David Viana famously opened a restaurant in a Central Jersey strip mall and turned it into a Garden State dining destination .

Unfortunately, the “Top Chef” star’s efforts to open an adjoining gourmet sandwich shop were less successful.

Abramzon & David’s Delicatesse , a sandwich shop that opened this past May in the same Old Bridge complex as Viana’s exalted Heirloom Kitchen , closed its doors this past weekend.

Despite serving a small but strong menu of delicious sandwiches like a chopped Italian sub, Thai tuna melt and Chicago beef sandwich, ownership says the shop was doomed by its location.

“Unfortunately, we think that a strip mall in a sleepy town didn’t afford us the foot traffic and audience we needed to find lasting success,” Heirloom Kitchen co-owner Neilly Robinson to

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