{"id":272742,"date":"2026-05-15T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:49:11","slug":"cousin-vinnys-expanding-to-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272742\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousin Vinny\u2019s Expanding to St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Now <a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/tampa\/restaurants\/cousin-vinnys-to-open-first-brick-and-mortar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> back in August 2023 on plans for Cousin Vinny\u2019s Sandwich Co.\u2014then a purely delivery- and takeout-based business\u2014to open its first brick-and-mortar sandwich shop. It has now been successfully operating for some time at 1331 W Cass Street, and it\u2019s building on that success with an expansion to a second location.<\/p>\n<p>For its second sandwich shop, Cousin Vinny\u2019s Sandwich Co. is headed to St. Pete\u2019s Grand Central District, where submitted plan review documents show a new Cousin Vinny\u2019s in the works at 2063 Central Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Cousin Vinny\u2019s menu features sandwiches served on Schiaccata (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cousinvinnystampa.com\/menus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuscan-style bread that\u2019s thinner, crispier and baked in-house until golden\u2026 the Cousin to focaccia<\/a>), including the Uncle Jun (capicola, arugula, housemade pecorino cream, housemade red pesto) and the Tomei &amp; Mozz (housemade fresh mozzarella, tomato, arugula, housemade pesto, aioli).<\/p>\n<p>But the restaurant is best known for its cutlet sandwiches, served on Italian bread lightly toasted with garlic spread. There\u2019s the Tony Piccante (Hand Breaded Chicken Cutlet, House Made Spicy Vodka Sauce, Roasted Red Peppers, Ricotta Cheese, Mozzarella Cheese), That Louie (Hand Breaded Chicken Cutlet, House Made Pesto Aioli, Roasted Red Peppers, Mozzarella Cheese).<\/p>\n<p>As coverage by St. Pete Rising <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/michelin-recommended-cousin-vinnys-bringing-chicken-cutlet-sandwiches-to-st-pete\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>, Cousin Vinny\u2019s Sandwich Co. was recently recommended by the Michelin Guide. It\u2019s expected to open in the Central Avenue location, previously home to Little Philly, \u201cby the end of 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up with all things Cousin Vinny\u2019s by following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cousinvinnyssandwichco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@cousinvinnyssandwichco<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Now reported back in August 2023 on plans for Cousin Vinny\u2019s Sandwich Co.\u2014then a purely delivery- and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-272742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}