Italian grocery delivery at the Jersey Shore

Why nobody delivers this well

Most Italian groceries in New Jersey are stores. If you want good mozzarella you drive to one, and you go on a day they got a delivery. The grocery delivery services that do exist — the app on your phone — shop the same supermarket shelves you would, and their driver’s car isn’t refrigerated.

We come at it from the other end. We’re a distributor. We already run refrigerated trucks along the shore and inland four days a week, supplying restaurants, pizzerias and Italian markets. Fresh mozzarella is on our truck the morning it’s made. Adding houses to a route we’re already driving is the easy part.

What you’ll be able to order

• Fresh mozzarella — balls, logs, ciliegine, smoked, plus burrata con panna, burrata con tartufo and stracciatella.
• Ricotta in 1.5 lb and 3 lb tins — the kind you make a proper ricotta pie with.
• Salumi — soppressata, porchetta, guanciale, pancetta, ’nduja. The things you can’t find locally.
• Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano in retail wedges, including 36-month and Vacche Rosse.
• Oro Giallo fresh pasta in twelve shapes, filled pasta, and De Cecco.
• Italian peeled tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil and S. Bernardo water.

Which towns

The three routes we already drive every week, through Monmouth and Ocean counties: