Photo Gallery: Delbe's Corner Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and members of the Evanston community welcomed downtown Evanston’s newest eatery to the area Wednesday evening when they held a ribbon cutting ceremony for .

The steamed sandwich shop, located at 1100 Davis St., opened its doors less than a month ago and hoped to attract new customers with the event.

Husband-and-wife owners Natasha Young-Delbrouque and Samuel Delbrouque started the businesses two years ago in Florida after they realized the local market was void of any shop that could placate their cravings for steamed sandwiches.

“I went to this one place that supposedly had great sandwiches,” said Young-Delbrouque, an Evanston native, “and I said, ‘can I get a steamed sandwich’, thinking it’s normal. So then I realized there’s not a steamed sandwich anywhere. So we decided, ‘let’s open one’. I’ve been a business person before. So we did, and we had extreme success, but it’s just so hot in Florida. So after two years, we sold it.”

Young-Delbrouque said that though most locals are unaware of the new eatery, Delbe’s Corner already has a few loyal customers, some who come multiple times a day.

Delbe’s menu has a plethora of options, combining various meats cheeses, bagels, bialies, vegetables, spreads and sauces into unique combinations. The shops signature sandwich is ‘Tasha’s Secret’, which marries turkey, bacon, provolone, avocado, mustard and cream cheese between two halves of a bialy.

The store is also planning on opening a patio session with the next few weeks.

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