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Sandwiches

The Wooden Spoon.

First look: Sooshi Mango’s late-night panini bar ‘had to be’ on Lygon Street

Three doors down from the comedy trio’s restaurant, their follow-up, Sangaweech, has Big Nonna Energy. Expect orange Laminex, sandwiches with cheeky names, and tiramisu.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Owners Dom Gattermayr and Rose Richards outside Florian To-Go.

Queue-magnet cafe Florian’s new spot gives you more of the food you love, and then some

The Carlton North favourite adds a takeaway outlet and providore that will act as a pressure valve, feeding people from breakfast through to dinner.

  • Claire Adey
Zucchini and potato tikki buns will convert even committed carnivores.

You’ll never believe summer’s blandest vegetable could taste this good

From zucchini and potato tikki buns to smoky pork toasties, grab these hefty flavour-packed sangas with both hands.

  • Rosheen Kaul
Riverside Deli first opened on Flinders Street in the early 1990s.

As nostalgia dominates food, why is the Aussie lunch bar dying out?

Once a staple, the cafe-meets-lunch bar loved by tradies is fading fast, while pubs and milk bars are riding a wave of nostalgia. Can the old-school Aussie cafe be revived?

  • Quincy Malesovas
Curried egg salad rolls.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s curried egg salad rolls

I love a curried egg sandwich, but add fruit chutney and crunchy lettuce and put them in a toasted bun and you have a whole new experience.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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The trio in costume with some of the panini they’re trialling.

Popular Johnny, Vince and Sam crew are opening a nonna-style sandwich shop in Lygon Street

Their restaurant always has lines stretching down Lygon Street. Soon, there’ll be a grab-and-go spot nearby that feels like walking into nonna’s kitchen.

  • Donna Demaio
Inside pocket-sized provedore, cafe and bottle shop Project 49.

Project 49

Cafe, providore and wine shop stocking the region’s finest libations.

Outside the Footscray sandwich shop, located in Trocadero Arcade.

Say Cheese

For Filipino and El Salvadorian-inspired sangers in Trocadero Arcade.

  • Dani Valent
Cochinita pibil chilaquiles torta.

Cumbe

Specialising in the Mexico City street-food sandwich known as torta de chilaquiles.

You haven’t lived until you’ve eaten Tommy Panini’s spicy vodka chicken cotoletta panuozzo.

You haven’t lived until you’ve eaten this spicy vodka chicken cotoletta panuozzo

Made on wood-fired pizza dough, this glorious sandwich is saucy and with a chicken schnitzel that’s topped with blow-torched cheese that melts over the chook like a bad-fitting suit.

  • Sarah Norris