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- Cafe Mondo sees Mondo Sando going permanent in Camberwell
29/10/24 - updated with the opening date.
They've found lots of success with their sandwich residencies, particularly in the Grove House Tavern in Camberwell, but now sarnie kings Mondo Sando are getting ready to go it alone. Run by co-founders Jack Macrae and Viggo Blegvad, they're opening the standalone Cafe Mondo in Camberwell.
The new place is billed as a sandwich cafe by
... - Sarnie Party sandwich festival is hitting London this month
If your weekends are spent tracking down the best sandwiches in town - and we wouldn't judge you for that - then you're going to need to free up the weekend of 17-19 May in your diary. That's when Sarnie Party is taking over the Camden Town Brewery in Kentish Town for three days of devotion to things in bread.
The festival, curated by Meatopia's Molly Hutchinson and Allie Behr of Hot Sauce
... - Dom's Subs are on the move in the City, heading to Ludgate Circus and Leadenhall
17/1/24 - updated with opening details.
Just a few short months after they closed their store in Bevis Marks, to the despair of City workers, sandwich folk Dom's Subs are storming back, opening up not one but two sandwich shops in the Square Mile again. Back in October, they opened at Ludgate Circus in an incredibly small space described by them as a "little teeny tiny sandwich
... - London's best Christmas sandwiches for 2023
Presenting our annual festive guide to the best Christmas sandwiches on offer in London for 2023.
- Gerry's Hot Subs sees Bodean's founder serving sandwiches on Exmouth Market
Battersea foodies were the first to try the submarine rolls from Gerry's Hot Subs, a new business which traded out of the Foodstar Battersea Kitchen. But now the business has headed east and is about to open up on Exmouth Market.
The reason we're interested in this particular sandwich shop is the man behind it, Andre Blais. Blais is the man who founded BBQ restaurant Bodean's. Named after Andre's dad, Gerry's Hot Subs
... - Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields
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Last summer, a trio of sandwich obsessives began making a name for themselves with the Crunch pop-up in Shoreditch. The group comprises Alexandre Yonan and Michael Medovnikov, who'd met at college, and chef Joni Francisco. Francisco trained under Alexis Gauthier at Gauthier Soho and Nuno Mendes at Chiltern Firehouse before becoming executive chef for the Experimental Group. It took a
... - London's best sandos - the sandwich as art form
Sandos - they're just so pleasing to the eye aren't they? London, as you might imagine, has its fair share of these symmetrically-crafted sandwiches on offer. If you hate crusts, then come this way.
- Sons + Daughters sandwiches hit up Borough
Updated 20/9/22 with opening date
If inventive, towering sarnies stacked with the best ingredients are your thing, then we bring you good news indeed. The folks behind Sons + Daughters sandwiches in Coal Drops Yard are expanding. They're taking over the old 26 Grains site on Stoney Street at Borough Market for their second sandwich shop.
"After a long search we couldn’t be more pleased
... - Mondo Sando pops up at The White Horse in Peckham
Having built a name for their top-tier subs in Camberwell, sandwich slingers Mondo Sando are doubling up. They're just about to open a second South East London residency, this time at The White Horse in Peckham.
The lockdown-born business will serve up a new roster of sarnies, alongside an extended menu of dishes using the pub's charcoal grill.
The all-day dining residency will also feature yakitori skewers, merguez
... - Mamma Pastrama is a modern pastrami shop hitting Carnaby from Jay Morjaria
Pastrami lovers are going to be in seventh heaven when a new sandwich shop in Carnaby opens. Mamma Pastrama is the brainchild of chef Jay Morjaria (whose food we loved at JAE) and Vagabond co-founders Stephen Finch and Kieran Sherlock. They say they've taken on the classic American sarnie and given it a
... - Behold the Max's Sandwich Shop mash-up with Patty & Bun
Well, I think we can safely say that this is going to be popular.
Max’s Sandwich Shop has got into bed with burger slingers Patty&Bun for a limited edition burger special that sounds like the best of both their worlds.
If you've been to Max's place in Crouch Hill you'll know what a glorious beast his Ham, Egg N chips sarnie is. Now, he's presenting Londoners with the Ham, Egg, ‘N”
... - Bodega Rita's and their sandwiches are back, this time in Clerkenwell
They may be gearing up to opening their main restaurant in Soho, but that's not all we're getting from Rita's. Their sandwich offshoot Bodega Rita's is coming back too - this time opening in Clerkenwell.
There's a new menu of American-style subs that includes:
- The Tony - deli sub filled with pesto, prosciutto, spiced salami ventricina, smoked cheese,
- The Secret Sandwich Shop opens in Notting Hill
They've been delivering across London for a few weeks now, but later this week The Secret Sandwich Shop will actually open their real-life sandwich shop. They're putting out sandwiches with an East Asian twist, all based on the Japanese Wanpaku sandwich and on the menu are:
- The Secret Sandwich - 5 Seasonal Vegetables, with Avocado, Tomato and Kewpie Mayo
- The
- Dom's Subs are expanding with a second sandwich shop planned for the City in Bevis Marks
Updated 16/3/21 with opening date
London's sandwich market is hugely competitive, so anyone clawing their way to the top of the panini pile has to be congratulated. Even more so - when that company's an independent. But Dom's Subs in Hackney have captured Londoners'
... - Three Sheets in Dalston are serving up lockdown sarnies you need to try
Since London bars have been closed for what feels like forever, some have changed up their offering during the lockdown.
One such award-winning bar doing just that is Dalston's Three Sheets. Unable to open to serve up their normal cracking cocktails, they've been operating as a coffee and sandwich bar. And it's the latter part of that offering which has us interested.
They've started teaming up
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