. While fighting the fierce Toronto winters, they and their two children sold the freshest produce, meats, hot bread and foods of their native Bari, Italy.
Sam and Angela Marziliano opened Sam's Deli in Fresno in 1980, after relocating here from Toronto. Sam, the family patriarch and founder of Sam's passed away in 2011. Nick has taken the reins and has simply taken a great thing and make it better! And it still improves to this date.
The aisles of the deli are a delightful scene of imported Italian pastas, olive oils, fresh cold cuts, imported cheeses, Angela's take-home pasta dinners, specialty dishes, Sam's homemade sausage and specialty groceries. Their bread and foccacia are baked on site and the heritage of old Italy is preserved within the walls of this fantastic deli located at the north-west corner of Clinton and First streets in Fresno.
With Nick's direction, Sam's Italian Deli has grown, taking over most of the entire corner building with but a couple of small businesses yet occupying a couple of spaces. Sam's Deli pastas are actually made in the area which used to be the back of the old US Post office that occupied the far end of the building.
Further, Nick is gaining massive attention in the Fresno Area for his expansion of their specialty wine department. If you want it, they have it! From the boutique style wines of California to the highly sought after, Super Tuscans, Barolo's, and Brunellos di Montalcino produced in Italy to Argentinean Malbecs. You will have a difficult time picking your favorites from Sam's Italian Deli's collection of over 700 different labels. Further, Nick has reached out to the internet market and made it easy for you to purchase them on line at his website www.NicksWineCorner.com.
On June 16, 2014, Henry Perea spoke of Sam's Italian Deli, "Their commitment to serving the community and expanding their business has been passed down to the next generation as Nick continues to run the business and bring the business online. Congratulations to Sam's Deli!" This statement made when Sam's Deli was honored in Sacramento on that date as the 31st Assembly District's Small Business of the Year "for their Italian spirit and familial feel that has customers enter as strangers and leave as family."
Thank you, Nick and Sam's Italian Deli!
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