Welcome to Santoro’s Italian Market & Deli
Serving Alameda’s best sandwiches since 2009!

The owners and staff of Santoro’s Italian Market & Deli take pride in providing the freshest hand-made Italian Deli sandwiches as well as snacks, sodas, beer, wine and many Italian delicacies. All sandwiches feature the finest Boar’s Head meats and fresh Semifreddi’s breads delivered daily. Visit us at 475 Santa Clara Avenue at the corner of 5th Street.
We encourage you to call in your order before you come to the deli. Please note walk-in orders may have to wait 30-40 minutes because we must prepare delivery orders immediately—drivers are sent for the order as soon as it is placed.
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When in doubt, call us! Whether you want to dine in, take out, or schedule catering, calling directly helps us to expedite all orders so that no one has to wait, including you!
We serve you the food we eat! We always offer excellent service, sometimes with a little attitude.
All of our bread is soft. It is delivered every morning, we do not use day old bread, with the exception of the sliced bread. We do not serve the sliced bread if it is less than perfect.
Three people run our deli. We cut everything fresh-to-order for every sandwich. To decrease your waiting time, PLEASE call ahead, especially if you have a special request.
Ww often have a large volume of people calling in lunch orders all at the same time. If you get our answering machine, please do not leave a message. It means that we are helping customers on the other line. Please call back to speak to one of us. If you don’t want to wait, please call in your order earlier in the day. We won’t make your order until you are coming to pick it up.
When you walk in, there are order forms on the counter. Use a highlighter to select your choices clearly so we can read them. If your order is unclear, it will slow down the process for all our other orders after you and make people wait unnecessarily.
If there are high school students in the deli, please understand that they have called in their orders in advance and will get their sandwiches first. The ones who didn’t call must be prioritized to get back to school on time; they come every day.
Michael strongly suggests that you do not put all the available vegetables and condiments on your sandwiches. Why? Because we serve only the highest quality Boar’s Head and imported meats, and we want you to be able to taste them! If you’re not sure what goes best on your sandwich, ask us!
We do not allow substitutions on the Combo sandwiches, only deletions.
Due to the increase in telephone orders during lunch, we cannot accept toasted sandwich orders after 11AM. Please call early if you want a toasted sandwich. Toasting a sandwich costs $2.00 in addition to the sandwich price because we bake each one in the oven and requires up to 30 mins to prepare from time of order.
If you want a specific bread or roll, (i.e. Dutch crunch or sourdough) please call ahead to make sure it hasn’t sold out and we can hold it for you.
All of the products in Santoro’s Market & Italian Deli deli (salads, chips, pastas, sweets, drinks, etc.) are on the shelves for a reason. If people don’t like them or buy them, we get rid of them. We only carry what sells.
We do not have a bathroom for customer use.
If you have questions that are not answered here, please call the deli before 11AM or after 1:30PM, otherwise we will be too busy to answer your questions.







Available services and menus
Santoro’s can provide platters of sandwiches, cold cuts, and other Italian specialties. Call us now to cater your event. To make a request for catering services, please call the deli at (510) 217-8710 and ask for Heidi.