I wanted to come out with a sub that’s as powerful as anything in town, but at the same time have other elements as well,” owner Glenn Plantone tells me of the vision behind his recently opened Plantone’s Italian Market on Warm Springs just west of Durango.

Let’s start with the initial goal in that statement. Plantone does indeed make the best Italian sub this city has served up since Chef Marc Sgrizzi closed his Italian market, Parma, in 2015.