Gallo Nero II

Gallo Nero sell high quality products. If you buy Parma ham, or Speck, for example, elsewhere, it will not taste as good as it does here. Try his olives; particularly the green ones stuffed with anchovies and garlic, are quite delicious. It’s a really nice traditional little shop with the attitude to match.

Looks like an old school Italian deli from the outside — not the best bit of road in London to sell decent food from.
Very near to where I live — I drop in once a month or so. If you arrive early’ish in the day they have a better choice.
But catering /​family packs of fresh filled pasta are pretty good — hands down better than any supermarket variety.
Today I bought wet salt cod — not something you find everywhere. Some great looking and tasting home made pesto (in recycled jars 1 month shelf life. My daughter loves it), an obscure soup pasta that I have never seen, some italian butter (pale and beautifully packaged), and some aforementioned pumpkin ravioli.

A lovely well stocked Deli — which is in Stoke Newington, not Crouch End as the title suggests.
All the staff are very friendly — and fairly helpful. The deli is very well stocked and to my delight sells Limonata — my favourite Lemon Soda. Some items are pricey, but this is expected when most of the stock is imported.
Great meat and cheese counter, and fresh bread by the door if you get there early enough. Highly recommended.

The only minus point of this great little deli is just that. it’s too little and sometimes you have to wait and queue ages even if ther’s only 3 people in the shop.
It’s an Italian run family business and they are very helpful, knowledgeable and friendly, I even got a free recyclable cloth shopping bag as I bought quite a lot of items.
The meats at the deli counter a great wrapped up in paper not plastic and there is a whole array of Italian goodies. go see!

I went into Gallo Nero II, my local Italian deli the other day to see if they had Fernet Branca, an Italian liquor which according to my friends tastes like cough medicine (fools — It’s a marmite kind of situation). They did, at quite a reasonable price too. As for the rest, they have everything a good deli should have; a glass counter stuffed with meats and cheeses and fresh pasta, shelves laden with everything you could ever need to make an Italian style feast and friendly, if slightly stern staff.
I am not particularly foody and as evidenced by my explanation of why I was in the deli in the first place, I really have no business around fine foods. This might be why the man who works (probably owns) Gallo Nero doesnt seem to like me though he froths all over my Nigella Lawson of a sister though and I often wait outside like a petualnt child as they discuss the best kind of pesto to go with noodles, or pasta or whatever.
It is a beautiful shop and strolling off the high street in to Gallo’s cosy, tavern like interior is about as close I’m going to come to an Italian weekend break any time soon.

Yum! I’ve been looking for an Italian deli close to home and I’ve finally found one. They stock all sorts of tinned tomatoes for making your sauces, plus they have Italian sausage!
In addition to the wide range of Italian dry goods, they also have a deli counter with meats and cheeses that they cut to order and they make their own ravioli and sauces. It’s a tiny shop, but it’s full of everything Italian.