Sandwich watch

It doesn't get much better than this, the ones from Frank's Deli.

Chip Month

We’ve crowned Sydney’s best steak frites sandwich, plus eight more chip sangas to try

It might be hard to smoosh the ingredients together so you can pick it up, but its superb chips-to-meat-and-sauce ratio makes our number one unmissable.

Erina Starkey, Isabel Cant and Sarah Norris

Tori Bicknell of Glory Us cafe in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North and its signature salad sandwich.

How to

You’ve been layering the salad in your sandwich wrong all along. Not anymore

Experts share the crucial construction considerations and seasoning secrets that separate a great salad sandwich from a sad, soggy mess.

Dani Valent

Afishonado’s lobster roll and prawn roll.

Seafood

The lobster roll is great, but the prawn roll is magnificent at this new seafood shop

The owner supplies fish to top restaurants like Margaret and is now making fancy sandwiches that tap into nostalgia and use the Rolls-Royce of buns.

Sarah Norris

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

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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

Hot honey adds a finishing touch to the babi guling toastie at Ada’s Affair Glebe.

Sandwich shop

In a city of endless sandwiches, this spicy, sticky toastie stands out

Gloriously textural, bright with flavours and layered with a fragrant blend of fried coconut, garlic and smoky meat, it’s spicing up Sydney’s sanga scene.

Bianca Hrovat

Four reasons to visit the new Kosta’s Takeaway.

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These four hot, soft and self-assured sandwiches make the new Kosta’s a must-visit

Get bespoke hoagies filled with juicy adobo pork, mustardy roast chicken, amazing Brussels sprouts and crunchy fish fingers.

Good Food

The lox and pastrami bagels at Small Talk, Dulwich Hill.

Essential cafes and bakeries

Sydney’s 10 essential sandwich shops (plus a pastrami bagel that’s ‘actual perfection’)

We’re living through the golden age of bread creations. Here are our favourites.

Good Food Guide reviewers

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Cubanos and porchetta: Sydney’s new hot-meat sandwich spot is glorious (and messy)

Hunks of meat are cooked on French spits and paired with gravy, stuffing and salsa verde. Hot sangers like these are rarely seen in Sydney, especially the CBD.

Good Food

There’s no shortage of wraps in Sydney (even Woolies has a chicken caesar wrap), but no one is making one quite like Cross Section.

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This hole-in-a-wall shop sells 200 mammoth chicken caesar wraps daily

The first wrap to be inducted into Sandwich Watch, this rock star of a sanger delivers a satisfying crunch, proving size does matter.

Howard Chen

Loulou’s baguette has triangles of sliced gruyère on both sides of the roll, a sensible thickness of thinly sliced ham and lots of house-made butter.

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Butter is the essential third ingredient in this simple yet decisive baguette

This chewy roll might only have ham, slices of nutty gruyere and a generous smear of cultured butter, but those ingredients collide into something magical.

Sarah Norris