The 43 Best Sandwich Shops in the World

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Turkey and the Wolf is a sandwich counter at the front of the Venetian's Via Via Food Hall, which means you eat at shared tables with Scarr's Pizza and Ivan Ramen as neighbors. The fried bologna sandwich comes on butter-griddled bread with potato chips tucked inside, and it's large even by Vegas standards. The collard green melt on rye is the one to split with whoever you brought. Counter-service prices, napkins required.

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Cheesesteaks and pizza from a shop that takes both more seriously than most fine-dining kitchens take their tasting menus. Little Arthur's started as a pop-up and landed in a sunny little beer bar on Seventh Avenue, where the sourcing is meticulous and the portions are generous enough to make the prices feel fair. Mozzarella sticks and loaded fries round out a menu that reads casual but cooks deliberate.

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A fast-casual sandwich shop tucked inside a converted historic hospital, A Mano Panino is built around schiacciata, a Tuscan bread that lands somewhere between focaccia and a cracker in the best possible way. Roast beef with demi-glace, ahi tuna with caper mayo, the menu reads like someone took Italian technique seriously but still wanted lunch to be portable. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. Grab a seat on the patio.

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An old-school deli in St. Louis's historic Italian-American neighborhood, Gioia's has been feeding the same families for so long that when a James Beard America's Classics award arrived, locals mostly just smiled politely. The hot salami sandwich, made from a house recipe of beef, pig's head, and spices and sliced to order, is what everyone comes for. Pick your bread, pick your cheese, and try not to overthink it.

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The sandwich here starts with bread baked fresh that day, then gets filled with Calabrian sausage, 'nduja, Tropea onions, or caciocavallo from the Sila plateau, depending on your mood. It's a fast-casual spot built around showcasing small local producers, which sounds like a pitch deck but eats like lunch. The formula has been spreading to other Italian cities, and 50 Top Italy ranked it first among the country's sandwiches.

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A sandwich shop in Milan built around one very specific idea: pork from Sienese and Chianina pigs, raised outdoors in Tuscany, smoked over fruit wood, slow-cooked for twelve hours, then finished on oak. The bread comes from ancient Verna wheat, and you pick your sauce from a short list of house-made options. The queue tends to answer any remaining questions you might have.

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A sandwich shop and wine bar on the main square of a small Calabrian coastal town, where the menu changes often enough that locals have a reason to keep coming back. The fillings lean hard into regional pantry staples, capocollo, caciocavallo, and 'nduja tucked into house-made pitta or ciabatta, with vegetables that track the season. The sandwiches even have names worth reading. Ranked seventh on 50 Top Italy's Best Sandwiches list.

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This is a counter-service breakfast sandwich shop that came up from Los Angeles and now collects sleepy tourists in a line that wraps around the building from early morning until noon. The sandwiches are warm, built to be carried, and priced like a sensible meal in a town that prefers otherwise. Eggs go on brioche or baguette, sometimes with steak, and nobody inside is dressed for anything beyond the walk back to the Strip.

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Focaccia sandwiches stacked with Italian cold cuts are the entire point here, and Lorenzo California commits to that premise with no apologies. The tiny cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard does Florentine-style sandwiches from a small counter, with a few seats inside and a handful of tables outside for watching Beverly Hills do its thing. The Los Angeles Times put it on their 101 best restaurants list, which is a lot of recognition for a sandwich shop, and yet.

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A milkshake loaded with broken toffee, whipped cream, and a cherry is the move after a sandwich here, and the sandwich earns it. This Southern Highlands sandwich shop serves thick-cut heritage ham on country bread with hot honey, smash burgers with ghost sauce, and a croissant chicken salad, all casual-counter pricing. The shakes run a dozen options and trend toward maximalist. Good for a neighborhood lunch that doesn't make you feel like you're in a suburb.

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A bifana is Lisbon's street-food baseline: thin pork shank fried in pork fat, stuffed into a crusty roll, finished with mustard from a squeeze bottle or a few drops of piri piri. This counter on the steep Rua da Madalena has been doing exactly that for decades, and the queue outside remains the only review that matters. Simple, cheap, and completely without pretension, which is probably why the line includes everyone.

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A Vietnamese sandwich shop in Hackney so small it barely has room to be modest about itself. One table, a few seats, and a duo behind the counter pressing fresh bánh mì to order. The baguette alone is the kind of thing that makes you reconsider every other baguette you've ever met. Eater counts it among London's 38 best restaurants, which is a lot of weight for a shop this size to carry.

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A panini shop a few streets from Barceloneta beach, Compà is devoted to the flavors of Calabria, which means 'nduja, smoked provolone, stracciatella, and lardo all showing up between bread. That bread matters: everything is pressed and served piping hot on slow-fermented focaccia. A rotating menu of nearly a dozen sandwiches keeps regulars guessing, and a second location has since opened in Gràcia for anyone uptown who can't stop thinking about it.

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The bifana here is the Porto version: thin pork shank braised in a spicy red sauce, not grilled, stuffed into a crusty roll with enough sauce to guarantee sticky fingers. This old-school snack bar across from Campanhã station has been doing it longer than most regulars can remember, and a cold draft beer is the assumed companion. Caldo verde and papas de sarrabulho keep things honest for anyone who wanders past a sandwich.

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The milk buns here come stuffed with American cheddar, egg, and potato hash, finished with a dill-heavy riff on Big Mac sauce, which tells you exactly where this bread shoppe's head is at. Hoagies on house-baked ciabatta, a four-cheese toastie loaded with mushrooms and smoked salt, and a halal-friendly meat selection keep the queue moving through Jubilee Avenue. Carbs as a serious vocation, dressed as a casual sandwich stop.

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Schiacciata, the flatter, crispier Tuscan cousin of focaccia, is the foundation every sandwich here is built on. This downtown Petaluma deli, market, and bottle shop loads it with prosciutto, porchetta, or a spicy spreadable sausage, then piles on broccoli rabe or burrata depending on your sandwich of choice. The shelves behind you are stocked with oil-preserved chiles and Italian pantry goods, so it's easy to leave with more than you planned.

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Cosi is a casual Saint-Germain sandwich spot built around thin focaccia baked to order in a wood-fired oven, which comes out hot enough that you'll burn your fingers and say nothing. The menu runs long enough to cover two weeks without a repeat, and it has actual tables and a bathroom, a rarity for sandwiches in Paris. Expect regulars and tourists sharing the room, both pretending they're not here for the same reason.

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The bread comes from Leidenheimer, the legendary New Orleans bakery, which tells you most of what you need to know about this po'boy shop's priorities. Gulf seafood and roasted meats get stuffed into fresh baguettes with all the classic condiments, and a Thanksgiving Everyday option, turkey with cornbread stuffing and cranberry sauce, quietly steals the room. A bananas foster old-fashioned is on the cocktail list, because of course it is.

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Faste is a croque monsieur specialist near Gare de l'Est, which means the sandwiches here are built from thick slices of bread and so much cheese sauce that cutlery and possibly a bib come into play. There's a mushroom and tarragon version for the vegetarians, and a tasting platter if you can't commit to one. The room is small and airy, with a few tables outside, and it's an easy lunch stop before or after a train.

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A cheesemonger's counter on the top floor of the Printemps department store, where the croque skips the usual béchamel blanket and lets the cheese do the talking, on thin brioche. It's casual, priced like a department-store lunch, and fine to eat in your shopping-bag posture. The terrace looks over the Opéra Garnier, with the Eiffel Tower in the distance. The Infatuation ranked it among the best sandwiches in Paris.

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This is a Syrian falafel counter on the Faubourg Saint-Denis, where the sandwich is the whole point and the whole menu. Thin flatbread gets a swipe of hummus and eggplant cooked down to near purée, then sesame-flecked falafel and pink pickled turnips for a little acid. The Infatuation put it on a Best Sandwiches In Paris list, yet you can usually stroll in without a line, a state of affairs worth keeping quiet about.

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Nonette is a bánh mì takeaway counter on Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, in a country where school lunch comes in four courses and a sandwich eaten standing up feels slightly rebellious. The house special stacks housemade charcuterie with pickles and good French butter, and the fried eggplant with chili and garlic is the vegetarian order that makes carnivores quietly reconsider. Cheap, fast, and eaten on the sidewalk.

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A sandwich shop in Chinatown that stays open until 1:30 a.m. on weekends, which tells you most of what you need to know. The team behind it includes a Howlin' Ray's veteran, so the menu earns its confidence: a spicy Italian loaded with 'nduja and stracciatella crema sits next to a peanut butter and jelly, and nobody seems bothered by the range. A double hot dog is also available, for those keeping score at home.

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A sandwich counter tucked inside a Highland Park liquor store, run by a guy who left television writing and producing to make Reubens, which sounds like a premise for a sitcom he'd have rejected. The pastrami comes piled under melted Comte, sauerkraut, and house Russian on griddled seeded rye, with a Gruyere crisp. You order at the register, then claim one of the yellow tables on the sidewalk, ideally while the weather behaves.

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An Italian-leaning specialty food shop that doubles as a sandwich counter, with crusty bread packed with combinations like fried zucchini and pesto or prosciutto and coppa. The shelves hold artisanal cheeses, salumi, preserves, and breads for anyone who wants to assemble something impressive at home. Been around forever under different ownership, and the new team moved it into a brighter space without losing the plot.

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Bill's is a counter-service sandwich shop in Lockeland Springs that took over a beloved bakery's space after a stretch as a pop-up, and the menu rotates, so you're ordering on faith. Expect big, sloppy sandwiches, from meatloaf under a coat of sauce to roasted pork on focaccia, plus fried duros sold as Cheddy Ranch Puffs. Nashville Scene named it Best Sandwich Shop in 2024, so bring napkins and no plans for the afternoon.

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Soy Cubano is a small, counter-service sandwich spot in a McKennie Ave strip, built around one thing: the Cuban. It arrives cut into neat triangles, with a thin toasted roll, two kinds of pork, Swiss, pickle, and the yellow mustard doing its job. It's a casual, order-at-the-register, wear-whatever kind of lunch, and it's the kind of place where precision is the whole personality. Nashville Scene named it Best Cuban Sandwich in 2023.

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