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Where We Shop: Three Brothers Italian Market
A little bit of Little Italy.
By
Todd Kliman
,
Ann Limpert
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Cynthia Hacinli
,
Kate Nerenberg
,
Rina Rapuano
Published Monday, January 05, 2009
Mario Repole, co-owner of Three Brothers Italian Market, stands amid the bounty at his Bladensburg store. Photograph by Chris Leaman.
Whether you're shopping for a big pasta dinner or just restocking the pantry, Three Brothers Italian Market is hard to beat. The range of goods is impressive—one-pound tins of rosemary leaves and colorful jars of spicy pickled peppers share shelf space with sauce pots, pans, and pasta makers.
Impressive, too, are the low prices. You won't find any $7.99-a-pound pastas here—the most expensive artisanal variety costs $3.99 a pound, with most brands around $2. Hard-to-find shapes include the zitilike occhi di lupo and giant tube-shaped paccheri. Plan on a trip to Three Brothers' red-sauce restaurant next door before leaving—the smells wafting into the market make it hard to resist getting a slice of pizza and a cannoli before heading home. Three Brothers Italian Market, 4521 Kenilworth Ave., Bladensburg; 301-864-1570. This article appeared in the January, 2009 issue of The Washingtonian. More>> Best Bites Blog | Food & Dining | Restaurant Finder
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Comments
Although I haven’t been to Three Brothers I have been to Litteri. The hygiene there was in- existant!! I’m half Italian and was totally disgusted when I picked up some hard to find sealed packs of closed mixed pasta not only with long gone expired dates on them - in Italy it’s compulsory on ALL food - but with what certainly appeared to be rodent droppings on them!! Is there no sanitary control in places like this in the States??!!
Posted by: mary, Apr 23, 2009 06:13:01 AM
Wow, talk about over rated. Three Brothers is far inferior. As the commenter above says, go to A. Litteri. Better cheese selection, better cold cuts (Three Brothers did not even have Proscuttini, subs, better selection of pasta, olive oil, bread, everything. While Litteri’d does not have have the cookies and pies, the overall quality far surpasses Three Brothers. Where does the Washingtonian get off on selecting Three Brothers. Have they been to Litteri I wonder.
Posted by: Steve, Mar 29, 2009 06:02:17 PM
The market may be fine (and cheap), but the food in the restaurant is horrible. Standard, crappy Italian-American fair--bloated, overcooked pasta; dry, doughy pizza; and soggy salads (with the occaisional human hair for protein). Pretty horrendous stuff.
Posted by: JT, Jan 12, 2009 07:18:27 AM
Sounds great, but you can’t beat A. Litteri on Morse Street in Northeast - the floor-to-ceiling authentic products, good prices, easy to get to AND a deli counter in the back. One of our favorite finds in our neighborhood.
Posted by: Capital Spice, Jan 07, 2009 02:46:09 PM
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