The Sandwich Shop

The Sandwich Shop is a weekday lunch fixture on Wellington Street, a short walk from Burton-upon-Trent's town centre. It's a no-frills counter operation built around made-to-order sandwiches, paninis, baguettes and jacket potatoes, with a small range of breakfast rolls in the morning trade.

Reviewers consistently single out the value and the size of the fillings — a chunky bacon-and-egg roll, generous tuna or cheese-and-coleslaw baguettes, hot pork-and-stuffing on a cob — at prices that undercut the chain coffee shops on the High Street. The shop also runs a corporate buffet service, which means most mornings the kitchen is putting together platters for local offices alongside the walk-in counter.

It's firmly a weekday business: open from breakfast through to mid-afternoon, closed Saturdays and Sundays. That makes it more a workman's and office-worker's lunch stop than a weekend takeaway. Strong local reviews — typically scoring well above the 4.5 mark on Google and Restaurant Guru — and a Companies House record under The Sandwich Shop Ltd dating from 2019. A useful alternative to the chain bakeries for anyone working in the Wellington Street and Anglesey Street end of central Burton.