Valente’s Deli, Bakery & Italian Market

Valente's Deli, Bakery & Italian Market is a family-run Italian specialty market, deli and bakery at 7250 Meade St in Westminster. The business describes its roots in Westminster's first supermarket, Rodeo Supermarket, and a start as a small canoli and sandwich shop in 1953. Today it stocks imported Italian pastas, sauces, tomatoes, olive oils and 00 flour, along with imported and domestic deli meats and cheeses, an in-house bakery and a meat market.

The kitchen turns out homemade sauce, lasagna, stuffed shells, take-n-bake pizzas and hand-stuffed fresh sausage. The shop's Denver-style canoli are savory baked sandwiches made with Italian sausage, ham and pepperoni, or meatballs. Specialty hoagies are made to order. Catering covers deli platters, party subs, box lunches and Italian hot food buffets, and online ordering is available.