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“A Varese classic ”

Golden Egg Bar Paninoteca
Ranked #19 of 408 Restaurants in Varese
Price range: R 164 - R 329
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Good for: Child-friendly
Dining options: After-hours, Breakfast, Takeout
Reviewed 1 June 2016 via mobile

What can I say? This place has been there since before I was born. No glitches in quality as far as I can taste. Get a Palmito and enjoy life- some things are best unchanged by time or fashion. Golden Egg never disappoints.

Date of visit: June 2016
1  Thank Stefano21022
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Reviewed 23 March 2016 via mobile

Really amazing and unique sandwiches. If you are chilling in the center of varese you must try this paninoteca. I'm pretty sure that you will be happy to try sandwiches with different tastes. My favourite ones are palmito and cipollata. .enjoy

Date of visit: June 2015
Thank vareseit
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Reviewed 10 September 2015

I am customer of this pub since when I was 14 and sandwich are ever superlative!
Even if the pub is very small, sandwiches aren't !
A must if you are in Varese

Date of visit: August 2015
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Thank FMC64
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Reviewed 8 December 2014

You must be kidding! I expect to find such spot in New York or London, not certainly in a little italian province.
If they were american they'd already have at least 1.000 franchises!

The best ever sandwich I've ever tasted in my life! Just incredible, impossible to tell, go and try!

Date of visit: September 2014
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2  Thank The_Gourmand2014
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Reviewed 25 June 2012

This is where the locals come to celebrate their nostalgia for the early 1980s. It seems there is a kind of cult around this place that certainly is confusing for visitors. The whole place is stuffed with memorabilia from the past 30 years: postcards, pictures, trophys, souvenirs.
The interior looks a little bit aged (call it patina, or call it grimey if you like) with wooden wainscottings and only two low benches in a small corner. Seems that the general public agrees to buy their sandwiches here, but to eat them sitting on the stairs outside of the shop on the other side of the street.

Please do not get me wrong, I sure can appreciate a traditional place that somehow managed to transport your childhood memories into present day. But I really wonder how nostalgia can obscure the fact that the sandwiches are made with questionable ingredients that come out of army-sized cans and tasteless bread that absorbs every last bit of water in your mouth until your whole throat is clogged up. Good that they also sell draught beer to flush down the sandwiches. Bad that they mainly sell Warsteiner, the worst out of Germany's premium beers. And come on, almost TEN Euros for a sandwich and a beer? You have to look very hard to find a place in any of Europe's capitals where you would spend that much for such a humble meal.
But the worst thing is that the people working here are not friendly at all, it rather looked like our presence had somehow bothered them, maybe because we interrupted them chatting with each other and reading their email.
I think, that looking at the "Golden Egg" without having your pink "nostalgia" sunglasses on, this is just a shabby joint run by grumpy people who sell stuff that you can get anywhere else, better and cheaper.

Date of visit: June 2012
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11  Thank krentenbolletje
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