There are plenty of amazing sandwiches to hunt down and devour across the Las Vegas Valley at all different types of restaurants (especially if you consider a cheeseburger a sandwich, but let’s not get into that today). But there aren’t enough straight-up sandwich shops, where the beloved lunch dish is front-and-center all the time.
It somehow took me almost six years to find Woods Family Sandwiches, hidden in an industrial park just south of Henderson’s Valley Automall. Once I walked in and saw the Ms. Pac-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinets in the corner, I knew this was the place—exactly the kind of unassuming eatery I’d like to see in every neighborhood.
Daelyn Woods and her family run WFS and proudly use Boar’s Head products to build seemingly simple subs ($8-$11) on crusty, chewy rolls. The most popular choice is pastrami, and you can stick to a hot pastrami sub with three-pepper cheese, pickles, pepperoncini, red onion and mustard; the #2 with Thousand Island, melted Swiss and coleslaw; or get wild with the Bomber. Before my first bite, I would have shouted blasphemy at the combination of hot pastrami and cool, fluffy, homemade egg salad. But somehow the Bomber, also topped with pickles and pepperoncini to cut through the creamy and salty layers, makes total sense.
WFS also uses London broil with melted provolone for a solid French dip, and serves plenty of cold subs ($7.50-$10.50), including homemade tuna salad, Buffalo-spiced chicken with fried onions and blue cheese dressing, and a veggie sandwich with cream cheese, cucumber, sprouts, avocado and tomato. Salads, wraps (those definitely aren’t sandwiches, right?) and breakfast options such as ham or bacon on a toasty bagel with egg and cheese ($4.40) round out the menu, and catering is obviously a big deal here, too.
Even if this isn’t your neighborhood, it’s a cozy lunch worth the trip.
WOODS FAMILY SANDWICHES 931 American Pacific Drive #106, 702-826-2230, wfsandwiches.com. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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