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Dom’s Subs
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Contrary to popular opinion, London, in fact, Britain, does not survive on pints, or popular reality TV, or even passive aggression. No. We survive on sandwiches. £3 meal deals. Molten-hot Breville furnaces. Smushed clingfilm triangles. Paper-wrapped deli handfuls. 11pm sniff ‘n’ test newsagent numbers. Skyscraper-like homemade masterpieces. Cucumber, roast beef, cold schnitzel, crispy onions, egg mayo, hot roast chicken, slabs of cheddar, spag bol, precisely four fish fingers, prawn cocktail crisps, pig, more pig, and then condiments. We won’t even begin to get into condiments. The point is: you name it, and we’ll put it between two slices.
With that in mind, new sandwiches get people excited. People being you, and people being us. So when Lanark Coffee - home to the kimcheese toastie and cause of many drippage t-shirt stains - said they were doing something called Dom’s Subs, we got excited. London has many great sandwiches, but it doesn’t have a monopoly on great deli-style sandwiches. You know the type. They’ve got more colours then your colleague’s Zoom-curated bookshelf, and they need therapy to discover everything that’s going on inside of them. We’re talking layers. We’re talking colours. We’re talking a perfect handful that you’ll dislocate your jaw to get a total bite from. We’re talking Dom’s Subs.
You can barely do a complete 360 inside this tiny Hackney Road spot. The café has become a shelf, a fridge, and a till. Just enough room for one person to enter, and one person and their sub to squeeze out. Ideal for somewhere that’s delivery and collection only. As long as they’ve got enough room to keep baking soft and crusty semolina subs, filling them with everything from mortadella to spicy Thai ground chicken, well, that’s all that matters. That and making sure you’ve got napkins at the ready, because they’re essential with every sandwich below.
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