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BEST OF AUSTIN AWARDS

  • 2005: Critics Grilled Peanut Butter & Jelly Money Can Buy
  • 2001: Critics Best Original Sandwich

RESTAURANT POLL AWARDS

  • 2006: Critics Best Al Fresco Dining, East
  • 2004: Critics Sandwich
  • 2002: Critics Sandwich

more: Delis/Sandwich Shops, East

Galloway Sandwich Shop

For Southerners, this is the familiar food that your granny used to cook. Meat with two sides, done right, and it changes every day. Try the roast beef and sweet-potato pie.
1914 E. 12th, 512/482-0757

Rio Rita

Go during the day for sandwiches, empanadas, East Side Pies slices, as well as a full complement of your daily veggies in the Bloody Mary, which is really a salad in a glass. It�s a mild-mannered, daytime coffee shop that evolves into a comfortable bar after dark, offering fabulous drinks in a room filled with furniture worthy of any good thrift store score.
1308 E. Sixth, 512/524-0384

Schmaltz

Have a seat and stay awhile at a yellow picnic table, as the matzoh ball soup here is so transcendent, its consistency so perfect, that your sandwich order will likely be an afterthought. Well, snap back in time to make sure you don't miss the Groucho Marx Mushroom Melt, the Gertrude Stein Goat Cheese, or the Art Spiegelman Falafel Patty Melt.�
913 E. Cesar Chavez, 512/508-8985