| Robin's Sandwiches | |
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| Hours of Operation | [sporadic] |
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| Address | Addison St. and Martin Luther King Way, Berkeley |
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The building that houses Robin's Sandwiches is much like their food: slapped together using odd techniques and materials, functional, and cheap. Their most expensive sandwiches are under $5, and their other sandwiches are under $4.
I suspect they microwave their hot sandwiches rather than toasting them, which makes the bread soggy -- undesirable but tolerable for, say, a reuben sandwich. However, their sandwich meat is pretty good. They offer various standard sandwich accompaniments and condiments -- lettuce, onions, mustard, etc. -- and stuff it in the sandwich much like a Subway's: you end up tasting too much lettuce, and the flavours of the accompaniment and main filling don't blend. You could make tastier sandwiches at home. But also like a Subway's, it's cheap, fast, and filling.
The building has church-like windows (stained glass, semi-circle top panes) and a stone interior. Some of the mortar looks much newer than the rest; there are random metal struts coming out of the ceiling which were probably used as internal support before they put in a lower ceiling in the dining area.
The service is friendly, incredibly swift, and they have a good variety of bottled drinks for such a hole-in-the-wall place (sobe, etc.).