D'Amico & Sons' bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich is "the one"

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I’ve been covering Orlando’s food scene for more than a decade, and never once have I made a discovery that I wanted to gatekeep.

But for maybe a minute, as I sat in the serenity of D’Amico & Sons’ expansive patio, watching squirrels root around in the leaves, listening to Christmas music, sipping my coffee and luxuriating in the comfort of a breakfast sandwich that could have been transported from my old neighborhood bodega in Rego Park, Queens, or the massive Midtown deli I hit on my last trip home, I actually considered it.

Because there was no line here on this Sunday morning. Not yet, anyway.

Co-owner/operator Philip D’Amico told me later, after I’d finished my breakfast and introduced myself, that the space in front of the counter us