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Sandwich watch

Sydney's best sandwiches, Da Orazio's porchetta sandwich

When this four-person pizza sandwich lands, it’s met with a primal grunt

It’s that kind of sandwich. The hulking focaccia con porchetta is one of Sydney’s original restaurant sangas and has real gravitas.

  • Sarah Norris
Beef rendang toastie at Greedy Civet

This toastie sounds like it shouldn’t work. But just wait until you try it

The star of the sandwich is the deeply flavoursome rendang – and, of course, that big cheesy pull.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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
Hot beef sandwich.

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