Welcome back to Good Taste, your menu for eating well in the Bay Area. Sandwiches are a luxury in San Francisco, where the average price is now pushing $15. Finding one for $10 or less is understandably a lot harder than it was just a few years ago. Today, we survey the semi-lonely landscape for $10 and under sandwiches in San Francisco to offer five suggestions.
Tomato and mozzarella pretzel sandwich at Hahdough ($8.50)
I usually think of the Lower Haight’s Hahdough for cakes and beignet-esque Berliner donuts, but I’ve become newly obsessed with the German bakery’s tomato, mozzarella, pesto, and arugula sandwich on a fresh baked pretzel roll, which runs $8.50. It’s fairly petite, but every bite is a hit.
Pão de queijo sandwiches at Cafe de Casa ($6.25-8.75)
Cafe de Casa is a sleeper hit for Brazilian comfort food, and their breakfast sandwich menu is not to be ignored. I recently loved trying their bacon, egg and avocado on fluffy, cheesy pão de queijo bread, which costs $8.25. Cafe de Casa has three locations in San Francisco and one in South San Francisco.
Breakfast sandwich at Devil’s Teeth ($10)
No longer just a weekend special, the hearty biscuit-based breakfast sandwich with two scrambled eggs, bacon and cheddar at Devil’s Teeth in the Sunset and Richmond is priced at $10 before tax. They also offer a grilled cheese sandwich for $7.50.
Veggie sandwiches at Morty’s Delicatessen ($9.50-$10)
Tenderloin deli Morty’s has passed the $10 mark for sandwiches with meat, but their vegetarian options still run between $9.50-10. They’re fairly big for that price, too; I started my Shroomin’ (portabella, pesto, spinach, tomato and mozzarella slices) yesterday and have half left over for today.
Veggie banh mi at Que Huong Vietnamese Deli ($7.50)
Though you can still get banh mi sandwiches for $5 at Saigon Sandwich in the Tenderloin, they’re over $10 at a lot of places in San Francisco. I’ve been eating the veggie banh mi ($7.50) at Que Huong Vietnamese Deli in the Sunset since it was just over $4, and it’s still a good value, with great bread. There’s also a dangerous dessert case that’s hard to resist, but that’ll put you over the $10 mark.
There are a few more $10 and under sandwiches that I hope to try soon, including the $5 poor boy at the grocery store Falletti Foods that was recently profiled by Eater SF. Also intriguing is the Mission’s new Fox and Lion Bread, which as SF Standard reported, is making it a goal to keep some sandwiches at this price point.
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