Earls Sandwiches

After a disappointing jaunt through Covent Garden itself, which included being acosted by a charity fundraiser, I headed north to a little sandwich bar named Earls that our graphic designer swears by. It's on the corner of Endell Street and Shelton Street (map), right next to the Neal Street area.

Earls is primarily a sandwich bar, but offers a few salads too. My eyes were drawn to their specials board — who can resist choosing from it when the options might be gone next time! My choice was crispy chorizo, chicken, spinach, in a baguette with salad. This cost me £3.20, a reasonable price compared to many sandwich bars in the area. The other options that I considered were the beef melt (roast beef, onion, cheese and horseradish sauce, served on ciabatta and toasted) and the toasted club sandwich (a triple-decker turkey, crispy bacon, cheese and salad sandwich, made on toasted bread).

I was very happy with my chosen baguette, and plan to go back sometime to try out the other two sandwiches above. There are two things I feel I should comment on however. Firstly, the sandwich came wrapped in cellophane (inside the expected paper bag) — this just proved annoying and messy to get off before eating. Secondly, the queues are not as short as they seem! Although the queue for the till is only 2-3 people at most usually, once you order and pay, you have to wait several minutes while they work through the backlog of orders. A small price to pay for being popular I suppose, but possibly not the best option if you're an impatient sort.