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It's that time again - when the sandwich shops and supermarkets are packed with Christmas sandwiches. it's early days in the season and we'll keep updating this guide with more of the best Christmas sandwiches London has to offer in the run-up to the big day.
Sandwich shops, restaurants and bakeries
Sons + Daughters
A returning special is the Christmas S+Dwich featuring roasted Yorkshire turkey, bacon and cranberry XO sauce, bread sauce mayo, Marsala gravy, pickled red cabbage and watercress. As they explain: "Tastes like the Christmas dinner should taste, minus the uncomfortable family chats, hangovers and endless replays of ‘Last Christmas’."
The Allotment Kitchen
For a super locavore festive offering, the restaurant at Stepney City Farm is the place to go. Their Christmas sandwich this year features slow roasted pork, turkey, chestnut and mushroom stuffing balls, cranberry sauce and lemony brussel sprout mayo. Oh, and you can add bacon to it too if you want to go all-in. There's also a veggie version which swaps out deep fried Gubbeen instead of the meat.
Photo: @scphilpott_
Fink's
With not one but four festive sarnie offerings, North London cafe Fink's is going all out this season. On sale now you'll have to choose between the vegan option of Miso sesame aubergine tahini pomegranate, a Christmas cheese board offering made with wookey hole cheddar and plum chutney or two meaty delights of Honey glazed ham with parsnip crisp and piccalili or Xmas turkey with all the fixings.
Dom's Subs
Dom's Subs have all manner of treats on offer for the festive season, but the big hitter is their Santas Little Smoker which is smoked turkey on chicken mayonnaise with smoked San Simon cheese, pork stuffing, cranberry hot honey, shred and tomatoes. If it's a plant-based offering you're after go for Jeru The Damaja which is roast jerusalem artichokes on caramelised onion and arbol salsa with pickled apple, sesame and lime-dressed kale, topped with crispy chilli kale.
Rogue Sarnies
There are multiple takes on the Christmas sandwich available at Rogue Sarnies in Hackney. The Crimbo Roast Pork features house porchetta drenched in gravy, pigs in blankets, roasted veggies, grilled sprout tops, Camembert cauli cheese and caramelised apple sauce. There's also a turkey version of that and the veggie option features a compelling mix of garlic and herb roasted oyster mushroom, veggie gravy, cauliflower cheese, roast carrots, parsnips & onions, sprout tops with confit shallot and cranberry sauce.
Cubitt House
This tower of festive goodness is the Cubitt House Christmas special and will be available across their pubs for the season. In a grilled brioche bun you'll find grilled Norfolk bronze turkey, pork sage & chestnut stuffing, cranberry ketchup and aioli along with grilled smoked bacon, sprout tops, sourdough bread sauce and turkey gravy. Oh and there's also extra gravy for dipping.
New York Bar at The Rubens
The New York Bar is another place that's entering the Christmas sandwich game for the first time this year. Much more of a high-end affair than some, this features roast Norfolk turkey, pork & apple stuffing and truffle Baron Bigod and is served with fries and cranberry mayonnaise (£23.50). If you like having a cocktail with your Christmas sandwich, put this one on the list.
Miznon
Soho and Notting Hill, from 9 November 2023
While not technically a sandwich, we're thinking this one is close enough to make the grade. Miznon's Festive Pita is inspired by a salmon blini and is filled with soft potatoes, sour cream, scallions, olive oil and a topping of salmon roe. They're serving this up with a glass of Moet et Chandon Imperial Brut Champagne
The Black Pig
Borough Market, from 20 November 2023
The Black Pig's Christmas sandwich is always worth the wait. It's slow-roasted pork, smoked turkey, clove and cinnamon braised red cabbage, topped with toasted pecan, sage and crispy shallot crumble, cranberry sauce and confit leek mayonnaise, all in toasted ciabatta. And to finish things off, there's a roast chicken gravy pot for dunking.
Chains
KEU Deli
For a Vietnamese take on the festive season sarnie Keu's sees them filling one of their classic baguettes with roast chicken marinated in five spices together with liver pate, mayo, pickles, herbs and and a port fermented Cranberry sauce.
Yolk
Fast food mini-chain Yolk have launched their first-ever Christmas sandwich this year. It's stacked with smoked & pulled turkey, roasted cauliflower cheese, chestnut stuffing crumb, mulled cranberry sauce and rocket. You can make this one veggie by swapping out the turkey for mushrooms (£12).
Pret
The Christmas Lunch sandwiches and baguette are back on the menu at Pret, featuring turkey, port and orange cranberry sauce, herby pork stuffing, spinach leaves, mayonnaise, and crispy onions. They're making a particularly big deal about the crispy onions this year, going so far as to sell little tins of them that you can take away and add to your own sandwiches. The brie and cranberry baguette is back too and new to the menu this year is a seafood addition - the salmon, crayfish & lemon mayo rye roll.
Paul
This main Paul Christmas sandwich is back, a festive take on a Club Sandwich, with turkey, stuffing, bacon, cranberry sauce and spinach in a fresh Paul sage, onion & cranberry baguette. There's also a vegetarian version with camembert, cranberry, honey, walnuts and batavia lettuce in a sesame baguette.
Starbucks
The Eggnogg Latte is, of course, returning to Starbucks (as well as a new Hazelnut Crunch Hot Chocolate) along with some new Christmas sandwiches. New to the menu this year is the Holiday Ham Sub Roll, filled with honey roast ham, Cheddar cheese, cranberry chutney, a honey mustard slaw and spinach. As well as that, they also have the returning Pigs Under Blanket Roll, the Turkey & Chicken Sandwich, the Brie and Cran-merry Focaccia and the Festive Feast Panini.
Benugo
This year Benugo's Christmas range has four festive sandwiches that include the Brie, Sticky Fig & Bacon, with creamy brie, crispy bacon, fig chutney & spinach on sourdough ciabatta (it's also available without the bacon too). Or if you're after something more traditional, there's the Turkey, Bacon & Stuffing sandwich, with sliced turkey, crispy bacon, pork & sage stuffing, cranberry sauce, horseradish mayo, and spinach.
Supermarkets
Marks & Spencer
This year's new additions to the Marks and Spencer range, see them really letting loose on the puns. This is led by the Jingle Brie-LT (pictured), which is a brioche bun with crispy bacon, brie, cos lettuce, caramelised onion mayo and tomato and cranberry chutney. In addition to that, there's the new Ho-Ho-Pest-Ho (including roasted quash and rocket pesto) and the Naughty And Spice Wrap which mixes piri piri chicken with chorizo-style stuffing and hot cranberry sauce. Don't worry, the Turkey Feast will be back too.
Aldi
Aldi's new sandwiches this year include the Seafood Cocktail Bloomer which combines king prawns, surimi, and cold-water prawns in a Marie Rose cocktail sauce. For something a little more clearly Christmassy, there's the Pigs Under Cheesy Blankets Sub Roll which is adding brie to the mix (pictured) and they'll have their Turkey Feast sandwich (and the vegan alternative) as well.
Also from supermarkets:
Tesco - New to the range this year include two in the Tesco Finest range, the spiced duck & pomegranate chutney wrap and the new pigs under blanket sandwich.
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