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Casa Lu

Erina Starkey

Casa Lu

Italian$

Italian-style sandwiches on stone-baked schiacciata.

Casa Lu’s porchetta sandwich.

A sandwich shop is causing serious queues on Kembla Street, with locals lining up for its bubbled Tuscan flatbread and Italian-style fillings.

Check the sandwich board for the full line-up. There’s the mandatory mortadella topped with stracciatella, green olives and crushed pistachios, as well as a sensational slow-cooked porchetta sanger, layered with crispy potatoes and crackling that tastes like a roast dinner in a roll.

Owners Keana Lufe and Maria Luciani do not cut corners. The stone-baked schiacciata bread is baked daily and all the sauces are made from scratch. Deli meats are sliced to order, while soft Italian cheeses are blow-torched for extra melt.

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Erina StarkeyErina StarkeyErina is the Good Food App Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously, Erina held a number of editing roles at delicious.com.au and writing roles at Broadsheet and Concrete Playground.

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