King's Sandwich Bar on Chalton Street has become my favourite sandwich spot when I have been too lazy to make some of my own. It's a justly popular place with seating for about 20-25 inside and 10 seats outside and it offers curries and other hot dishes as well as every kind of hot and cold sandwich. The family who run it would be a good role model for any restaurateur because they're really friendly, produce tasty food, deliver it quickly, price it fairly, prize the consistency of their product, and enjoy chatting to their customers.
The accompanying picture should reveal the other reason that I like their sandwiches so much: they are huge! For the same price as a wilted bed of rocket with a herbed pepper couscous on coriander and lemongrass focaccia from AN supermarket, King's will offer you a jam-packed bap full of cheese, salad and coleslaw. Eating these monsters makes up for the disappointment of going into a deli in New York and ordering a cheese sandwich, expecting just the level of multi-storey layering seen in the photo, and enduring the deflation of getting a very moderate cheese sandwich, whilst all around me carnivores were tucking into mile-high sandwiches of pastrami and salt beef. Thank you King's for showing that Britain is the orginal and best home of sandwichus giganticus.
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