I am thinking a good cheese steak shop in a large town could draw a good following quickly.
The only hot sandwiches in London are salt beef sandwiches and steak sandwiches in pubs.
There is a place called Dip and Flip , in Battersea that does burgers but also hot beef, pork or chicken sandwiches with gravy to dip them into. Also a few places ( mainly food trucks), doing cheese steak sandwiches.
Yet to find a really good one in London but here’s hoping.
Although I suppose you could argue a kebab is protein in bread so is a sandwich, but I always think of it as something different.
Unless, of course, we include bacon sarnies and toasties.
But there’s been quite a boom of hot sandwiches in Edinburgh. Including Alby’s and the King of Sandwiches who alights here although also serves up sandwiches in other places in the UK.
Hot pot
Sushi
BLTs for a grab and scarf.
I like lunch. I make a pretty strong breakfast, and dinner out just isn’t as much a treat anymore, so I like to meet my wife for lunch. Dinner I always end up with leftovers, which is a good thing; but I’d rather eat the stuff once and be done.
I think back to how many times we met friends after the bars closed at some greasy spoon (George Webb’s where I come from.) We get loud, the wait staff is into it, and the place is as fun as the bar was. Haven’t done that in a few decades.