<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1i3x36_0wFQwWv800" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1i3x36_0wFQwWv800" width="970" height="550" ><figcaption>Image via Breezy's Deli &amp; Market, Facebook</figcaption></figure><p>Breezy's Deli &amp; Market is the result of chef and owner Chad Durkin's vision of opening a deli, sandwich shop, and small supermarket focused on the community.</p><p>When a chef decides to start something similar to Wawa but focused on a neighborhood, the result is the highly anticipated new Breezy’s Deli &amp; Market that opened this past weekend in South Philadelphia, writes Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer.</p><p>Chef Chad Durkin spent a decade working on Washington Avenue, on the line that straddles the Point Breeze and Graduate Hospital neighborhoods. That gave him the idea to open a deli and sandwich shop offering shelf space to local brands and selling fresh produce. </p><p>The space would serve as a small supermarket available to rent for private functions. In addition to sandwiches, it would offer prepackaged, sliced meats by the pound.</p><p>“If I was going to open up a second business, it’d be close, it’d be manageable, and it’d be into this community that I feel so strongly about and vice versa,” he said.</p><p>Breezy’s Deli &amp; Market, located a block west of Durkin’s Porco’s Porchetteria and Small Oven Pastry Shop, is the fulfillment of this idea.</p><p>The name is an homage to the neighborhood, with offerings including bins of produce, racks full of pantry items and snacks, a high-tech smoothie and slushie machine, and many other things a neighborhood shop with a deli should have.</p><p>Read more about Breezy’s Deli &amp; Market and its Wawa-like qualities at The Philadelphia Inquirer.</p><p>_____</p><p>Chad Durkin, who owns Porco’s and Small Oven Pastry, is also the owner of Breezy’s. </p><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gKAj0c3GWtc?feature=oembed" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><p><b><i>Editor’s Note:</i></b> <i>This post first appeared on PHILADELPHIA Today in April 2024.</i></p></div></body>

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Breezy’s Deli & Market Opens in South Philly, and Its Like a ‘Neighborhood Wawa’

Breezy's Deli & Market is the result of chef and owner Chad Durkin's vision of opening a deli, sandwich shop, and small supermarket focused on the community. When a chef decides to start something similar to Wawa but focused on a neighborhood, the result is the highly anticipated new Breezy’s Deli & Market that opened this past weekend in South Philadelphia, writes Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer.