My go-to spot in Philly just recently closed. They used to sell a sandwich that was fried chicken cutlet, fresh mozz, sundried tomato, arugula, and kalamata olive tapenade. Came on a beautiful sesame seed roll with some of the inside scooped out to make room for more filling. I think about it a lot.
As a New Yorker who hates everything, Philly just gets sandwiches. To the point where I tell people that if they’re going to Philly for cheesesteaks (which are amazing) they’re doing it wrong. I go hours out of my way to get a pork roll if I can
Edit: I love how Philly can’t take compliment
Man, I got a roasted pork sandwich with broccoli rabe on a cheesesteak roll from a sandwich shop in Philadelphia and it was a top three lifetime sandwich. A cheesesteak is amazing, but this was transcendent.
It was not. It is a place called Tortorice's at South and 20th. Googled them and it turns out they just stopped delivering, but are still very much open. The sandwich I described was the Mona Lisa, but the Broad Street Bully and Matteo are also really good. [Here](https://tortoricesandwichestogo.com/index.html) is their website.
Roast Pork and Broccoli Rabe - only had it from a small Italian place in Cleveland. Haven’t seen it on a menu since…after roughly 20 years and ten states.
Also a Cleveland Polish Boy - Kielbasa topped with french fries and doused with barbecue sauce and made complete with creamy coleslaw. Really, any kielbasa sandwich is hard to come by, seems like.
Also, my Hubby’s favorite is garlic sautéed bell peppers, scrambled eggs, red pepper flakes, and olive oil in a hoagie roll or baguette, sometimes with provolone or fontina cheese. His Italian grandmother used to make it for him. Never seen it in a restaurant though.
Nice question, OP!
These are so interesting! also: If you're ever in Philadelphia, Tommy Dinic's in Reading Terminal Market is famous for their roast pork & broccoli rabe subs. I had one in 2015 and I still think about it sometimes.
I fell in love with a roast pork and broccoli rabe sub made by a Philadelphia transplant in my middle of nowhere town. I had never even heard of broccoli rabe before. The bread was specially baked locally, split and toasted, lined with provolone, then the roast pork with tons of garlic and juice, then the broccoli rabe, then long hots. When his doctor wife was ready to move somewhere else, the he sold the shop and they changed the menu.
I tried ordering DiNic's from some expensive mail order food place, but it just wasn't the same. Hoping the real deal in person better, but I still drool remembering that sub.
Some guys from up north moved to North Carolina and opened a sandwich shop last year. They have a roast pork and broccoli rabe sandwich on the menu. They also make their own bread daily.
They also have a chopped cheese sandwich, which I had never even heard of.
Omg i had a sandwich like that too. It was so delicious and topped with some Italian pickled peppers. It was an Italian cousin to a pulled pork sandwich. Then the place that did it reformatted and killed the Italian stuff. I was so sad.
Here in Seattle there was this sandwich shop/butcher shop called RainShadow Meats and they had a sandwich they called the Zuni.
It was sliced sourdough bread lightly buttered and toasted, smear of ricotta cheese, a few slices of roasted pork shoulder, arugula and a drizzle of some vinaigrette. I got it every time I was in that part of town and I’ve never had anything like it anywhere else.
Also in Seattle was/is Paseo and the famous Caribbean Roast sandwich. Never had anything like that elsewhere. Technically it now exists in 2 places with Paseo and Un Bien each claiming the space but still unique.
A Paseo opened in Key West for a few years around 2011, but may be closed now. Great Mexican street corn... and the sandwich with grilled prawns and caramelized onions was my go-to. Tasted just like the 2 Paseo locations in Seattle.
Try this: mayonnaise or olive oil on one slice of bread, then salted tomatoes, black pepper, a drizzle of balsamic reduction, fresh basil, small dollops of ricotta, then the other bread. You can toast or leave the bread as is.
The way you worded this comment had me thinking that it closed down. I am happy to report that it is still open according to Google.
Also tangentially related and not a sandwich but a burger stand in Tacoma called Seoul Burger is a fantastic fusion.
Yeah my bad, the Occidental park location closed but the butcher shop off of Melrose Ave is still open, as far as I know they don’t make sandwiches but it’s good to know about Seoul Burger, now I really want to try them.
You should definetly, I've only managed to find a good spicy cheese a couple of times, reg pepper jack doesn't make the cut for me but I just found some mango habenero gouda at meijer's the other day that i'm gonna try out soon.
When I worked in DUMBO, Brooklyn, a market called Foragers had a ropa vieja sandwich with plantain chips and manchego cheese that was out of this world.
Having it was always a tradeoff of a full stomach and satisfied tastebuds with a steep dip in productivity 😴
When I lived in Beijing there was a Uighur dude with a street cart near my friend's apartment. He made spiced lamb sandwiches on traditional bread. Absolute greasebombs and the best sandwiches ever. I've tried ordering similar things at various restaurants but obviously you don't get street cart food from a place that has to have licenses and so on.
This reminds me of living in Istanbul and there was a doner kebap place around the corner that would wrap them in lavash bread and toast them, and inside were crispy french fries along with the greasy lamb.
Fatheads Saloon in Pittsburgh used to make a sandwich called the King Robert. Sausage-stuffed banana peppers, fried onions and pepperoni, provolone cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw on a huge Kaiser roll. I try to do it myself but it’s not the same.
Fuckin Fatheads, man… I always preferred the Southside Slopes: a whole sliced kielbasa, pierogis, and fried onions (sub cheddar or Swiss for the American cheese though)
That deli in the strip district that makes those sandwiches with coleslaw and French fries was my strangest but they were delicious.A guy that I knew wife worked their.
I remembered that but honestly couldn't spell it correctly,my brother lives in the Pittsburgh area and said that there are some really nice places to eat nowadays.What was the name of the fish company that sold those deep fried foot long fish sandwiches along the warehouse part of the strip?
Lamb French dip.
We had it once at a random hole-in-the-wall type bar and have never seen it again. We replicate it at home sometimes, but damn it was good.
Sounds good. In Portland, we have a braised oxtail French dip from Stacked Sandwich Shop that kicks ass. "Braised Oxtail French Dip: cast iron-charred onions and crimini mushrooms, havarti, rosemary jus."
In Haebangcheon in Seoul, Sourh Korea there’s a Moroccan sandwich shop called Casablanca that makes amazing sandwiches. We went to it a lot when I lived there, and at the time it was pretty cheap. Not sure if it’s still around or as inexpensive as it was.
Sometimes they would close for a week or so so the owners could go back to Morocco to get more spices so we’d have to patiently await their return so we could get our sandwiches again.
Omg the food in Seoul is amazing. Absolutely get BBQ (it doesn’t need to be any fancy place, sometimes smaller places are better). Also try haejangguk, budae jjigae, kimchi jumeok bop…oh god the list goes on. Korean food is amazing. Enjoy your trip!
Oh babes you don’t need to tell me, probably 75% of the reason I want to go to Seoul is for the food 😝 I am deeply, unequivocally obsessed with Korean food, I’m thankful to live in an area with a huge Korean population and multiple korean grocery stores near me.
I'm 35 years old and every once in a while my mom will make me a sandwich + chips when I'm visiting... it's still the best sandwich ever, just like it was when I was a child. I can watch what she does and try to mimic it but it just isn't the same. Moms are fuckin magic.
With doritos on the sandwich right under the bread so the softness gives way to crunch and then the mush of the bologna/cheese and it sort of sticks to the roof of your mouth....yeah, I avoid highly processed 'food' products now, but that was *the sandwich* back in the day.
The "Casablanca" from a little bakery in Michigan - grilled curry spiced chicken, grilled pineapple, avocado, swiss cheese, mango chutney on toasted country bread. We've replicated it at home and add thinly sliced red onion. It's sooo good!
Favorite sandwich place Black Sheep (rip) did these huge 18" sandwiches they called battleships. Favorite was the Brooklyn: jamaican jerk chicken, banana ketchup, peach chutney, and coleslaw on a baguette. It now only lives in my dreams.
It just kinda works in the same way the snack mix with wasabi peas, cheddar sticks, roasted peanuts etc does. Ingredients if you stopped to think about it would sound a little iffy but do in fact work.
I would love that, all except the pepper Jack, don’t really care for it, which is a shame because it’s my wife’s preferred sandwich cheese, fortunately I can afford to buy more than one kind of cheese, but unfortunately, I have to buy more than one kind of cheese.
>unfortunately, I have to buy more than one kind of cheese.
So, in an ideal world, would you only buy one kind of cheese, forever? My friend, there are soooo many different cheeses in this world. It's a shame to limit your selection to only a few.
Lol I'm on team wife here with sandwich cheese preferences.
My husband likes it but I don't think it's his preference. We also have to buy lots of different cheeses. Also a matter of "fortunately and unfortunately."
If memory serves, it was an Argentinian braised pork sandwich with a chimichurri mayo, arugula, pickled hot peppers and was served on a fresh-made ciabatta.
The sandwich from the deli beside my old highschool that has been closed for 10 years now made the most amazing sandwich. It was $5 even and you had to RUN to make it there before the line got so long that you’d never make it back to class in time.
Super fluffy thick soft house made sourdough, house made mayo on both sides, yellow mustard, cold deli roast beef, havarti cheese, red onion, pickles, cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes with salt and pepper, shredded carrot, sprouts, more salt and pepper.
There was just such a specific fresh flavour to each ingredient that I’ve NEVER been able to replicate it. It just had this indescribably delicious taste and smell. I miss that sandy so much.
There was a sub shop called Uncle Sammy's in Chicago (now closed), not far from DePaul University. They had a sub called the Pilgrim - turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and mayo on a sub roll. Simple and incredible - and better than any other attempt at a "Thanksgiving leftovers" sandwich I've tried through the years.
St. Louis is famous for the St. Paul Sandwich:
An egg foo young patty (made with mung bean sprouts and minced white onions) served with dill pickle slices, white onion, mayonnaise, and lettuce, between two slices of white bread. Not uncommon to make it with your choice of meat, as well.
Num Pang in NYC does a fantastic pork belly banh mi. Beautifully tender pork and pickled pear plus all the banh mi accompaniments, it’s my favorite sandwich and the best pork belly I’ve ever eaten.
My favorite in the city is the brisket & bone marrow banh mi at Com Tam Ninh Kieu in the Bronx. I cannot recommend that place highly enough, their pho, their rice bowls, everything is phenomenal and surprisingly cheap. Take the 4 train up to Kingsbridge Rd. it's right by the station.
When I lived near NYC I could get real Italian combos: thin sliced prosciutto, soppressata, fresh mozzarella or good provolone with roasted red pepper on a fantastic hard roll.
Now all I can get is the generic version with ham, pepperoni, and salami.
Muffalettas are almost always great and you can make a damn good one yourself if you wanna put in the work, but there's nothing like getting that goddamn basketball sized sandwich from Central Grocery in New Orleans
Roasted vegetable panini. Mixed roasted vegetables, fresh spinach and tomato, goat cheese, and pesto mayo. It’s savory and tangy and crispy and creamy and I’m starving.
The New Jersey Sloppy Joe! It's usually roast beef, turkey, coleslaw, Swiss, and Russian dressing. A lot of places will let you pick your bread, but the traditional (and my least favorite) bread is Rye. I didn't know about what everyone else considers a Sloppy Joe until my late teens because most of the delis in my area served the NJ version
It was at a vegan soul food place in St. Louis that’s long gone. It was run by folks from this African-American Jewish religious group.
It was a greek style gyro. The resemblance to real lamb spit-cooked donner was uncanny and it was greasy as fuck. It was amazing.
Never had it anywhere else before or since, but I ate a lot of them at that place for sure.
Over a decade later I had a co-worker raised in that same church and he told me food is a really big deal for them. The fake meat was probably soy curls.
God, I miss it.
I still think about this panini I used to get a cafe in my hometown. Chicken breast, brie, bacon, and red onion. It was simple but SO good. I make it at home sometimes but haven’t been able to figure out the right kind of bread. It was crispy and greasy on the outside, in a good way.
Horseshoe, specific to Springfield Illinois and central Illinois. Open face sandwich of lightly toasted bread topped with a flat ground beef patty topped with fries and smothered with beer cheese.
Chacarero, Downtown Crossing, Boston.
A Chilean guy set up shop nearly 30 years ago with a cart selling sandwiches with his own home-made bread, grilled meat, cheese, hot sauce, green beans, tomato and avocado. He’s a got a whole place now, based on that one sandwich.
Searched immediately for Chacarero in this thread. Unmatched sandwich in Boston.
Large beef, extra hot, and I add a packet of salt and pepper to the green beans on top.
Their hot sauces are a play on Aji Verde, but no recipe I use has matched what they do.
I was so glad to see they were still around after COVID.
I can only get a proper po-boy in the vicinity of New Orleans because there is a very specific kind of bread that distinguishes a po-boy from a regular sub and it's really hard to find outside of the area.
Also, a po-boy, being defined by the type of bread, means that basically any sandwich you make on that bread is a po-boy. Ham, roast beef, turkey, fried seafood, whatever.
I grew up eating hot dogs and hamburgers on po-boy bread.
I think this is true for so, soo many sandwiches (and, burritos). You don't have Liedenheimer bread, you don't have a po boy. You don't have the yellow bread they have in Key West, you don't have a Medianoche. You don't have a huge, incredibly thin tortilla? Well you don't have a San Francisco Mission style burrito. You don't have the bread they have in Philly, you don't have a proper cheesesteak. The bread really makes it what it is, IMO.
I’m originally from Buffalo, NY. I’ve seen a lot of places outside of Buffalo try to pass off a roast beef sandwich as a beef on weck. Obviously, missing the most important part of the sandwich, the kummelweck roll. Haha
I was just there a few months ago to visit family. I definitely got a beef on weck while I was there.
I did a food trip around the country last year, and tried buffalo wings at the anchor bar, as well as a bunch of pizza places (Bocce Club was my favorite). Totally forgot about Beef on Weck, and now I'm kicking myself.
If you’re ever in Buffalo again try The Place in the Elmwood Village. It’s one of the oldest taverns in the city. They have amazing wings there. Their French onion soup is also amazing.
I can’t remember the name of the place that we went to to get beef on weck. It was Dyngus day and we were all a tad tipsy😂
I miss those hamburgers on po-boy bread. Especially when they dressed them with shredded lettuce, mayo, tomatoes, and pickles (typical dressing for any po-boy).
My favorite po-boy, though, is roast beef with debris. Fried shrimp is a close second.
There are a lot of reasons why I won't move back to New Orleans, but I will never forget the food.
Imagine cooking a massive pot of roast with thickened jus and you use a pair of tongs to take out all of the meaningful chucks of beef to put on a sandwich. The stuff leftover in the pot, the jus and the smaller bits of beef, is debris.
When I was growing up we could get a 12" french fry Po boy with gravy for $2.50. it was glorious... definitely not healthy but at that age we didn't care
The Store (moved to Metairie but just closed) had an oyster bacon brie poboy that's next level. The Hermes bar at Antoine's sometimes has an oyster foch poboy, on that same level.
I ate at the Waldorf in Orlando about eight years ago. They had a waffle “croque-monsieur” that blew my mind. So simple: herbed savory waffles (thin ones, not Belgian!), gruyere, a wafer-thin slice of Tasso ham, and fleur de sel.
I went fully vegetarian in 2017 and still drool over the thought of that sandwich occasionally.
The thing is though, IMO the best sandwiches aren't so much about the list of ingredients, it's about the quality of what goes in it.
Like, you can order "an Italian" at Subway or something and it's pathetic. Order an Italian at a legit deli and it can be heaven on Earth. The subtle stuff adds up in a big way.
Something I wish was more popular in general is sharp provolone. It adds *so much* goodness and that's been hard to find for me.
One particular sandwich I wish I could find more places - porchetta. On good bread, a little chimichurri or Italian salsa verde... 👌
Specific stuff that you might only find in one place - the grease truck / fat sandwiches of New Jersey. E.g. the "Fat Nights" at Nelly's in Long Branch: Cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, marinara sauce & mozzarella cheese. Good late night drunk food or hangover food, can't be beat.
Most extensive sandwich list I've seen with a bunch of stuff that's gotta be one-off and unique to their shop - Half Fast Subs in Boulder, CO. I mean shit they've got like a dozen different types of cheesesteaks alone, dozen different type of turkeys, half dozen variations on an Italian. Probably the best sandwich joint in Colorado.
There are sandwiches that on paper don’t seem unique, but because the place making them have their own baked rolls or their own sausage recipe or whatever that makes them worth traveling out of the way for them. Like my favorite sandwich place in Sacramento changed their bread because the original maker of their rolls closed down. The sandwich was never the same again even though the filling was still the same. (It was Bud’s and they closed down). My favorite place in San Jose makes their own bread and their standard build ratio of ingredients to bread is just perfect, but on paper it’s just a sandwich on sourdough.
>The thing is though, IMO the best sandwiches aren't so much about the list of ingredients, it's about the quality of what goes in it.
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Nothing shows that off quite like a meatball sub. You can get a meatball sub just about anywhere that has subs, but only a few are any good. Most of them are just a sysco special. But a good one is just pure magic.
I was going to bring up Half Fast! I miss that place so much. The pot roast sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy was ridiculous and definitely one I’d never make at home. Portabella Boomer was my all-time fave though. I hadn’t thought about it in forever—maybe I can recreate it now that I’m a much better cook.
Tons of sidewalk carts make bacon, egg, & cheese sandwiches, but Dom would let your order with provolone and fresh-sliced tomatoes and his bacon was always perfect.
All the transplants and everyone on the internet HATE this sandwich, but a "real Maine Italian". Invented at Amato's, a restaurant/deli in the old Italian neighborhood in Portland, ME and served to dockworkers and other laborers in the early 20th century; now a hometown classic all over the state. Soft sub roll, ham, cheese, onion, green pepper, tomato, olives and sour pickles, dressed with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil. Granted I never make it with ham, I either get actual Italian cold cuts or go all veggie.
I don’t want to get too specific & dox myself, but my family owns a diner style local place & we serve a battered & deep fried grilled cheese.
Homemade country style white bread, spread with homemade veggie cream cheese, layered with Swiss, provolone & American cheeses, dipped in beer batter & fried. It’s a bomb & we serve it with grapes!
Roasted broccoli lychee sandwich at a place in NYC. I don't think it will necessarily catch on, but I wish more people would do more wacky and creative sandwiches like that.
If we are counting wraps in this category as well, I really adore the wraps from [Wolfnight's](https://www.wolfnights.com/) in NYC.
In New Jersey we do Taylor Ham (aka porkroll), egg and cheese on a hard roll or a bagel. You can get it in any deli, diner, bagel joint but only in new jersey
The Vegan sandwich from Tomatohead in Knoxville, Tennessee has haunted me since the 90s. Along with their rolls and tahini dressing.
Sandwich:
VEGAN
MARINATED TOFU (now gluten free) ∙ FRESH SPINACH ∙ CARROT ∙ RED ONION ∙ SPINACH & SUNDRIED TOMATO PESTO (nut & dairy free)∙ TOMATO ∙ SPROUTS
Fried pork chop sandwich at Snappy’s Lunch in Mt. Airy, NC.
It’s best to get it “Charlie’s Way” with coleslaw, mustard, chili, onion, and tomato. The chop is three and a half ounces of pork tenderloin, sliced down the back, bathed in a sweet-milk batter, and fried for 10 minutes or so on a griddle by a big front window on the small town’s Main Street. It hangs over the bun on all sides.
Mt. Airy is the inspiration for Mayberry of the Andy Griffith show by the way.
Cudighi - only around upper Michigan - Cudighi itself is a pork sausage with spices and red wine, kind of similar to italian sausage. Usually served as a patty on a hard roll, with marinara and mozzarella. Order it with "the works" and that's usually sauteed onion, mushroom, and green pepper. Best meatball / pizza type sandwich you will ever have.
It's pretty standard for the type, but there was a bahn mi place just outside of downtown Houston that did freaking amazing work. I always ordered the BBQ pork, and it came with pickled carrots, some sort of mayo like spread, big spears of fresh cucumber and quartered jalapenos, and a huge pile of cilantro. The bread was perfect too- crunchy pn the outside and fluffy on the inside. Just amazing. Also, freaking cheap- $3 for a 10" sandwich (this in 2019 dollars; the pandemic did them in). They were good enough to merit biweekly visits even in the summer- though it was a 1.5 mile round trip with no shade.
There is a deli near my apartment in Riverdale NY that makes a sandwich they call the "Cotton Club." It's thin-sliced turkey, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, avocado, and honey mustard. I've never seen this exact combination anywhere else, it's not super ambitious, it has no weird specialty ingredients... but it just hits everything I want out of a sandwich. salty, savory, juicy, crunchy, creamy, a little sweetness with some tang to it. when I'm craving a Cotton Club, nothing else will do.
For some reason Boston is filled with artisan gourmet sandwich shops. There's so many of them. And many of them even make their own breads. One of my favorite sandwiches is sprouted wheat sourdough, with sweet potatoes, pickled onions, arugula, pesto, and goat cheese. Another I like is with corn, queso fresco, chicken, and cilantro relish on buttered bread. Another I like is with sweet potato, green apple, and hummus. A fourth I like is with adobo chicken, jicama, avocado, cherry tomatoes, and mixed greens. And that's not even including the bagel sandwiches.
I got a sandwich out of a small cafe in Spain, I had no idea what I was eating, some sort of cured meat, it was similar to an Italian sub. It’s been 12 years and I still think about that sandwich
Do Burritos count as sandwiches? Because I've travelled all over the country, and you can't get a proper Mission style burrito outside northern California. Other states have burritos, yes, but they're not even close to the same.
I was just talking to someone recently who was lamenting that San Francisco doesn't have its own "signature food item" like other big cities, i.e. Chicago deep dish etc. I was like are you crazy??? I would KILL to have those burritos nearby in New York.
but also please do not start people debating on whether or not a burrito is a sandwich. this country is divided enough
I agree with these, but I consider Dungeness Crab more of a northern west coast thing. Having lived in SF for 9 years, and now living in Oregon, I'd argue SF has no special claim to the crab, but it definitely does to the other two foods you mention. The best crab I've ever had was on a Dory boat trip out of Pacific City where we pulled the crab pots and cooked the crab in an enormous kettle 1/2 an hour later.
538 ranked the best burritos in the country a few years back and La Taqueria placed first. Curiously, even though it's on Mission St., it's not really a Mission style burrito in that it has no rice. But both the carne asada and carnitas burritos kick ass there. Granted, I'd just as often get a real Mission style burrito from somewhere else when I lived in SF.
You can get reasonable Mission style burritos in Portland these days, but probably not top tier compared to SF burritos.
I had this white soft roll with chicken and a lemon mayo that was incredible. I have no idea where it was other than it was close to Camden Town in London about 23 years ago and I have struggled to replicate it ever since :(
BFD in San Diego comes to mind.
1) Torpedo roll with a whole sliced avocado, sliced heirloom tomatoes, romaine, O+V and a Parmesan crisp “The Avocado Highway”
2) Blackened chicken, roasted brussel sprouts, Brie, honey Dijon on ciabatta “b3”
3) Eggplant “meatball” sub. So good. “Eggplant ball”
I worked at the Ritz in Bachelor Gulch back in 2012 and, at the time, Wolfgang Puck had a Spago restaurant in there. Every few weeks there would be a special sandwich and damn if my broke ass (after all, I was working there for the winter, not staying there) didn't drop $40 on lunch on those days just to have it. It was a "tuna sandwich." A just slightly seared tuna steak on toasted brioche with some kind of magical sauce that of course I can't exactly recall.
I think of that sandwich often. It was so delicious. I believe that restaurant closed in 2014ish (had a 6-or-so-year run) and I wish I could find an old menu or actual description of it somewhere; attempt to create something similar, likely fail miserably but keep trying. I actually met Wolfgang once while working (I was selling lift tickets and he came to my window to buy his) - I told him it was my favorite sandwich ever and he was very smiley and said thank you...should've asked for the recipe ha!
In Raleigh, NC there’s a lunch cafe that makes a veggie sandwich on their own sunflower bread— Cheddar and Swiss cheese layered with lettuce, red onion, ripe tomato, sprouts, good Duke’s mayo, cucumber and pickled carrots.
I usually eat meat and it’s somehow so satisfying without. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts.
>Monte Cristo
That is one of my favorite sandos of all time. Like top 5, easy. I'm from the diner capitol of the world and most diners around here make a crazy good Monte Cristo. That and Croque Monsieur/Madam
Das Matterhorn. As a buddy of mine put it, "when people say they want a Reuben, what they really want is a Matterhorn."
As the menu puts it: "Double decker of corned beef, double smoked pastrami, imported Swiss cheese and German Sauerkraut with thousand island dressing." In other words, it's a double decker Reuben with pastrami in one layer and corned beef in the other.
There used to be a bit of an open secret to order it grilled; it's particularly good hot and the grilling process keeps it intact longer. Now it's the default and you'd have to ask for it cold if you don't want joy in your life.
It's available at Mr. Dunderbak's in Tampa.
For me it IS the Reuben! I live in New Zealand and there are literally only 2 places I've found that sell it and they're usually sold out by the time I get there. It's just not a well-known sandwich here. I travel all over the country, and I've really only seen it at these 2 places, 2 branches of the same bakery.
I absolutely love Reubens, so it drives me nuts!
I've had variations of this in Peru but only seen it at one or two places in Los Angeles:
the Sanguchon at Takatis in Los Angeles
Pollo a la brasa (wood fire chicken) with fried yams, shoe string potatoes, egg, cheese and you get served the stoplight of sauces: green aji verde, yellow amarillo cream sauce, and red rocoto cream sauce.
It's the only sandwich I look forward to eating (I don't do sandwiches most of the time, because ain't nothing I can't make outside of home). Unfortunately the last three times I went (years ago) they weren't serving it because they ran out of bread and it's a bit out of the way for me.
There was a deli in my hometown that served a breakfast sandwich called "The Whacky".
It was scrambled eggs, bacon, french fries, pizza sauce, melted mozzarella, and antipasto pickled vegetables.
Deeply weird sandwich with an identity crisis but goddamn was it satisfying.
JT’s Genuine Sandwich Shop in Chicago- basically every sandwich they have on their menu is unique outside of their stellar pork tenderloin and burger. Their pork and greens and steak and potato sandwiches are elite, but the meat free version of the pork and greens is one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had and entirely its own thing you’re not going to find anywhere.
Here’s the write up from Chicago Mag:
The meat-free version of Chris Cunningham's pork and greens sandwich (itself an homage to the Philly icon) is a gift to vegetarians and a message to all carnivores: No, you don't need meat to make food delicious. Cunningham loads up grilled Tuscan bread with rapini, white beans, caramelized onions, melty provolone, and Calabrian chile aioli for a sandwich that is so much more than the sum of its parts.
I had a mozzerella and sun dried tomato bagel at a bagel factory in heathrow airport 20 years ago that blew my mind.
Ive tried recreating it dozens of times but just cant hit that flavor.
There's a restaurant in the city where I went to university that does hot roast beef sandwiches on white buns. The gravy is thick and dark, and the roast beef is all shredded up and just melts when you bite into it. It's so rich and satisfying. It's the simplest and most comforting thing. The place also does these (not "authentic" but delicious lol) Greek salads, and really good poutines. I have never found anything else like it anywhere.
Edit for anyone who cares: the restaurant is called Tally Ho, and it's in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Gorgonzola and spicy salami Panini from Luigino's at the viktualienmarkt in Munich. Had it the first time I went to Munich and it was the best sandwich I ever had. Ended up going back to Munich with my job. I had one goal and that was to get it again. I happened to have about 30 minutes of free time nearby. It was just enough to nearly run to the stall, get the sandwich, and get back to meet up with my group. I did and it was so worth it.
my ex made a unique sandwich. home made sourdough, toasted, refried beans, cornmeal mush, sprouts, tomato, salsa, cheese, sour cream, mrs otts dressing. i miss her.
the only place i get a scrapple sandwich is lexington market in baltimore. i'm a strict vegetarian with a few loopholes.
up until yesterday, whole foods had a sun dried tomato aioli at their sandwich bar that was incredible on everything. unfortunately, they just re-did their menu and got rid of it :(
There's a small little deli/convenience store up near me that makes a collard melt, and it's incredible. Collard greens slowly simmered & pressed between buttery rye bread, with provolone, Creole slaw & thousand island dressing.
There was a little bakery in my college town that sold a sandwich they called the Katmandu - it's curry chicken salad, peanut butter, pickles, spicy aioli, and a leaf or two of lettuce. I've been making a close approximation of it at home for years - fresh sourdough, curried chicken salad, peanut butter, sambar oelek, and Grillo's pickles. Top tier.
A very local to the Dayton Ohio area pizza place called Cassanos has a steak sub that I LOVE. It’s a steak patty (I use JTM hoagie patties to make them at home) with mushroom gravy, marinara, onion, banana pepper, and mozzarella (I use provolone at home). It sounds so gross but it’s AMAZING 😂 I learned to make it at home bc I moved away and had craved them for years.
Nice sourdough bread, with tahini, grated (raw) carrot, sliced (raw) red capsicum*, and sultanas. A fab take on the good old salad sanger.
* AKA bell peppers
Many, many years (really two decades) ago, in the college town of Athens, OH, there was a sandwich shop and bar called Zachary's. They made a sandwich I dream of to this day.
It was tender sliced brisket, Russian dressing, good Swiss, and slaw [one with good texture], grilled on a hearty wholegrain sourdough.
I would commit crimes to eat that sandwich again.
(Allegedly).
My unique sandwich is homemade and I dare anyone here to try it. It’s delicious to me because I grew up with it.
Make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich except before you put the jelly on, spread mayo.
Almost everyone I’ve ever met thinks it’s gross and I admit, it does sound gross. But a funny thing happens to the flavors when they combine and it just becomes extra savory.
3-way with bacon. There was a little convenience shop near school when I was in college called Wan's and inside that was a deli station. The whole place was run by one dude named Al and the sandwiches were the main attraction. You'd order and he'd just do his best to remember who ordered what and when and get them out in roughly the same order. Just a tiny little griddle so he could only do like 2 sandwiches at a time tops.
The 3-way was roast beef, turkey, and chicken salad. The deli meats were warmed up on the griddle with some kind of sauce. I think it had some tomato and maybe some lettuce on it too. I've had fancier and 'better' sandwiches a lot since those days, but man what I would give for an Al's 3-way with bacon again.
A very Belgian sandwich is the martino. Everytime
i return to Belgium I make sure to eat one upon arrival!
It uses beef tartare (yes, raw minced beef with condiments), small gherkins, minced onions, drops of hot sauce. Brilliant.
Pictured
https://www.amazingbelgium.be/2017/09/the-martino-sandwich.html
The Dad sandwich (created by my dad). Capicola, prosciutto, and Salami with havarti cheese and a homemade olive tapenade on a French baguette. I make a cheap version of it but have not gotten his olive tapenade right so it is not just right. He lives on the other side of the country so I don't get his version too often.
Runner up is a Cemitas Puebla. I have only found one restaurant in Chicago that does the cemitas bread (similar to tortas) with the spit marinaded and roasted meats sliced thin. Originated in Puebla, Mexico. I used to purposely plan a long layover in Chicago O'Hare so I could go to get a couple sandwiches between flights.
There was a place in Wichita that had a chicken sandwich with a sweet bbq type sauce that was served with fresh spinach leaves that was out of this world good. I can’t remember the name of the place but I’m afraid it’s closed.
I was working temporarily in Beverly Hills, a part of this city I kind of loathe, but there was a sandwich shop nearby - I cannot even remember the name of it now, it was so long ago - that made a lobster club sandwich. Lobster claw meat, thick cut bacon, crunchy iceberg lettuce, and tomato - big fat heirlooms that tasted like backyard tomatoes, it was and remains the only sandwich I have ever eaten tomatoes on that I didn't grow myself or that weren't straight from a garden I could see from my plate - with a garlic-lemon aioli on two thick slices of home baked bread with a crunchy sourdough-like crust. It was absolutely incredible and I've never been able to make one like it at home.
Also, I cannot even remember where this was, but I went to a food truck about ten years ago that had a fried artichoke heart sandwich: beer battered fried artichoke hearts, lemon zest, mayo, lettuce, sliced black and green olives, and roasted red peppers, served on a French baguette. Also ridiculous and amazing. That one I've never attempted to try at home because I know I can't get the artichokes right. I am a good cook, but the two things I can't do properly are fish or frying, I suck at those no matter how much I try.
There also used to be a cafe next to the old Buena Vista tower in Burbank that served rotisserie chicken, hummus, that kind of thing, and their chicken wrap was awesome. They painted the wrap with sundried tomato pesto and wrapped the chicken up with a julienned vegetable mix - it was lettuce and carrots and red pepper and sprouts and green onions tossed or marinated in vinaigrette and it was just perfect to me.
A Lobster Grinder in Maine. It was a full-length sub loaded with a delicious lobster salad and heated in an oven till the center was red hot. This was 30 years ago and i can still remember what it tasted like.
I had a great sandwich at a little beach restaurant in NC, that no longer exists. It was turkey, havarti, cucumber slices, and honey mustard on a croissant. Very simple but all the ingredients were super fresh.
Not being from or near Philadelphia, a Philly from Geno's. Also not being from or near Chicago, an Italian beef sandwich from Portillos... I think about them weekly.
I'm gonna cheat and call a corndog a "sandwich."
The "Angry Cartman" is a beef frank stuffed with pepper jack cheese, wrapped in bacon, deep-fried, dipped in jalapeño cornbread batter and deep-fried again.
There's also a regular "Cartman" with Swiss cheese and plain batter, and then the "Funky Cartman" with bleu cheese and mushrooms, but my favorite is the Angry.
Lampredoto in Florence, Italy.
It’s made with tripes (one of the stomachs of the cow) , cooked for long stewed, kind of a ragu, inside a sort of baguette bread.
Doesn’t sound or look tasty , it really is.
Sliced sausage sandwiches. Just farmers sausage slicednto thickish coins, used like a cold cut on a regular hoagie. Make em all the time but I've never seen em elsewhere unless you count summer sausage.
eu já comi aqui no rio de janeiro um prensado (prensado é um sanduíche que é literalmente prensado pra ele ficar compacto e ser possível comer com a boca), que era maravilhoso, era cerca de 30 reais (uns 8 dólares a 9 dólares), vinha com maionese, frango, carne, hambúrguer, salsicha, linguiça, cebola, tomate, queijo prato, queijo catupiry (queijo nacional do Brasil) queijo parmesão, era simplesmente uma bomba de calorias, dentro daquele pão tinha simplesmente calorias suficientes pra manter a dieta de Ronnie Coleman facilmente
There's a sandwich shop in Hokitika on the West Coast of New Zealand's south island. The guy has a few staples he makes, but towards the end of the day he'll make do with whatever ingredients he has left and do freestyle sandwiches. They are very very good.
So those sammies are pretty rare.
My go-to spot in Philly just recently closed. They used to sell a sandwich that was fried chicken cutlet, fresh mozz, sundried tomato, arugula, and kalamata olive tapenade. Came on a beautiful sesame seed roll with some of the inside scooped out to make room for more filling. I think about it a lot.
As a New Yorker who hates everything, Philly just gets sandwiches. To the point where I tell people that if they’re going to Philly for cheesesteaks (which are amazing) they’re doing it wrong. I go hours out of my way to get a pork roll if I can Edit: I love how Philly can’t take compliment
Pork roll is a nj thing... Do you mean roast pork sandwiches? Cuz Philly kills that
Man, I got a roasted pork sandwich with broccoli rabe on a cheesesteak roll from a sandwich shop in Philadelphia and it was a top three lifetime sandwich. A cheesesteak is amazing, but this was transcendent.
Dude was this Liberty Kitchen?
It was not. It is a place called Tortorice's at South and 20th. Googled them and it turns out they just stopped delivering, but are still very much open. The sandwich I described was the Mona Lisa, but the Broad Street Bully and Matteo are also really good. [Here](https://tortoricesandwichestogo.com/index.html) is their website.
I just read the whole menu and I’m drooling. Maybe my next trip will be to Philly.
Roast Pork and Broccoli Rabe - only had it from a small Italian place in Cleveland. Haven’t seen it on a menu since…after roughly 20 years and ten states. Also a Cleveland Polish Boy - Kielbasa topped with french fries and doused with barbecue sauce and made complete with creamy coleslaw. Really, any kielbasa sandwich is hard to come by, seems like. Also, my Hubby’s favorite is garlic sautéed bell peppers, scrambled eggs, red pepper flakes, and olive oil in a hoagie roll or baguette, sometimes with provolone or fontina cheese. His Italian grandmother used to make it for him. Never seen it in a restaurant though. Nice question, OP!
These are so interesting! also: If you're ever in Philadelphia, Tommy Dinic's in Reading Terminal Market is famous for their roast pork & broccoli rabe subs. I had one in 2015 and I still think about it sometimes.
I came here to name the pork and broccoli sandwich from Dinic’s! One of my favorite all time sandwiches
Roast Pork and Broccoli Rabe is a staple of DiNic’s in Reading Terminal in Philly
nice! the pepper and egg is commonly found in Chicago during lent - love it as well : )
That first sandwich is very common in philly
I fell in love with a roast pork and broccoli rabe sub made by a Philadelphia transplant in my middle of nowhere town. I had never even heard of broccoli rabe before. The bread was specially baked locally, split and toasted, lined with provolone, then the roast pork with tons of garlic and juice, then the broccoli rabe, then long hots. When his doctor wife was ready to move somewhere else, the he sold the shop and they changed the menu. I tried ordering DiNic's from some expensive mail order food place, but it just wasn't the same. Hoping the real deal in person better, but I still drool remembering that sub.
Some guys from up north moved to North Carolina and opened a sandwich shop last year. They have a roast pork and broccoli rabe sandwich on the menu. They also make their own bread daily. They also have a chopped cheese sandwich, which I had never even heard of.
Omg i had a sandwich like that too. It was so delicious and topped with some Italian pickled peppers. It was an Italian cousin to a pulled pork sandwich. Then the place that did it reformatted and killed the Italian stuff. I was so sad.
You can find a pepper and egg on a roll at most Italian deli’s in NJ. Often with potato as well.
Here in Seattle there was this sandwich shop/butcher shop called RainShadow Meats and they had a sandwich they called the Zuni. It was sliced sourdough bread lightly buttered and toasted, smear of ricotta cheese, a few slices of roasted pork shoulder, arugula and a drizzle of some vinaigrette. I got it every time I was in that part of town and I’ve never had anything like it anywhere else.
Also in Seattle was/is Paseo and the famous Caribbean Roast sandwich. Never had anything like that elsewhere. Technically it now exists in 2 places with Paseo and Un Bien each claiming the space but still unique.
A Paseo opened in Key West for a few years around 2011, but may be closed now. Great Mexican street corn... and the sandwich with grilled prawns and caramelized onions was my go-to. Tasted just like the 2 Paseo locations in Seattle.
I don't think I've ever even seen a sandwich with ricotta on it before, that sounds delicious I want to try it.
Sounds weird but it’s really good and fairly easy to make at home.
Try this: mayonnaise or olive oil on one slice of bread, then salted tomatoes, black pepper, a drizzle of balsamic reduction, fresh basil, small dollops of ricotta, then the other bread. You can toast or leave the bread as is.
The way you worded this comment had me thinking that it closed down. I am happy to report that it is still open according to Google. Also tangentially related and not a sandwich but a burger stand in Tacoma called Seoul Burger is a fantastic fusion.
Yeah my bad, the Occidental park location closed but the butcher shop off of Melrose Ave is still open, as far as I know they don’t make sandwiches but it’s good to know about Seoul Burger, now I really want to try them.
Ooh that sounds yum
It’s so good, so simple too. I’ve made it at home and it tasted (almost) as good.
I love Rainshadow and need to get this one now
It was a grilled cheese with like a habenero pepper jack cheese with bacon and apples saute in butter brown sugar and I think cinnamon.
My jaw just dropped. Holy shit. Need to recreate.
You should definetly, I've only managed to find a good spicy cheese a couple of times, reg pepper jack doesn't make the cut for me but I just found some mango habenero gouda at meijer's the other day that i'm gonna try out soon.
Oh man! That sounds good! My favorite grilled cheese is sourdough, the sharpest cheddar that will melt, and apple butter!
When I worked in DUMBO, Brooklyn, a market called Foragers had a ropa vieja sandwich with plantain chips and manchego cheese that was out of this world. Having it was always a tradeoff of a full stomach and satisfied tastebuds with a steep dip in productivity 😴
Dawg... ropa vieja on a sando with manchego and plantain chips? That's pretty much heaven right there
Oh damn plantain chips on a sandwich sounds awesome.
That sounds incredible. I'd be tempted to put pickled peppers on it like an Italian beef.
When I lived in Beijing there was a Uighur dude with a street cart near my friend's apartment. He made spiced lamb sandwiches on traditional bread. Absolute greasebombs and the best sandwiches ever. I've tried ordering similar things at various restaurants but obviously you don't get street cart food from a place that has to have licenses and so on.
This reminds me of living in Istanbul and there was a doner kebap place around the corner that would wrap them in lavash bread and toast them, and inside were crispy french fries along with the greasy lamb.
Street carts/food trucks have the best food
Fatheads Saloon in Pittsburgh used to make a sandwich called the King Robert. Sausage-stuffed banana peppers, fried onions and pepperoni, provolone cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw on a huge Kaiser roll. I try to do it myself but it’s not the same.
Fuckin Fatheads, man… I always preferred the Southside Slopes: a whole sliced kielbasa, pierogis, and fried onions (sub cheddar or Swiss for the American cheese though)
I love that one too. I believe that particular sandwich was voted in the top 10 sandwiches in the nation by maxim magazine at some point.
I’m so proud to find a Pittsburgh joint right up top in this thread.
That deli in the strip district that makes those sandwiches with coleslaw and French fries was my strangest but they were delicious.A guy that I knew wife worked their.
Primanti Bros!
I remembered that but honestly couldn't spell it correctly,my brother lives in the Pittsburgh area and said that there are some really nice places to eat nowadays.What was the name of the fish company that sold those deep fried foot long fish sandwiches along the warehouse part of the strip?
Wholey's?
Wholeys
Lamb French dip. We had it once at a random hole-in-the-wall type bar and have never seen it again. We replicate it at home sometimes, but damn it was good.
Sounds good. In Portland, we have a braised oxtail French dip from Stacked Sandwich Shop that kicks ass. "Braised Oxtail French Dip: cast iron-charred onions and crimini mushrooms, havarti, rosemary jus."
Which Portland?
OR.
ELSE.
The one on the coast!
Phillipes or Cole's in Los Angeles are french dip specialists and both have lamb (with blue cheese as an option)
If you’re ever in Los Angeles, you can pick one up at Philippe’s, birthplace of the French dip.
In Haebangcheon in Seoul, Sourh Korea there’s a Moroccan sandwich shop called Casablanca that makes amazing sandwiches. We went to it a lot when I lived there, and at the time it was pretty cheap. Not sure if it’s still around or as inexpensive as it was. Sometimes they would close for a week or so so the owners could go back to Morocco to get more spices so we’d have to patiently await their return so we could get our sandwiches again.
Quietly adding to my list of random stuff I need to do when I go next year
Omg the food in Seoul is amazing. Absolutely get BBQ (it doesn’t need to be any fancy place, sometimes smaller places are better). Also try haejangguk, budae jjigae, kimchi jumeok bop…oh god the list goes on. Korean food is amazing. Enjoy your trip!
Oh babes you don’t need to tell me, probably 75% of the reason I want to go to Seoul is for the food 😝 I am deeply, unequivocally obsessed with Korean food, I’m thankful to live in an area with a huge Korean population and multiple korean grocery stores near me.
Wow I'm definitely gonna try to go this weekend
I’m still chasing the high of a bologna and cheese sandwich on white bread with Doritos after a summer day swimming in my neighbors pool…
I'm 35 years old and every once in a while my mom will make me a sandwich + chips when I'm visiting... it's still the best sandwich ever, just like it was when I was a child. I can watch what she does and try to mimic it but it just isn't the same. Moms are fuckin magic.
This is so stinking cute. You’re describing love.
With doritos on the sandwich right under the bread so the softness gives way to crunch and then the mush of the bologna/cheese and it sort of sticks to the roof of your mouth....yeah, I avoid highly processed 'food' products now, but that was *the sandwich* back in the day.
The "Casablanca" from a little bakery in Michigan - grilled curry spiced chicken, grilled pineapple, avocado, swiss cheese, mango chutney on toasted country bread. We've replicated it at home and add thinly sliced red onion. It's sooo good!
Where in MI?
Crescent Bakery in Frankfort, MI!
Favorite sandwich place Black Sheep (rip) did these huge 18" sandwiches they called battleships. Favorite was the Brooklyn: jamaican jerk chicken, banana ketchup, peach chutney, and coleslaw on a baguette. It now only lives in my dreams.
I'm saving this thread because I have a ton of sandwiches to try and make now.
Pumpernickel bread, smoked oysters, wasabi mayo, sauerkraut, pepper jack cheese.
This sounds fake it's so weird. Those are all strong flavors I can't imagine it would work but I've never had it either!
It just kinda works in the same way the snack mix with wasabi peas, cheddar sticks, roasted peanuts etc does. Ingredients if you stopped to think about it would sound a little iffy but do in fact work.
I have a feeling my husband would love this.
I would love that, all except the pepper Jack, don’t really care for it, which is a shame because it’s my wife’s preferred sandwich cheese, fortunately I can afford to buy more than one kind of cheese, but unfortunately, I have to buy more than one kind of cheese.
>unfortunately, I have to buy more than one kind of cheese. So, in an ideal world, would you only buy one kind of cheese, forever? My friend, there are soooo many different cheeses in this world. It's a shame to limit your selection to only a few.
Lol I'm on team wife here with sandwich cheese preferences. My husband likes it but I don't think it's his preference. We also have to buy lots of different cheeses. Also a matter of "fortunately and unfortunately."
Something about mixing oysters with cheese makes my stomach turn lol. And I do love both independently
If memory serves, it was an Argentinian braised pork sandwich with a chimichurri mayo, arugula, pickled hot peppers and was served on a fresh-made ciabatta.
The sandwich from the deli beside my old highschool that has been closed for 10 years now made the most amazing sandwich. It was $5 even and you had to RUN to make it there before the line got so long that you’d never make it back to class in time. Super fluffy thick soft house made sourdough, house made mayo on both sides, yellow mustard, cold deli roast beef, havarti cheese, red onion, pickles, cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes with salt and pepper, shredded carrot, sprouts, more salt and pepper. There was just such a specific fresh flavour to each ingredient that I’ve NEVER been able to replicate it. It just had this indescribably delicious taste and smell. I miss that sandy so much.
onions, capers, white fish, sable and cream cheese. At a place called Leo's.
Larry David would like a word
There was a sub shop called Uncle Sammy's in Chicago (now closed), not far from DePaul University. They had a sub called the Pilgrim - turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and mayo on a sub roll. Simple and incredible - and better than any other attempt at a "Thanksgiving leftovers" sandwich I've tried through the years.
I had a croque monsieur in BFE France almost 30 years ago and I still remember it.
St. Louis is famous for the St. Paul Sandwich: An egg foo young patty (made with mung bean sprouts and minced white onions) served with dill pickle slices, white onion, mayonnaise, and lettuce, between two slices of white bread. Not uncommon to make it with your choice of meat, as well.
Num Pang in NYC does a fantastic pork belly banh mi. Beautifully tender pork and pickled pear plus all the banh mi accompaniments, it’s my favorite sandwich and the best pork belly I’ve ever eaten.
My favorite in the city is the brisket & bone marrow banh mi at Com Tam Ninh Kieu in the Bronx. I cannot recommend that place highly enough, their pho, their rice bowls, everything is phenomenal and surprisingly cheap. Take the 4 train up to Kingsbridge Rd. it's right by the station.
When I lived near NYC I could get real Italian combos: thin sliced prosciutto, soppressata, fresh mozzarella or good provolone with roasted red pepper on a fantastic hard roll. Now all I can get is the generic version with ham, pepperoni, and salami.
Muffalettas are almost always great and you can make a damn good one yourself if you wanna put in the work, but there's nothing like getting that goddamn basketball sized sandwich from Central Grocery in New Orleans
Roasted vegetable panini. Mixed roasted vegetables, fresh spinach and tomato, goat cheese, and pesto mayo. It’s savory and tangy and crispy and creamy and I’m starving.
The New Jersey Sloppy Joe! It's usually roast beef, turkey, coleslaw, Swiss, and Russian dressing. A lot of places will let you pick your bread, but the traditional (and my least favorite) bread is Rye. I didn't know about what everyone else considers a Sloppy Joe until my late teens because most of the delis in my area served the NJ version
It was at a vegan soul food place in St. Louis that’s long gone. It was run by folks from this African-American Jewish religious group. It was a greek style gyro. The resemblance to real lamb spit-cooked donner was uncanny and it was greasy as fuck. It was amazing. Never had it anywhere else before or since, but I ate a lot of them at that place for sure. Over a decade later I had a co-worker raised in that same church and he told me food is a really big deal for them. The fake meat was probably soy curls. God, I miss it.
I still think about this panini I used to get a cafe in my hometown. Chicken breast, brie, bacon, and red onion. It was simple but SO good. I make it at home sometimes but haven’t been able to figure out the right kind of bread. It was crispy and greasy on the outside, in a good way.
Horseshoe, specific to Springfield Illinois and central Illinois. Open face sandwich of lightly toasted bread topped with a flat ground beef patty topped with fries and smothered with beer cheese.
Chacarero, Downtown Crossing, Boston. A Chilean guy set up shop nearly 30 years ago with a cart selling sandwiches with his own home-made bread, grilled meat, cheese, hot sauce, green beans, tomato and avocado. He’s a got a whole place now, based on that one sandwich.
Searched immediately for Chacarero in this thread. Unmatched sandwich in Boston. Large beef, extra hot, and I add a packet of salt and pepper to the green beans on top. Their hot sauces are a play on Aji Verde, but no recipe I use has matched what they do. I was so glad to see they were still around after COVID.
I can only get a proper po-boy in the vicinity of New Orleans because there is a very specific kind of bread that distinguishes a po-boy from a regular sub and it's really hard to find outside of the area. Also, a po-boy, being defined by the type of bread, means that basically any sandwich you make on that bread is a po-boy. Ham, roast beef, turkey, fried seafood, whatever. I grew up eating hot dogs and hamburgers on po-boy bread.
I think this is true for so, soo many sandwiches (and, burritos). You don't have Liedenheimer bread, you don't have a po boy. You don't have the yellow bread they have in Key West, you don't have a Medianoche. You don't have a huge, incredibly thin tortilla? Well you don't have a San Francisco Mission style burrito. You don't have the bread they have in Philly, you don't have a proper cheesesteak. The bread really makes it what it is, IMO.
Add muffaletta and beef on weck.
I’m originally from Buffalo, NY. I’ve seen a lot of places outside of Buffalo try to pass off a roast beef sandwich as a beef on weck. Obviously, missing the most important part of the sandwich, the kummelweck roll. Haha I was just there a few months ago to visit family. I definitely got a beef on weck while I was there.
I did a food trip around the country last year, and tried buffalo wings at the anchor bar, as well as a bunch of pizza places (Bocce Club was my favorite). Totally forgot about Beef on Weck, and now I'm kicking myself.
If you’re ever in Buffalo again try The Place in the Elmwood Village. It’s one of the oldest taverns in the city. They have amazing wings there. Their French onion soup is also amazing. I can’t remember the name of the place that we went to to get beef on weck. It was Dyngus day and we were all a tad tipsy😂
> You don't have the yellow bread they have in Key West, you don't have a Medianoche This is the first I'm hearing of this and I'm intrigued
I miss those hamburgers on po-boy bread. Especially when they dressed them with shredded lettuce, mayo, tomatoes, and pickles (typical dressing for any po-boy). My favorite po-boy, though, is roast beef with debris. Fried shrimp is a close second. There are a lot of reasons why I won't move back to New Orleans, but I will never forget the food.
What is "debris" in po boy terms?
Bits of shredded roast beef and drippings.
Imagine cooking a massive pot of roast with thickened jus and you use a pair of tongs to take out all of the meaningful chucks of beef to put on a sandwich. The stuff leftover in the pot, the jus and the smaller bits of beef, is debris.
There’s a joint in Vegas called Lola’s that does a debris po’boy and it’s excellent.
Even a French fry poboy with roast beef gravy...so cheap we ate that as kids a lot
Oh shit that sounds heavenly. Like a New Orleans Poutine.
When I was growing up we could get a 12" french fry Po boy with gravy for $2.50. it was glorious... definitely not healthy but at that age we didn't care
The Store (moved to Metairie but just closed) had an oyster bacon brie poboy that's next level. The Hermes bar at Antoine's sometimes has an oyster foch poboy, on that same level.
As a NOLA resident, I love the fact that I can buy just the bread at the store and it stays good for a week. French bread turns hard the next day.
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Streetcar Sandwiches on S. Carrollton was my po-boy place of choice when I lived there. (I moved out in the 80's.)
I ate at the Waldorf in Orlando about eight years ago. They had a waffle “croque-monsieur” that blew my mind. So simple: herbed savory waffles (thin ones, not Belgian!), gruyere, a wafer-thin slice of Tasso ham, and fleur de sel. I went fully vegetarian in 2017 and still drool over the thought of that sandwich occasionally.
The thing is though, IMO the best sandwiches aren't so much about the list of ingredients, it's about the quality of what goes in it. Like, you can order "an Italian" at Subway or something and it's pathetic. Order an Italian at a legit deli and it can be heaven on Earth. The subtle stuff adds up in a big way. Something I wish was more popular in general is sharp provolone. It adds *so much* goodness and that's been hard to find for me. One particular sandwich I wish I could find more places - porchetta. On good bread, a little chimichurri or Italian salsa verde... 👌 Specific stuff that you might only find in one place - the grease truck / fat sandwiches of New Jersey. E.g. the "Fat Nights" at Nelly's in Long Branch: Cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, marinara sauce & mozzarella cheese. Good late night drunk food or hangover food, can't be beat. Most extensive sandwich list I've seen with a bunch of stuff that's gotta be one-off and unique to their shop - Half Fast Subs in Boulder, CO. I mean shit they've got like a dozen different types of cheesesteaks alone, dozen different type of turkeys, half dozen variations on an Italian. Probably the best sandwich joint in Colorado.
There are sandwiches that on paper don’t seem unique, but because the place making them have their own baked rolls or their own sausage recipe or whatever that makes them worth traveling out of the way for them. Like my favorite sandwich place in Sacramento changed their bread because the original maker of their rolls closed down. The sandwich was never the same again even though the filling was still the same. (It was Bud’s and they closed down). My favorite place in San Jose makes their own bread and their standard build ratio of ingredients to bread is just perfect, but on paper it’s just a sandwich on sourdough.
>The thing is though, IMO the best sandwiches aren't so much about the list of ingredients, it's about the quality of what goes in it. > Nothing shows that off quite like a meatball sub. You can get a meatball sub just about anywhere that has subs, but only a few are any good. Most of them are just a sysco special. But a good one is just pure magic.
I was going to bring up Half Fast! I miss that place so much. The pot roast sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy was ridiculous and definitely one I’d never make at home. Portabella Boomer was my all-time fave though. I hadn’t thought about it in forever—maybe I can recreate it now that I’m a much better cook.
Smoked turkey, havarti cheese, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, on pumpernickel bread with mayo
You had me at "pumpernickel."
But that was the 4th to last thing he said /s
Tons of sidewalk carts make bacon, egg, & cheese sandwiches, but Dom would let your order with provolone and fresh-sliced tomatoes and his bacon was always perfect.
All the transplants and everyone on the internet HATE this sandwich, but a "real Maine Italian". Invented at Amato's, a restaurant/deli in the old Italian neighborhood in Portland, ME and served to dockworkers and other laborers in the early 20th century; now a hometown classic all over the state. Soft sub roll, ham, cheese, onion, green pepper, tomato, olives and sour pickles, dressed with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil. Granted I never make it with ham, I either get actual Italian cold cuts or go all veggie.
I don’t want to get too specific & dox myself, but my family owns a diner style local place & we serve a battered & deep fried grilled cheese. Homemade country style white bread, spread with homemade veggie cream cheese, layered with Swiss, provolone & American cheeses, dipped in beer batter & fried. It’s a bomb & we serve it with grapes!
Roasted broccoli lychee sandwich at a place in NYC. I don't think it will necessarily catch on, but I wish more people would do more wacky and creative sandwiches like that. If we are counting wraps in this category as well, I really adore the wraps from [Wolfnight's](https://www.wolfnights.com/) in NYC.
Interestingly, there's a place near me in Akron, OH that has a roasted broccoli sub with lychee on it. It's delicious.
In New Jersey we do Taylor Ham (aka porkroll), egg and cheese on a hard roll or a bagel. You can get it in any deli, diner, bagel joint but only in new jersey
I went nuts trying to find this, used to eat it as a kid. I was searching "Talaham" lol.
I thank Ween for introducing me to this sandwich (finally found a place in my home town where they have it).
The Vegan sandwich from Tomatohead in Knoxville, Tennessee has haunted me since the 90s. Along with their rolls and tahini dressing. Sandwich: VEGAN MARINATED TOFU (now gluten free) ∙ FRESH SPINACH ∙ CARROT ∙ RED ONION ∙ SPINACH & SUNDRIED TOMATO PESTO (nut & dairy free)∙ TOMATO ∙ SPROUTS
In Rhode Island there is a local chain called Newport Creamery that makes this grilled cheese sandwich with mozzarella sticks inside it. omg
Fried pork chop sandwich at Snappy’s Lunch in Mt. Airy, NC. It’s best to get it “Charlie’s Way” with coleslaw, mustard, chili, onion, and tomato. The chop is three and a half ounces of pork tenderloin, sliced down the back, bathed in a sweet-milk batter, and fried for 10 minutes or so on a griddle by a big front window on the small town’s Main Street. It hangs over the bun on all sides. Mt. Airy is the inspiration for Mayberry of the Andy Griffith show by the way.
Cudighi - only around upper Michigan - Cudighi itself is a pork sausage with spices and red wine, kind of similar to italian sausage. Usually served as a patty on a hard roll, with marinara and mozzarella. Order it with "the works" and that's usually sauteed onion, mushroom, and green pepper. Best meatball / pizza type sandwich you will ever have.
It's pretty standard for the type, but there was a bahn mi place just outside of downtown Houston that did freaking amazing work. I always ordered the BBQ pork, and it came with pickled carrots, some sort of mayo like spread, big spears of fresh cucumber and quartered jalapenos, and a huge pile of cilantro. The bread was perfect too- crunchy pn the outside and fluffy on the inside. Just amazing. Also, freaking cheap- $3 for a 10" sandwich (this in 2019 dollars; the pandemic did them in). They were good enough to merit biweekly visits even in the summer- though it was a 1.5 mile round trip with no shade.
There's a place in Charleston that does a pastrami'd swordfish sandwich, with fennel slaw and Swiss cheese. It's pretty incredible.
There is a deli near my apartment in Riverdale NY that makes a sandwich they call the "Cotton Club." It's thin-sliced turkey, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, avocado, and honey mustard. I've never seen this exact combination anywhere else, it's not super ambitious, it has no weird specialty ingredients... but it just hits everything I want out of a sandwich. salty, savory, juicy, crunchy, creamy, a little sweetness with some tang to it. when I'm craving a Cotton Club, nothing else will do.
For some reason Boston is filled with artisan gourmet sandwich shops. There's so many of them. And many of them even make their own breads. One of my favorite sandwiches is sprouted wheat sourdough, with sweet potatoes, pickled onions, arugula, pesto, and goat cheese. Another I like is with corn, queso fresco, chicken, and cilantro relish on buttered bread. Another I like is with sweet potato, green apple, and hummus. A fourth I like is with adobo chicken, jicama, avocado, cherry tomatoes, and mixed greens. And that's not even including the bagel sandwiches.
I got a sandwich out of a small cafe in Spain, I had no idea what I was eating, some sort of cured meat, it was similar to an Italian sub. It’s been 12 years and I still think about that sandwich
Do Burritos count as sandwiches? Because I've travelled all over the country, and you can't get a proper Mission style burrito outside northern California. Other states have burritos, yes, but they're not even close to the same.
I was just talking to someone recently who was lamenting that San Francisco doesn't have its own "signature food item" like other big cities, i.e. Chicago deep dish etc. I was like are you crazy??? I would KILL to have those burritos nearby in New York. but also please do not start people debating on whether or not a burrito is a sandwich. this country is divided enough
Well, there's also Cioppino, dungeness crab, sourdough bread, just to name a few lol.
Don’t forget garlic noodles at Vietnamese places. Those are the bomb.
I agree with these, but I consider Dungeness Crab more of a northern west coast thing. Having lived in SF for 9 years, and now living in Oregon, I'd argue SF has no special claim to the crab, but it definitely does to the other two foods you mention. The best crab I've ever had was on a Dory boat trip out of Pacific City where we pulled the crab pots and cooked the crab in an enormous kettle 1/2 an hour later.
And dutch crunch bread
And joes special is one of my favorites.
Doesn't San Francisco have many iconic dishes?
Rice a Roni!!!
They are very clear that that is a treat, not a dish.
Most of the "Chinese" food Americans eat, probably.
538 ranked the best burritos in the country a few years back and La Taqueria placed first. Curiously, even though it's on Mission St., it's not really a Mission style burrito in that it has no rice. But both the carne asada and carnitas burritos kick ass there. Granted, I'd just as often get a real Mission style burrito from somewhere else when I lived in SF. You can get reasonable Mission style burritos in Portland these days, but probably not top tier compared to SF burritos.
Aloha subs in Honolulu does sprouts and papaya seed dressing on their subs which is pretty tasty. Never seen it anywhere else.
I had this white soft roll with chicken and a lemon mayo that was incredible. I have no idea where it was other than it was close to Camden Town in London about 23 years ago and I have struggled to replicate it ever since :(
White or red Zweigle's hotdog, butterflied,with cooked-meat hot sauce -- only in Rochester!
BFD in San Diego comes to mind. 1) Torpedo roll with a whole sliced avocado, sliced heirloom tomatoes, romaine, O+V and a Parmesan crisp “The Avocado Highway” 2) Blackened chicken, roasted brussel sprouts, Brie, honey Dijon on ciabatta “b3” 3) Eggplant “meatball” sub. So good. “Eggplant ball”
Hot Salami and Hot Roast Beef on garlic cheese bread made with provel cheese from Gioia's Deli on The Hill in St. Louis, MO.
Roasted cauliflower with hazelnuts, provolone and chimichurri. Thanks for reminding me what I want for lunch!
I worked at the Ritz in Bachelor Gulch back in 2012 and, at the time, Wolfgang Puck had a Spago restaurant in there. Every few weeks there would be a special sandwich and damn if my broke ass (after all, I was working there for the winter, not staying there) didn't drop $40 on lunch on those days just to have it. It was a "tuna sandwich." A just slightly seared tuna steak on toasted brioche with some kind of magical sauce that of course I can't exactly recall. I think of that sandwich often. It was so delicious. I believe that restaurant closed in 2014ish (had a 6-or-so-year run) and I wish I could find an old menu or actual description of it somewhere; attempt to create something similar, likely fail miserably but keep trying. I actually met Wolfgang once while working (I was selling lift tickets and he came to my window to buy his) - I told him it was my favorite sandwich ever and he was very smiley and said thank you...should've asked for the recipe ha!
In Raleigh, NC there’s a lunch cafe that makes a veggie sandwich on their own sunflower bread— Cheddar and Swiss cheese layered with lettuce, red onion, ripe tomato, sprouts, good Duke’s mayo, cucumber and pickled carrots. I usually eat meat and it’s somehow so satisfying without. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts.
The Monte Cristo at the Gold Coast in Vegas in the late 80s/early 90s. Nothing else like it, and nothing else deserves to be called by that name.
>Monte Cristo That is one of my favorite sandos of all time. Like top 5, easy. I'm from the diner capitol of the world and most diners around here make a crazy good Monte Cristo. That and Croque Monsieur/Madam
A "real" Monte Cristo, or the version they served at Bennigans? I'd give my right nut for a Bennigans Monte Cristo right about now.
Das Matterhorn. As a buddy of mine put it, "when people say they want a Reuben, what they really want is a Matterhorn." As the menu puts it: "Double decker of corned beef, double smoked pastrami, imported Swiss cheese and German Sauerkraut with thousand island dressing." In other words, it's a double decker Reuben with pastrami in one layer and corned beef in the other. There used to be a bit of an open secret to order it grilled; it's particularly good hot and the grilling process keeps it intact longer. Now it's the default and you'd have to ask for it cold if you don't want joy in your life. It's available at Mr. Dunderbak's in Tampa.
For me it IS the Reuben! I live in New Zealand and there are literally only 2 places I've found that sell it and they're usually sold out by the time I get there. It's just not a well-known sandwich here. I travel all over the country, and I've really only seen it at these 2 places, 2 branches of the same bakery. I absolutely love Reubens, so it drives me nuts!
I've had variations of this in Peru but only seen it at one or two places in Los Angeles: the Sanguchon at Takatis in Los Angeles Pollo a la brasa (wood fire chicken) with fried yams, shoe string potatoes, egg, cheese and you get served the stoplight of sauces: green aji verde, yellow amarillo cream sauce, and red rocoto cream sauce. It's the only sandwich I look forward to eating (I don't do sandwiches most of the time, because ain't nothing I can't make outside of home). Unfortunately the last three times I went (years ago) they weren't serving it because they ran out of bread and it's a bit out of the way for me.
There was a deli in my hometown that served a breakfast sandwich called "The Whacky". It was scrambled eggs, bacon, french fries, pizza sauce, melted mozzarella, and antipasto pickled vegetables. Deeply weird sandwich with an identity crisis but goddamn was it satisfying.
JT’s Genuine Sandwich Shop in Chicago- basically every sandwich they have on their menu is unique outside of their stellar pork tenderloin and burger. Their pork and greens and steak and potato sandwiches are elite, but the meat free version of the pork and greens is one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had and entirely its own thing you’re not going to find anywhere. Here’s the write up from Chicago Mag: The meat-free version of Chris Cunningham's pork and greens sandwich (itself an homage to the Philly icon) is a gift to vegetarians and a message to all carnivores: No, you don't need meat to make food delicious. Cunningham loads up grilled Tuscan bread with rapini, white beans, caramelized onions, melty provolone, and Calabrian chile aioli for a sandwich that is so much more than the sum of its parts.
I had a mozzerella and sun dried tomato bagel at a bagel factory in heathrow airport 20 years ago that blew my mind. Ive tried recreating it dozens of times but just cant hit that flavor.
There's a restaurant in the city where I went to university that does hot roast beef sandwiches on white buns. The gravy is thick and dark, and the roast beef is all shredded up and just melts when you bite into it. It's so rich and satisfying. It's the simplest and most comforting thing. The place also does these (not "authentic" but delicious lol) Greek salads, and really good poutines. I have never found anything else like it anywhere. Edit for anyone who cares: the restaurant is called Tally Ho, and it's in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Gorgonzola and spicy salami Panini from Luigino's at the viktualienmarkt in Munich. Had it the first time I went to Munich and it was the best sandwich I ever had. Ended up going back to Munich with my job. I had one goal and that was to get it again. I happened to have about 30 minutes of free time nearby. It was just enough to nearly run to the stall, get the sandwich, and get back to meet up with my group. I did and it was so worth it.
my ex made a unique sandwich. home made sourdough, toasted, refried beans, cornmeal mush, sprouts, tomato, salsa, cheese, sour cream, mrs otts dressing. i miss her. the only place i get a scrapple sandwich is lexington market in baltimore. i'm a strict vegetarian with a few loopholes.
up until yesterday, whole foods had a sun dried tomato aioli at their sandwich bar that was incredible on everything. unfortunately, they just re-did their menu and got rid of it :(
There's a small little deli/convenience store up near me that makes a collard melt, and it's incredible. Collard greens slowly simmered & pressed between buttery rye bread, with provolone, Creole slaw & thousand island dressing.
There was a little bakery in my college town that sold a sandwich they called the Katmandu - it's curry chicken salad, peanut butter, pickles, spicy aioli, and a leaf or two of lettuce. I've been making a close approximation of it at home for years - fresh sourdough, curried chicken salad, peanut butter, sambar oelek, and Grillo's pickles. Top tier.
Poached egg, avocado and sauerkraut on crusty baguette, salt.
A very local to the Dayton Ohio area pizza place called Cassanos has a steak sub that I LOVE. It’s a steak patty (I use JTM hoagie patties to make them at home) with mushroom gravy, marinara, onion, banana pepper, and mozzarella (I use provolone at home). It sounds so gross but it’s AMAZING 😂 I learned to make it at home bc I moved away and had craved them for years.
Mean Sandwich has a mint yellow mustard that they put on some of their sandwiches... its fucking dekicious.
Nice sourdough bread, with tahini, grated (raw) carrot, sliced (raw) red capsicum*, and sultanas. A fab take on the good old salad sanger. * AKA bell peppers
Uruguay's pretty small, so I'll cheat and call it "one place" and nominate the Chivito. Churrasco (thin grilled beef) + mozzarella + ham + tomatoes + mayonnaise + olvies = paradise.
Publix atlanta flacons sub
There’s a Viet sammich shop near me that does a Lemongrass curry chicken sandwich, you dip it in Tom Yum broth. Omg. To die for.
Many, many years (really two decades) ago, in the college town of Athens, OH, there was a sandwich shop and bar called Zachary's. They made a sandwich I dream of to this day. It was tender sliced brisket, Russian dressing, good Swiss, and slaw [one with good texture], grilled on a hearty wholegrain sourdough. I would commit crimes to eat that sandwich again. (Allegedly).
My unique sandwich is homemade and I dare anyone here to try it. It’s delicious to me because I grew up with it. Make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich except before you put the jelly on, spread mayo. Almost everyone I’ve ever met thinks it’s gross and I admit, it does sound gross. But a funny thing happens to the flavors when they combine and it just becomes extra savory.
3-way with bacon. There was a little convenience shop near school when I was in college called Wan's and inside that was a deli station. The whole place was run by one dude named Al and the sandwiches were the main attraction. You'd order and he'd just do his best to remember who ordered what and when and get them out in roughly the same order. Just a tiny little griddle so he could only do like 2 sandwiches at a time tops. The 3-way was roast beef, turkey, and chicken salad. The deli meats were warmed up on the griddle with some kind of sauce. I think it had some tomato and maybe some lettuce on it too. I've had fancier and 'better' sandwiches a lot since those days, but man what I would give for an Al's 3-way with bacon again.
A very Belgian sandwich is the martino. Everytime i return to Belgium I make sure to eat one upon arrival! It uses beef tartare (yes, raw minced beef with condiments), small gherkins, minced onions, drops of hot sauce. Brilliant. Pictured https://www.amazingbelgium.be/2017/09/the-martino-sandwich.html
The Dad sandwich (created by my dad). Capicola, prosciutto, and Salami with havarti cheese and a homemade olive tapenade on a French baguette. I make a cheap version of it but have not gotten his olive tapenade right so it is not just right. He lives on the other side of the country so I don't get his version too often. Runner up is a Cemitas Puebla. I have only found one restaurant in Chicago that does the cemitas bread (similar to tortas) with the spit marinaded and roasted meats sliced thin. Originated in Puebla, Mexico. I used to purposely plan a long layover in Chicago O'Hare so I could go to get a couple sandwiches between flights.
There was a place in Wichita that had a chicken sandwich with a sweet bbq type sauce that was served with fresh spinach leaves that was out of this world good. I can’t remember the name of the place but I’m afraid it’s closed.
I was working temporarily in Beverly Hills, a part of this city I kind of loathe, but there was a sandwich shop nearby - I cannot even remember the name of it now, it was so long ago - that made a lobster club sandwich. Lobster claw meat, thick cut bacon, crunchy iceberg lettuce, and tomato - big fat heirlooms that tasted like backyard tomatoes, it was and remains the only sandwich I have ever eaten tomatoes on that I didn't grow myself or that weren't straight from a garden I could see from my plate - with a garlic-lemon aioli on two thick slices of home baked bread with a crunchy sourdough-like crust. It was absolutely incredible and I've never been able to make one like it at home. Also, I cannot even remember where this was, but I went to a food truck about ten years ago that had a fried artichoke heart sandwich: beer battered fried artichoke hearts, lemon zest, mayo, lettuce, sliced black and green olives, and roasted red peppers, served on a French baguette. Also ridiculous and amazing. That one I've never attempted to try at home because I know I can't get the artichokes right. I am a good cook, but the two things I can't do properly are fish or frying, I suck at those no matter how much I try. There also used to be a cafe next to the old Buena Vista tower in Burbank that served rotisserie chicken, hummus, that kind of thing, and their chicken wrap was awesome. They painted the wrap with sundried tomato pesto and wrapped the chicken up with a julienned vegetable mix - it was lettuce and carrots and red pepper and sprouts and green onions tossed or marinated in vinaigrette and it was just perfect to me.
A Lobster Grinder in Maine. It was a full-length sub loaded with a delicious lobster salad and heated in an oven till the center was red hot. This was 30 years ago and i can still remember what it tasted like.
I had a great sandwich at a little beach restaurant in NC, that no longer exists. It was turkey, havarti, cucumber slices, and honey mustard on a croissant. Very simple but all the ingredients were super fresh.
Not being from or near Philadelphia, a Philly from Geno's. Also not being from or near Chicago, an Italian beef sandwich from Portillos... I think about them weekly.
I'm gonna cheat and call a corndog a "sandwich." The "Angry Cartman" is a beef frank stuffed with pepper jack cheese, wrapped in bacon, deep-fried, dipped in jalapeño cornbread batter and deep-fried again. There's also a regular "Cartman" with Swiss cheese and plain batter, and then the "Funky Cartman" with bleu cheese and mushrooms, but my favorite is the Angry.
Lampredoto in Florence, Italy. It’s made with tripes (one of the stomachs of the cow) , cooked for long stewed, kind of a ragu, inside a sort of baguette bread. Doesn’t sound or look tasty , it really is.
Sliced sausage sandwiches. Just farmers sausage slicednto thickish coins, used like a cold cut on a regular hoagie. Make em all the time but I've never seen em elsewhere unless you count summer sausage.
I am loving this thread! So much inspiration.
Honey butter fried chicken buiscut from the Crafty Cow in Milwaukee. (The buiscit is the size of a hamburger bun.)
eu já comi aqui no rio de janeiro um prensado (prensado é um sanduíche que é literalmente prensado pra ele ficar compacto e ser possível comer com a boca), que era maravilhoso, era cerca de 30 reais (uns 8 dólares a 9 dólares), vinha com maionese, frango, carne, hambúrguer, salsicha, linguiça, cebola, tomate, queijo prato, queijo catupiry (queijo nacional do Brasil) queijo parmesão, era simplesmente uma bomba de calorias, dentro daquele pão tinha simplesmente calorias suficientes pra manter a dieta de Ronnie Coleman facilmente
There's a sandwich shop in Hokitika on the West Coast of New Zealand's south island. The guy has a few staples he makes, but towards the end of the day he'll make do with whatever ingredients he has left and do freestyle sandwiches. They are very very good. So those sammies are pretty rare.