sandwich bar

English

Noun

sandwich bar (plural sandwich bars)

1. A restaurant or takeaway food shop that primarily sells sandwiches.

   Synonyms: sandwichery, sandwich shop

   • 1852, David Morier Evans, City men and city manners, page 136:

     There is in this, as well as in the other rooms of the same description in the City, a sandwich-bar, so that refreshment, in the shape of tea and coffee, sandwiches, and wines and liquors, is often combined with business pursuits.

   • 1871, D. Morier Evans, “Within and Without”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 738:

     The sandwich bar was the most extensively patronised in the City. The ham, tongue, and beef sandwiches were the best that could be obtained in London, and the stout and pale ale could not be rivalled.

   • 2013, John Haynes, Prater: Leave the Financials to Me, page 1:

     Hundreds of thousands of people were briskly walking in thousands of different directions, all with a common purpose — to visit a cafe or sandwich bar to buy lunch, which they would eat out or whisk back to their desks and devour during the continuation of their work.

2. A self-service area where sandwiches can be prepared.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: sandvitxeria f
• French: sandwicherie (fr) m
• German: Sandwichladen m
• Italian: paninoteca (it) f, panineria f, sandwicheria f
• Macedonian: сендвичарница f (sendvičarnica)
• Portuguese: sanduicheria (pt) f
• Spanish: bocatería f (Spain), bocadillería f (Spain), sandwichería f