Matera's Italian Market - Rutherford

The best sandwiches in NJ! Real Italian bread quality fresh cold cuts ingredients. Fabulous deli case prepared foods. A wonderful selection of fine imported meats Italian goods. Trendy, spotless, a true Italian deli. The real deal. Excellent service as well. Fair prices. Try the Italian Hero one of the amazing stuffed breads.

Good place for sandwiches, meats, and other authentic Italian foods. I recently tried some of the frozen soups and they were pretty vile. I?d highly advise to stay away from them?especially the chicken and the Italian Wedding soup. I could be wrong, but there doesn?t seem like much quality control as far as the freshness of the soups are concerned. There are no dates on the containers, so who knows when they were actually made and for how long they have been sitting in the freezer. The Italian Wedding soup and the chicken soup were extremely disappointing and not worth the purchase. I tossed both of them in the trash and had no qualms about it. The Italian Wedding soup tasted off and was quite disgusting, to be frank. Other than that, their frozen dinners are pretty good and their sandwiches are satisfying. They also have a lot of nice Italian desserts and sweets that you don?t see in many places, other than Italy itself. Overall, I?d recommend to check the place out as long as you heed my advice.

My visit to Matera?s deserves somewhere between 4 and 5 stars. I stopped in on a Monday afternoon and the place was packed with high schoolers eating. Any time a place is popping like that during the week, it?s a good sign. I went in with a few recommendations for a first timer, but I ended up going with the H7 and I?m glad I did. It was one of the best vodka chicken Parms I?ve ever had. The woman asked what kind of bread I wanted and I let her choose. She recommended the ciabatta, and it was the single best ciabatta I?ve ever had. It perfectly soaked up the vodka sauce while maintaining perfect crispness on the outside. It was a little different from a standard chicken parm in that there were big pieces of mozz on top of the chicken instead of just one melted layer. Awesome, awesome, awesome sandwich!

The Hot Food in the case amazing. Presentation beautiful stuffed breads amazing either by a whole one or by the peace delicious we had stuffed Bread with ricotta and spinach mozzarella cheese delicious everything I wanted to have a pound of it if I couldn have. It was delightful just to be there and smell the this smells in the Kitchen of everything being cooked what a delight. What a delight being right in front of me the olive oils all the many kinds of olives behind the glass Looking So- Delious, the fresh cheeses it was just delightful to be in the store beautiful tables just sitting there looking around seeing the custom baskets being made right in front of us it was delightful to have a nice meal there a dinner to go or take something with us which we did we ate some lunch there and then we took something with us.then we came back the following day we got something else as well and we don't live in the area but it was just that nice of a place.The food was Outragious.We had visited the Newly finished upstairs room with Memo the room is beautiful room for any kind of events with Windows all the way around on Park Avenue well worth any event you may have Michael in the staff will accommodate I'm sure very large screen TV on the wall to help accommodate any parties the what time you come dating tables as needed bathroom facilities as well as a refrigerator in the bar area is upstairs as well. Everybody should go there experience it.

The 7-day appetizers ordered. The chicken marsala had no marsala and the chicken francaise was terrible. The chicken was so hard to even try with a steak knife to cut it does not work. I had to throw everything away. The meatball parm was tasteless. The penne in vodka sauce was dry as bones. The only good dinner was the eggplant parm and that was just okay. I called and Chris sent me two chicken dinners and they were the same. It cost me $60 and what a waste of money. You should find a new cook/cook. I wanted to talk to Michael, but he was never there. I will not order these meals again. Too bad because the sandwiches are pretty good. Last year a wet mozzarella bought and it was mad. I'm sorry, guys for the bad evaluation.