Reviewing a restaurant each week for Ticket magazine, I've sampled plenty of excellent food so far in 2018. That said, the hot pastrami sandwich at downtown Canton's new Salumeria di Torre Italian Deli & Market was as memorably delicious as anything I've eaten this year. I enjoyed it even more than the towering corned beef-on-rye sandwich I had in January at the much-loved Cleveland deli landmark Slyman's.

At Salumeria, six ounces of premium pastrami are sliced to order, then heated in the deli's panini press to melt the fat just so. If you order the House Pastrami sandwich, the warmed meat is piled on grilled sourdough bread, with melted fontina cheese, and fresh slaw made from cabbage, peppers, onions and balsamic vinaigrette. The tender pastrami is wondrous.