Sandwich Shops: Search & Destroy

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I would say: Destroy Benjis for using excessive quantities of a foul cross between salad cream and god knows what else and diminutive quantities of proper filling. Search: the place I used to go to by Victoria station when I worked near there as the men were very charming and flirtatious and gave you loads of filling (hur hur) and even let me get away with not giving them enough money on a few occasions.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We must have about nine sandwich shops in our neighbo(u)rhood. We have even more chocolateshops. We stopped at 8 and then gave up.

When you talk about sandwiches, do you mean the triangle shaped ones? When we order one (in Belgium), we get a roll.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Benjis BLT sandwiches - they got in trouble because one contained HUMAN BLOOD.

Destroy - Taste! sandwiches as sold in a lot of mainline BR stations and in my work canteen.

Search - Headington deli: best thing about where I'm living. Pret A Manger super club has filled a need on many occasions.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Pret a Manger back in the day, Top Nosh - the amazing purveyors of London's grooviest felafel, de Gustubus in Borough Market, Eyre Bros. and the much-missed Crowbar coffee shops with their proscuitto and salad on Portuguese rolls.

Destroy: all bagel shops that make non-Kosher sandwich combinations. The crank in me wants to open one of these using bad over-fluffy bagels a la M&S and call it Goyim Bagel.

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

search:ponti's 24 hour sanwich shop opposite Liverpool street station, for their hot ciabatta sarnies done on a proper italian grill, hmmm, lovely. Especially after a gig at the Spitz

destroy: my canteen's horribly wet tuna salad ones, bloomin' awful

― cabbage, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ponti's, are you JOKING? It's rank in the extreme; why go there when the Brick Lane Beigel Bake and Shalimar (Bengali kebab place) are sooooo convenient?

The best sandwich shop in central London is on Charing Cross Road; old Italian cafe (I do not name this place to keep it from going trendy, ie. downhill) which does the best panini with focaccia ever: crispy bacon, mozzarella, spinach, tomato. I have been eating this sandwich for years and I calls it Fresh Roadkill. Also for poncey sandwiches (and how apt) try Compton Cafe on Old Compton Strret. 24 hours and very well filled.

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll stick up for Ponti's too. I've only had two sarnies from there, both late night after gigs at the Spitz, but they are they closest thing I've found to a proper Italian grilled panino in London. Also, I hate to do this, but I've got to say search Pret, especially their egg mayo sandwiches. I really like their bread, their avocados are always ripe and never waxy and their brownie yoghurt pot things are very nice too.

Tom's right about Taste sandwiches. They Taste of nothing at all. Not good. And any sandwich that comes with one of those moisture- sucking bits of cloth in the bottom can be destroyed by the flames of hell too.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But they're done on ciabatta, which as any food snob worth his/her rock salt knows the Italians don't even eat. So how authentic can they be?

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, I take it food snobs you're referring to have never been to Italy.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's gonna be trouble in Stoke Newington tonight......

― cabbage, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I have been in Italy (OK, once, but it still counts) all the bread was so granite hard that it would have required teeth like a JCB to bite through one layer, let alone the two layers necessary for a sandwich. So attempting to make a sarnie from 'authentic' Italian bread seems something of a fool's errand. No doubt 4 million people will now tell me how bloody marvellous Italian bread is and how I am insane.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Madchen, are you telling me everything I've ever read about these two British entrepreneurs who came up with the recipe for ciabatta is a lie and the Italians are all scoffing it all day and laughing at my gullibility?

Next you'll be telling me they eat red pesto.

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Madchen, if you find my CxR cafe you will not touch Ponti's with a bargepole ever again. All of us do many things drunk as opposed to sober and I'm afraid eating in that shithole is one of them. Also, I can cook and nothing narks me more than paying hyooge amounts for something I know I could make better than the halfwit serving me.

Nice cafe is on same side of road as Astoria and has an Italian name in circus writing but more than that I will not say ;-).

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thing is Suzy, is it between the Spitz and where the nightbus stops outside Liverpool street station? That's the other good thing about Ponti's.

search: my pain bagnat, it's gorgeous

― cabbage, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know about the entrepreneur story, Nick, but Italians *do* eat ciabatta, in nice big sandwich-size rolls or little breakfast size ones. They also do lovely rolls called panini arabi which, curiously, go rather well with Marmite. I don't care what you lot think, Ponti's do lovely speck/brie and pom/mozz sandwiches and I like them. Sulk. But I will track down your cafe on the Charing Cross Road, Suzy.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I was on the wagon the second time I went to Ponti's so my tastebuds were reliable.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Any of your local Vietmense sandwhich shops.

― anthony, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Burger King.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well someone has to.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Subway Subway Subway...

Destroy: Bogen's stupid monopoly-board menu CAN'T..FIND..ANYTHING... and Preston & Co's excess of bagelosity (Whoever knew chips and pickle could take so long, napkins be so precious?).

― Cryosmurf, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Nice cafe is on same side of road as Astoria and has an Italian name in circus writing but more than that I will not say ;-). "

It's next to Boots if it's the one I'm thinking of. I had a delicious chicken and bacon ciabatta from there this lunchtime, and I gotta agree with Suzy - it is the best...

Destroy: EAT. "lunch sir? no problem. That'll be £4 for your soup and £4 for your sandwich, £1 for your crisps and £1 for your apple... will there be anything else?" Chumps.

― Andrew Williams, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i got two footlong subs for six dollars from subway the other night. it's taken me two days to finish them off, eating one half for every major meal. good deal!

― ethan, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love Burger King

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I've had a Subway sandwich it's been so salty I had to bin it after a couple of mouthfuls. I can't believe I actually went back and bought a second one. Never again.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Check the Brie sandwich at Au Bon Pain, amazing...

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy, you are challenging Stevie.T for the 'biggest ponce in London' crown. Can women be ponces?

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy should fight him for it. And I know who'd be favourite.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The West Street Deli in Ames, IA, where I get free sandwiches. Subway? Ugh. Once I realized how much worse they were than my deli I enacted a ban on Subway.

― Josh, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sheesh, Dastoor, what did I ever do to you? You certainly weren't moaning about me when I was handing out Fabulous Blender Drinks so watch it, buster...

Poncefight question renders the winner Not A Ponce, due to skill with fisticuffs etc. I have actually taken down huge rugby players in self- defence, you know. And as Troussé is lovely, would rather not fight him for such a dubious prize (or even a really cool prize, come to think of it).

The biggest ponce in London probably doesn't post here anyway...

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But we do have Mike, the biggest ponce in the world.

Um, anyone in NYC should go to D&S Deli on Amsterdam and around 68th. Order the Arc de Triomphe sandwich. It's wicked good. It's french bread with green apples, brie, and honey mustard. Fuck yeah.

I wish my stomach wasn't disgusting and sick with alcohol. I'd be eating that right now.

― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches from Greggs are really nice. I'm not sophisticated.

― jel, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything from Greggs is nice.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally's blood has become 99% alcohol. She is a walking gin blossom. Let us give her a taste of German Dancemagik.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The deli on my corner, Piccaninni's (yes that's the name) makes my favorite sandwich: fresh mozzerella and sundried tomatoes in olive oil on italian bread. The the oil has fennel and garlic and if you leave the sandwich sit for a few hours it soaks into the bread and just gets better. Good to take to a ball game. I guess I have to give Subway another chance.

― Lesley Higgins, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A good BLT is probably the closest thing to heaven when I am hung over. But I toast the bread, load on the mayo and use smoked bacon.

I don't really like fussy samwidges either but good salt beef, cut superfine, would do wonders just now.

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

search: Geoff's Superlative Sandwiches in Providence, RI. they have wicked stuff called Tiger Sauce, an entertainingly surly staff, and sandwiches w/names like "E-Z Wider" and "The Kevorkian" (novelty are usually dud, but... not at Geoff's).

destroy: Katz's in NYC. Unentertainingly surly staff, rumored yet elusive condiments, bouncers, numbered tickets, no fun. Grotty. The Shellac of delis. Which isn't fair to Shellac.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate burger king!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: O'Brien's.

Destroy: Pret.

Simple, really.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What happened, Mike, lunch kick in?

― Josh, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Chocolate Factory, I guess.

― JC, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is russian dressing really just ketchup and mayonnaise w/diced gherkins? I for one do not believe it.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

Hey I live in the US and don't know what Pret a manger is and have to do a design project for school on them. what are they like? help

― Kelly Teasley, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

steely yet variable

― mark s, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The worst sandwiches are supermarket ones. I hate that 'oatmeal' bread, they're always over-chilled (and thus soggy), and the taste never lives up to the description on the packet (also they usually contain about half a day's allowance of fat and calories per sandwich).

― David Inglesfield, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kelly - try http://www.pret.com

From what I can tell they are corporate feeding troughs of some kind.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

i've had enough of sandwich shops that's all we got down here it's doing my head in witney and oxford is sandwich shop hell

― kristina louise delaney, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

whats the story with o ' briens? theyre fairly ubiqiutous in ireland,and i gather they've opened up all over the place now,are they popular in other countries?

anyway,my favourite sandwich used to be their chicken and bacon tripledecker,but they did something to the chicken mayo and its not nearly as nice now...

― robin, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, here in Ormskirk we have no need for sandwich shops as we have Sayers. Possibly the finest purveyors of pastries the world has ever known. My friend in Nottingham still buys an entire tray (about 30) of their veggy sausage rolls when he comes up to stay.

― Lynskey, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Greggs is kind of pricey now I'm happy for them that they spruced themselves up a bit and they do seem happy

― saer, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:55 (eight years ago)

There's one called https://www.picklemans.com in a few Great Plains cities. Was working next door to their Omaha one and ended up loving it. The Potbelly template but dare I say tastier.

― Eazy, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:34 (eight years ago)

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