Amazing New Places to Get Seriously Good Sandwiches

by Andrea Damewood

I’m going to start with some settled case law: A hot dog is not a sandwich. Disagree? Tough. Take it up with the internet’s own Judge John Hodgman. I’m just gonna say it: A hot dog is clearly not meant to be cut in half and served with a cup of soup.

So while the new OP Wurst on Division is very good (shout out!), it is not going to make this shortlist of amazing new places to get some seriously great sandwiches. Portland has surfed a never-ending wave of fresh-baked bread and original ingredients since Bunk brought its Cubano into our lives some 10 years ago—with many glorious contributions since. Here’s the newest and best stuff between sliced bread:

While I hate that the name of this restaurant makes me think of boobs, I will say that Stacked is definitely the tits. With insanely inventive sammies on Pearl Bakery bread, like an open-faced bison tartare ($9/$18) and a deeply decadent braised oxtail French dip ($13) served warm with oodles of caramelized onion and mushrooms, Stacked is headed into what seems to be the final sandwich frontier. I’m headed back soon for the Nutella open-faced sandwich with banana and toasted marshmallow ($6/$12) and another round of the made-to- order lemon madeleines ($7), a pile of citrus in its most sugary and elemental form. 1643 SE 3rd, Mon-Sat 11 am-8 pm