Are the Christmas sandwiches the best bit of the festive season? Probably. It’s that time of year when eating sarnie after sarnie for lunch is totally acceptable and here are the best of the best to get in your gob.
Christmas Breakfast Sandwich | Snackbar
Freddie Janssen has put a festive spin on the Monte Cristo sarnie for Snackbar’s Christmas special and boy is it a good’un. Spence Bakery brioche is filled with Neal’s Yard Ogleshield, black treacle-glazed gammon, cranberry sauce & honey mustard mayo, then it’s dipped in egg batter and fried, and then it’s dusted with icing sugar. DROOL.
20 Dalston Ln, London E8 3AZ
snackbarlondon.com
The Vegan Stuffing Sandwich | PAUL
This year’s PAUL’s best Christmas sarnie is vegan and it’s all about the stuffing. It’s got sweet potato & chestnut stuffing, vegan pâté, grilled carrots, salad and cranberry sauce stuffed inside a sage, onion & cranberry baguette. You can get this in-store or have it delivered via Uber Eats or Deliveroo.
Various locations
paul-uk.com
Christmas Lunch | Pret a Manger
Pret always turns out a reliable Christmas sandwich. The ratio of fillings to bread is on point, so it doesn’t fall apart when you wrap your chops around it; the port & orange cranberry sauce isn’t overly sweet; and it has crispy onions, which everyone knows totally makes the sarnie. Plus 50p from every sarnie goes to The Pret Foundation, which helps tackle homelessness. Pret has also got some new hot festive items this year – we’re liking the sound Turkey & Trimmings Toastie and Christmas Stuffing Mac & Cheese – and the Pigs in Blankets Hot Roll is making a return too.
Various locations
pret.co.uk
Christmas Sandwich | Eggslut
Egg-cellent news for all you eggheads because Eggslut have a brand new festive spesh for 2021. Their take on the Christmas sarnie includes a turkey & sage burger patty, Christmas spiced butter, cranberry sauce, rocket salad and a Clarence Court Burford Brown fried egg stuffed inside in a Bread Ahead Brioche roll.
Shoreditch, Fitzrovia & Portobello
eggslut.uk
Christmas Sandwich | The Dusty Knuckle
The Dusty Knuckle always do epic sarnies and their Christmas options are no different. There’s a meaty version stuffed with porchetta, quince aioli & watercress, and a vegan one with cranberry sauce, parsnip puree, stuffing balls & charred, lemon-dressed sprout tops. We’ll take both.
Dalston & Haringey
thedustyknuckle.com
Pigs in Blankets Sandwich | Marks & Spencer
If you think the best bits of the Christmas dinner are the sides, especially the pigs in blankets, then this is the festive sarnie for you. It’s got outdoor-bred pork sausages, bacon, gravy-style mayo, caramelised onions and a sage, port & red onion chutney stuffed between malted brown bread, it’s porky heaven. And M&S donates 5% of every sale from their Christmas Food on the Move range, including their vegan No Beef Welly Roll, Naughty & Spice Turkey Roll and Ultimate Turkey Feast, to Shelter and Together For Short Lives.
Various locations
marksandspencer.com
The Ultimate Christmas Sandwich | The Black Pig
Roast pork sarnies may be their specialty but this year The Black Pig are getting in the festive spirit and pimping their sandwiches to high heaven by combining slow roast pork, bread sauce, sauteed leeks, spiced red cabbage, apple & cranberry slaw, gravy mayo and crispy onion, sage & toasted pecan crumble and slapping it inside a toasted ciabatta. It’s a Christmas miracle.
The Black Pig, Borough Market Kitchen, Winchester Walk, London SE1
theblackpiglondon.co.uk
Henry’s Xmas Sando | Peckham Cellars
Peckham Cellars’ head chef Henry Freestone has gone XXL for Christmas with this mega sando. It’s got turkey schnitzel, whipped brie, sausage stuffing, cranberry & orange chutney, bacon jam, and mayo, plus gravy for dipping/soaking, because what’s a Christmas dinner without gravy?
Available from 1st December 2021
125 Queen’s Road, London SE15 2ND
peckhamcellars.co.uk
