Martinez:
Syracuse’s Westcott neighborhood picked up a new place to eat this week. Yesterday, Cure Delicatessen and Provisions opened up shop. Co-owner Tere Martini keeps her objective simple.
Martini:
“I just want to feed people like they were coming to sit at my kitchen table.”
Martinez:
Martini knows the Westcott neighborhood quite well. She was the headquarters manager at Recess Coffee, less than a minute’s walk from Cure. Martini partnered up with the owners of Recess to open the new deli, and they wanted to stay in the neighborhood.
Martini:
“There’s a great demographic of a lot of different cultures and ages, and lots of different walks of life that come together in the Westcott nation. So that’s why we’re here.”
Martinez:
Here at Cure, the big seller is the homemade pastrami sandwich. Several customers called ahead. Others sat in line to wait to get their hands on one of these. This one that I have, it’s the last one for today
Martinez:
It’s only the second full day of business, and already Cure has its first repeat customer. Meet Dusty Mihaich: he works at the Westcott theater down the block. He says lunch can be repetitive so any new food spot is welcome.
Mihaich
“It starts getting stale when you’re eating the same 3 or 4 places every week. It’s nice to see growing business on Westcott.”
Martinez:
Cure Delicatessen and Provisions takes over at 466 Westcott a year after Picasso’s Pastries closed for good. Martini and her fellow co owners join the other 543,000 small businesses that start up each year nationwide. Only a little more than half of them will make it to year five. Fortunately for Syracuse sandwich lovers, Cure’s owners are already experienced. Manny Martinez, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News)– There’s a new spot in town if you’re in the mood for a sandwich.
Cure Delicatessen & Provisions opened up shop Wednesday in the city’s Westcott neighborhood. The new deli takes over at 466 Westcott Street a year after Picasso’s Pastries closed shop for good at that location.
Tere Martini was a manager at Recess Coffee’s headquarters in the neighborhood. She partnered with the owners of Recess to start the deli. Martini’s main objective is simple.
“I just want to feed people like they were coming to sit at my kitchen table,” said Martini.”
She knows the area well. She graduated from SUNY-ESF and worked a minute’s walk from where Cure now is. To her and her fellow co-owners, staying in the neighborhood made too much sense.
“There’s a great demographic of a lot of different cultures and ages, and lots of different walks of life that come together in the Westcott nation,” said Martini. “So that’s why we’re here.”
Dusty Mihaich holds the honor of being Cure’s first repeat customer. He went Wednesday and came back Thursday for more. Mihaich works down the block, and a new lunch spot is something he’d been waiting for.
“It starts getting stale when you’re eating the same 3 or 4 places every week,” said Mihaich. “It’s nice to see growing business on Westcott.”
Cure Delicatessen & Provisions joins approximately 543,000 other small businesses to open up this year across the country. Only a little more than half of them will make it to their fifth year.
Fortunately for Syracuse sandwich lovers, the owners at Cure have small business experience.
