This is the third feature “Charlottesville Deathmatch” where we put two or more similar businesses, places, restaurants or things into a sealed cage of pain, suffering and death. Ultimately only one contestant lives and it’s up to you to figure out who that is.
We have a bunch of sandwich places in this town, just waiting to to be forced together, into a heated mess of aioli, cold cuts and toaster ovens. It’s a wide open battle which includes contestants of all builds and skills. We have everything from bagels to hoagies and just plain old white bread. Now it’s your turn to decide the best sandwich place…
What's your favorite Charlottesville sandwich place?
[pic from Toronja Azul]
Tagged as: best, Charlottesville, charlottesville deathmatch, eat, fight, Food, sandwich
it is impossible to choose those are all great places and it depends on my mood.
Ooh, I’m with Jennifer on this one. Impossible - and each is too unique. Still: Rev Soup makes a great grilled cheese; Baggby’s the Albuquerque Turkey…
@1 and 2. Stop being so rational!
The best value sandwiches are at Mona Lisa Pasta. The DaVinci rules and is a bargain at $4.99.
The best sandwiches in this city are at The Carving Board, no question.
/loves sandwiches
Oh Carving Board, how I miss your crab melt. Ohhhhhh!
That crab melt is like pure bliss sandwiched between 2 pieces of sourdough.
The Exxon off of Avon St Extended, across from the Food Lion — goooood sandwiches. But expensive.
I’m crying a little tear right now just thinking about it. CRAB MELT I love you! I wish I didn’t work on the polar opposite of town away from your melty goodness. Best sandwich in town.
Is no one going to comment on the sandwich on the picture? I have mixed feelings, but it’s nothing a little spicy mustard couldn’t fix.
it looks like those birds that you eat beak, bones, feet and all, on survivor.
/hates sandwiches.
yes, i’ll take the rat sandwich please. with extra fur!
Was it a rat I saw?
/a palindrome for parlie
I just popped in to say, don’t even think about eating puppies. Jerks.
Oh, I thought it was a hot dog. Sorry.
that’s what she said?
yep.
I went to Beer Run yesterday for the first time and man I love that joint. The NEW NEW NEW Deli and reopened and is awesome! But I really love Feast the best.
ahahaha I am in line RIGHT NOW at the Carving Board about to order the crab melt and pear and gorgonzola salad….ahaha Shen… u taunted me with Champers last night and today I get my revenge. Got to go…Candice is about to take my order..
I did not choose Rev Soup, because I think their soup is better than their sandwiches (and plus, they lose points for being so slow on making sandwiches!).
Beer Run is tasty, and the addition of beer doesn’t hurt either, but I have to agree with @1’s comment: all of these places can be good.
But for what it’s worth, Bel Air, Rev Soup, and Beer Run dominate the category.
i don’t understand how anyone likes bellair. the sandwiches are tiny and overpriced. we stopped on our way to the richmond airport to get something for our flight to hawaii and almost starved to death before our layover.
Beer Run has beer AND Josh…big advantage…. oh sorry.. gotta go as my juicy crab melty seems to be ready… and a deal at $5.95… om nom nom nom
Floozy, what is the special today?
@18: Enjoy the crab melt you cold hearted bitch. I’m eating homemade peach pound cake with peach schnapps icing. Mmmm. And I’m about to jump in the car to fetch a case of Spicy Rivanna Red from Michie Tavern for the fam.
Is Josh the very young guy that’s pants are about to fall off?
Is Thurston that very old guy who yells at all the kids for playing in his yard?
I just went to Padow’s and had 78 which is corned beef, smoked turkey, swiss, thousand island dressing and cole slaw on rye bread. I don’t like swiss cheese and they get all weird when you make substitutions at this joint. Also, go early as the people that work there ain’t exactly in a hurry and they get very busy around 12… I’d like to move them all to New York for a month to teach them to move a little faster!
Echo I’m 37 and love kids!
The Carving Board is delicious!
I always join the mother there for lunch!
I voted for BelAir — what do you mean the sandwiches are small… I can only finish one half at a time?
But in the area, the true hands-down winner is out at the Greenwood Market.
How many of you have been to The Carving Board and voted for somewhere else? If there is a better sandwich than that out there, I need to know about it.
what about the made-to-order sandwiches at Foods of All Nations? those are excellent. skip the pre-made ones in the cold case though.
*retch*
Warning, warning: Hey J.Tobias.Beard, we need your help @27!
echo…. there was beef and rice soup special and the sandwich special was roast beef and swiss. I think I may have forgotten to mention earlier that I was going for the crab melt. Did I mention that? Oh and because it goes soggy really fast I ate it as I was driving along Rio Road and dribbled their ’special sauce’ all down my sweater.
My face looked like a money shot special….
Oh and Thurston Josh’s pants are falling down because I have telekinetic powers.
Thanks. If you’re ever there when they have the pork tenderloin sandwich, get it. DELICIOUS!
The picture really disturbed me, for some reason.
@35: You thinkin’ it should have been in a pita too? I hear ya.
@31
Agreed. The Grilled Chicken Club at FOAN is awesome and usually way more than I can eat in one sitting.
@36, Then at least it wouldn’t fall out the sides.
Greenwood fresh mozz, no meat please! by far best in town (close to town)
yum…
Grabbed the “Whitehall” at Bellair. Their sandwiches don’t come with chips or pickle. It had roasted red peppers and brie (yum!) and sprouts and honey mustard (huh?) on a whole grain baguette. Meh. It’s no crab melt from Carving Board.
I think the no-meat sandwich is a tough one, Shen, you’re right. I added Bel Air to the list, and love the Farmington and the Ednam, personally. I can’t really speak to the veggie side of things, as even though I adopt animals, I am pro-bacon.
I also think Take it Away does a bang-up job and should be added. I like the roast beef with edam and house dressing.
Padow’s has a pretty tasty veggie sandwich. It looks like a rainbow inside- purple cabbage, red, green, and yellow peppers, and havarti. Mmmm.
that picture is just plain wrong.
/everyone knows puppy tartare should be served on whole wheat
@41 beer run’s apple/cheese/spinach is like a salad but with bread–perfect!
@32 i love bc 1) funny 2) mentions the love of my life
@34 i want.
@44: You hate sandwiches.
@44 the beer run bread is really bad
@45 but i lik MEAT.
@46 no it isnt.
OMFG Thor I so agree…. I thought I was the only one. You could choke a camel on a slice of that stuff. However I did have a slice of chocolate Guinness cake there a while back and it made up for the big bread.
@45 but i lik MEAT.
I can’t decide if you left out a “c” or an “e”
Shame parlie isn’t around … he runs the anagram competitions around here, and then awards BOGUS internetz to people that add in and take out letters willynilly…yes I’m talking about you UULL.
I knew I had seen the sandwich in that picture before. They serve it at Macado’s in Blacksburg. It’s named the “Michael Vick,” but when ordering it, people usually just ask for a “#7.”
@50: Get off my internets!
Just relieved to see Panera isn’t on the list…
I agree- too hard to name one place…they all depend upon mood/appetite.
I’m talking to parlie about this.
@48 well it’s good drenched in balsamic drizzle. haven’t tried the cake yet, surprisingly.
Panera …ugggggggghh you could fix a hole in your boot with one of their sandwiches.
if i had a boot… :’(
@ 56 Spot on…I’ve re-soled a few pairs of boots w/ their hard as rock breads.
also glad that Jimmy John’s isn’t on the list - don’t know why people rave about that Subway knockoff…
I prefer my dogs on a bun.
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Where is the korean deli in c-ville… oh after seeing the top photo I just assumed there must be one
I have never understood why someone would order something out when you could make a much better product at home. i almost never order sandwiches in restaurants. However, have to say that Tubby’s has provided post-delivery steak and cheese with onions subs immediately after the birth of all three of my children, courtesy of my husband. If I do, on the extremely rare occasion, order a sandwich, it had better be a reuben, but my heart is broken constantly when I do. I make ‘em better at home. Puppy on a bun photo very entertaining, though!
I hear Josh from Beer Run is a “retired” adult film star but can I not prove it.
I believe his name was Mister Phister but again it may just be gossip.
@63: Can you not?
I pretty much agree with the way the voting is shaking out. Depending on my level of sobriety, LittleJohn’s and Rev Soup are #1 and #2 in my book.
Also dont understand the vitriol for Beer Run bread. It tastes like decent quality homemade bread.
I don’t think Crabs are technically vegetarian. Melted or not. I do believe they aren’t of the vegetable family. I think the crab from The Incredible Mr. Limpet would be upset if compared w/ a carrot. The other variety isn’t as appetizing. But I think they went the way of qualudes and Camaros. And 8 tracks. Those were good times when all we had to worry about were hot crabs and whether that little dude would see the plane.
These crabs are the best……
I need to go to Beer Run now. I’m intrigued.
Crab melts sound divine. I haven’t partaken of one yet. Floozy, shen, am I really missing out THAT much?
::formulates how to get to Carving Board tomorrow::
Intrigued by the thought of Josh’s pants falling down or the big claggy bread?
More focused on the pants. Forget their apparently mediocre bread! Possible porn star eyef**king is more my style. If I want bread I’ll go to Rev Soup and eat my feelings!
wow- i can’t wait to tell josh about the PR.
sweet.
and i ain’t saying if that’s how we met or not;).
Scandal @72! You’d better dish out. And I didn’t mean the stuffing.
B, double E, double R, U, N
Beer Run!
I’m in there 2-4 times a week and, sorry ladies, he’s very taken!
@74 spoilsport.
In, as in ‘in there’ or as in ‘in there’?
Little John’s is def the best sandwiches in town, it’s just that people (understandably so) try to avoid the Corner as much as possible, I feel. The Nuclear is the best sandwich I’ve ever had and I don’t even like sandwiches that much. Although, I do really like Beer Run’s food, on the whole. And for those who have never eaten at Pacino’s, try it if you like good, authentic sandwiches. The Jersey Boy is the shit.
@51….Macados….half price Hindy’s on Monday nights (ie: more money for your bar tab,) tho I tended to be more of a Custer’s Last Stand kind of chick.
@74, thanks I now have the Todd Snider song going through my head…”all you need is a ten and a fiver, a car and a key and a sober driver B, double E, double R, U, N beer run….”
I disagree that Littlejohn’s is anything better than a place for UVA kids to go when they are tanked up like the captain of the Exxon Valdez. But, opinions are like assholes we all got one.
Then what is your favorite?
your mom makes a good sandwich, but if she’s busy go to milano or fabio’s
When I first moved to town and desperately had to pay rent, I answered the ad in the LittleJohn’s window offering $10/hr. That place will eat your soul. The $10/hr could not have been more of a joke, even when I was fast-tracked to manager. After one too many occasions of having to pull one of my employees off of the random crackhead they were beating into the pavement, I decided to call it quits. I don’t intend to smear anyone’s business on the intarwebs, so I’ll not go into detail here… but buy me a drink(s) and ask me about it in person. I imagine that you might be pretty surprised/unhappy about some of the stories behind the scenes there.
But yeah, at 3 o’clock, wastedface on the corner… There’s a Wild Turkey with my name all over it.
@76 - hahaha - he ain’t taken by me, Flooz!
And if I were gay, Josh wouldn’t be my type. I’d probably go for the bear architype. Haha.
@78: You’re making me nostalgic for Spanky’s. The Cal Ripken Jr. was my fave back in the meat-eating days– toasted pita with chicken and broccoli and muenster and sprouts with a side of Ranch dressing to dip it in.
Josh looks like Harry Potter all growed up.
Cal Ripken Jr. was my fave back in the meat-eating days/i>
I didn’t know you liked baseball
damn my inferior html skills- seriously it’s not even funny
@86: Billy Ripken 1989 Fleer baseball card?
Nice Doc, a tip of the bat on that one
@89: I didn’t think anyone would get it… but then I remembered googol.
Fuck face!
My favorite sandwich places are:
1- Feast
2- Tubby’s
3- Martin’s Grill for a cheeseburger
4- Blue Ridge Pig
5- The NEW NEW NEW NEW Deli
6- Padow’s
7- Lord Hardicke’s
8- Zazus
9- Bel Air
10- Riverside
Oh shit, I forgot about Greenwood Market. They are NO 1!
1- Feast
Most overpriced stale little biscuits I have ever seen.
Belmont, the only place to eat biscuits is at someone’s grandmas house, a gas station at 7 a.m or in Mississippi or Alabama. You don’t get biscuits at Feast! Ha!
I called them biscuits to artfully reiterate their diminutive status. Feast sandwiches = four bites for eight bucks.
Um.. hah.
Bicuits = Blue Ridge Country Store on the Mall of Charlottesville / (Gas-free+breakfast : gasoline^that.is)
(Diminutive+worth+it)*sandwich= Rev Soup.
(colfer) + crack pipe= post ^^+WTF
I like you people a lot. Let’s all go to Beer Run and drink the beer SOON>
@95 cracker barrell!!
orchid that’s racist.
Cracker Barrel reached a civil rights agreement with the Justice Department after the government concluded that black diners have faced discrimination in roughly 50 Cracker Barrel restaurants over a five-year period. According to the government, some black customers were segregated, while others were refused service altogether by white waiters. another lawsuit lists assorted and widespread racist acts: segregating black customers in the smoking section even when they don’t smoke, using various subterfuges to deny African-Americans service, serving black customers food taken from the trash.
Chris Rock’s mother sued too,, alleging she & her daughter were the only blacks in the building and ignored for half an hour before anyone served them. Rose claims she asked the manager about the delay and “The only thing he said was we could have a free meal and neither of us wanted to eat.”
/why the f were they in cracker barrel if they didn’t want to eat?
I have never been to Cracker Barrel
there’s one in waynesboro. breakfast all day!
you guys know what’s weird? breakfast in bed. you’re telling me you want to eat toast, and maybe some runny eggs… on your pillow? ok, i guess… but then what do you do after that? do you lay down and take a nap?
no! that was breakfast you just had! so what do you do? and why didn’t you just get the fuck up in the first place and eat breakfast like a normal person, from the dumpster?
i just think it’s weird.
I try and avoid places that have public displays of sausage gravy. I am likely to turn the place into a vomitorium if I have to look at that disgusting lumpy spoodge.
Since this thread is still rocking, perhaps a future death match could be “Battle of the Sandwich” (i.e. what is the best sandwich in town). I don’t eat too many sandwiches, but for my $6.50, it’s Fabio’s Cheesesteak Deluxe/Supreme. I forget the exact name, but it’s $6.50 of delicious.
@106 like fellinis? i don’t do sausage. or gravy.
@107 nooooooooo! please don’t revive the cheesesteak debate! it’s almost as bad as the bodo’s toasting debate.
I liked Cracker Barrel as a kid. But that’s just cause they had lots of toys and candy and that awesome little game with the golf tees. The food’s wretched.
i used to enjoy shoney’s as a kid. now THAT food is wretched.
cracker barrel food is not wretched, the quality is consistent (though it is much more pleasant in nonsmoking states), & the restrooms are always clean (except at the one in florida city, which is to be expected). my brother refused to go to CB on our way south last time & we stopped at a pizza hut in SC & every table in the restaurant was dirty (the rush was over but the waitress couldn’t be bothered to carry stuff back to the kitchen) & there was no toilet paper anywhere. and my brother snorted the breadcrumbs off the breadsticks accidentally; that was pretty gross. pizza was the same as always. which is to say, WAY better than papa john’s. but i’ve learned to drive at mealtimes.
/JARS of fireballs!
orchid, how could you deny the hot bar at Shoney’s??? OMFWTFOMG the grits… and some of that melty cheese on top… ugghhhhh…. food coma…
to restate: i have not been there since i was a child.
and i do not eat grits.
i am not southern.
Love grits. Love Cracker Barrel. Not afraid to admit it.
If it doesn’t serve booze, I don’t go there. But OMg cheese grits are gud.
Wait, who doesn’t serve booze?
All you can eat buffet places
@116 except in vegas!
And they got the booze and the buffet in Atlantic City too as well as Foxwoods in Connecticut! Atlantic City makes Scottsville look like Paris!
OMG, I love love love sausage gravy (especially the home cooked variety), “sos” and grits, especially cheese grits - they go with spinach and broiled salmon at dinner. Am so very southern, y’all.
@ 111…not gonna lie. I do miss the hot bar breakfast at Shoneys. But I was like 8 then so who knows. Best sandwich in town, Take it away. Hands down.
Learning that bit about no booze at buffets, I suddenly realized my father must’ve been a closet alcoholic. That or a very very resourceful man… cause he was always wasted when we ate at Shoney’s.
Baggby’s is the most overrated sandwich place in town. They’re not very good sandwiches, especially for the price.
@122 agree.
I heard they have a veggie cheesesteak…I am intrigued. Does hot eyepatch guy still work there?
@Cracker Barrel
they also got slammed in another lawsuit for discrimination, against hiring guys-who-like-guys (what’s the current euphem. for that? ‘gays’ {too inclusive}, ‘queers’ {as in queer-theory}… i think Shen objected to some of the more colorful ones–a gal-pal of mine was compiling a very funny list, excerpts from which i’ll spare you here. {unless you ask}.
/ where’s STANLEY?: “in the pokey!”
@Post
I worked briefly for Take It Away in Williamsburg (called The Cheese Shop, there)—on hiring, management made us sign a legally binding document swearing never to reveal the secret ingredients of the ’special sauce’ they put on sandwiches.
@125….color me clueless, I have no idea that The Cheeseshop (<3) and Take It Away were related. That’s what I get for avoiding the corner like the plague. Might have to rethink that.
Go Tribe!
@124 hot eyepatch guy occasionally bar tends at the old kiki’s last time I saw him about a month ago.
He’s family owns(ed?) Bagby’s
Sillyputty… his online name here is Captain Jack and he is a jolly good sport. Here’s
proof…
I like to go to Whole Foods for the buffet at lunch but it’s like 10 bucks! I get the heavy items!
You can wander around Sam’s club and get free cheese. Government cheese. And things on sticks. You can talk about the sticks and how long they are. And the thickness of the cheese and whether it matters. A great first date. Dammit I brought porn innuendo back. The Staunton prosecutors are calling. Wrong thread? WTF are the heavy items? Meatballs? I’ll try to stop.
Tofu is heavy. Everything on that bar at whole foods is heavy. The cucumbers are thick and heavy.
Tofu pron!
The New Deli and Grille is where it’s at. Totally revamped inside and the West Coast Wrap is awesome! Plus you get homemade potato chips with your choice of flavors. It just doens’t get any better!
#1 in town is The New Deli and Grill by far. Had the best Cheeseburger there I have ever had in my life…… And the make the best sandwiches ever.
Also have to say that the staff is really great and always have a smile on their faces.
So…. Friendly staff, always clean and great food…. what more could you ask for.
THE NEW DELI IS # 1 but next in line is for sure The Carving Board.
Guys, you need to upgrade your SPAM filter. Try McAfee. I have it and its the best! Once you get McAfee, you’re set for life!
Pita pit its back open on the corner, I really really like that place. I prefer wraps to sandwiches. If you do, too, go in and get one, wiatches.