Best Sandwich Shop

[classical_hero]

Are they really sandwiches or can they be called as burgers?

 

[warpus]

This meatballs place I discovered is amazing. Their meatball subs are incredible.

Is Mr. Sub a Canadian-only company? I like their subs more than Subway.

Quiznos used to be good when they were the only ones toasting their subs, but nowadays they seem kind of average and overpriced.

Never heard of any of the other options on the poll.. But a honourable mention needs to go to Vietnamese subs. I've only had a couple of those, but they were great. Wish more places sold them.

 

[amadeus]

I'm partial to Subway given that's the only sandwich shop I can think of around here.

Keeping in mind that 99% of sandwiches sold in Japan look like this:

 

[warpus]

I hate sandwiches that use white fluffy sponge-like bread, .. and why the hell would they cut off the best part - the crunchy & floury crust? That is a depressing looking sandwich, my friends. I'll make sure to steer clear of "sandwiches" when I'm in Japan. (I'll be there eventually)

 

[amadeus]

Shooters in Nagoya had good American style sandwiches, but it's been a couple of years since I lived out there. Haven't found a place that matched them yet.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I can hardly make myself walk into a chain restaurant. Maybe in a truck stop or a mall. Otherwise, local places are always the way to go. There used to be a place near Harvard University called Elsie's. In addition to good roast beef sandwiches, it had a video arcade game room. And I once had a great falafel in a little place in Manhattan, but I can never remember the name or exactly where it was. It had hot sauce that was just the right amount of spicy and good pickles.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Ike's. I really recommend trying it if you're in the Bay Area.

Also, if you're in the Bay Area and don't get a good burrito, you're fired.

 

[downtown]

If you live in the US and you don't have a local sandwich shop that's better than any of these chains, you need to move ASAP.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

If you live in the US and you don't have a local sandwich shop that's better than any of these chains, you need to move ASAP.

I would agree if it wouldn't call for abandoning my girlfriend. I had not really given it much thought before, but it does seem extremely strange that there really isn't a local sandwich shop in this part of town. We have a wide variety of pizza places, both local and every chain I can think of, plus all the fast food chains. We have two local chain not-quite-fast-food-almost-a-restaurant places for better burgers and such. We don't have the full spectrum of chain diner type places trying to run our local diner out, but we have plenty. And we have a couple of nice places to eat. One would think that there would be some sort of local shop targeting Subway's stranglehold on sandwiches, but there isn't.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Potbelly's the only place I've ever worked that I didn't get tired of the food after a couple years. For chains, it's the best.

However, local delis are always better than chains.

 

[EgonSpengler]

We have a wide variety of pizza places

Around here, pizza places are also some of the best sandwich (sub) shops, but I don't know if that's a regional thing or not.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Around here, pizza places are also some of the best sandwich (sub) shops, but I don't know if that's a regional thing or not.

We have a small local chain that is pizza and sandwiches, but they don't have a store really close to me unfortunately. I guess some of the big chain places are too, but I don't go to those.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Potbelly's the only place I've ever worked that I didn't get tired of the food after a couple years. For chains, it's the best.

However, local delis are always better than chains.

I wouldn't say always, I've definitely been to a few that were significantly worse than Jersey Mike's. Never found one worse than Subway though.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I wish Jimmy John's would bring back bean sprouts already.

I did notice they brought them back for a limited time but quickly stopped offering them again.

 

[civvver]

Don't they keep dropping the bean sprouts cus of ecoli outbreaks all the time? Then I feel like they realize most people don't care or it saves them a lot of hassle and never bring them back. Kinda like how taco bell dropped green onions. But yes I do miss them as well. My favorite used to be the beach club minus cucumbers but it's just not the same without the sprouts.

Here's a pic of my favorite place and favorite sandiwch although I'm pretty sure this is the large size which I never get, it's just a ridiculous amount of meat. The normal size is about half that thick, still have to open pretty wide!

I did totally forget about faleffel and shwarma's though. My area luckily has a ton of middle eastern restaurants around that make em good. Also some of the best sandwiches I've had were when I visited Germany and got doner kebabs. It's similar to a shwarma but a little different flavor and usually is crusty bread cut open like a pita but it's not pita, I don't know what it is. Wrapped ones that are in a flatter more pita like bread are called durums I guess. Spelling may be off on both of those.

It's really hard to beat great bbq sandwiches too whether it's pulled pork or brisket or smoked sausage, but sadly there's a real lack of good bbq joints close to me. Almost everything for that is a chain like crappy famous dave's. The best I get are usually off food carts once a year at some festivals.

Around here, pizza places are also some of the best sandwich (sub) shops, but I don't know if that's a regional thing or not.

Same here, Jet's pizza is a pretty big chain but I think it might be Michigan only, but they make some great subs. They use pizza dough for bread and it's awesome. Jet's boat:

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Don't they keep dropping the bean sprouts cus of ecoli outbreaks all the time? Then I feel like they realize most people don't care or it saves them a lot of hassle and never bring them back. Kinda like how taco bell dropped green onions. But yes I do miss them as well. My favorite used to be the beach club minus cucumbers but it's just not the same without the sprouts.

Yup, that's why.

Or at least that's why they first stopped carrying them. Not sure why they brought them back only to rapidly remove them again. There may have been a second outbreak I didn't hear about.

But I know the first time was all about e-coli. You can't even get bean sprouts in a lot of grocery stores anymore.

 

[warpus]

Schwartz's Deli in Montreal probably has the best smoked meat sandwiches in the world:

Just don't put yellow "mustard" on it and it'll be awesome.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

As awesome as that looks Warpus, I think if you need a spoon to eat it it stops qualifying as a sandwich .

 

[warpus]

I have that exact stance on pasta - if you serve it with a spoon in the bowl then you don't know what you're doing and it couldn't possibly be pasta.

But.. yeah. They put a ton of smoked meat in their sandwiches, and not much else. It's amazing.

 

[madviking]

i'm sure DerrickCB will agree with me here, Littlejohn's in charlottesville is dope.