Chris' NY Sandwich Co.

We heard about this place last year, but never thought they delivered. With no website and little word of mouth in the office up until this week, we didn't take the five to ten minute walk over the past year either. This week, one of us got a menu from someone in the office. It's their new menu as of January 2011 and on the bottom of the menu it says 'We Deliver' so we decided to give them a shot today.

The menu isn't cheap for lunch. The average price for a sandwich is slightly over nine dollars. There are the typical deli sandwiches, grilled sandwiches, specialty sandwiches, salads, and desserts. None come with any side such as fries. It appears this place doesn't have a deep fryer by the look of the menu. They come with an option of chips instead which seems standard across sandwich delis, but later we found out different. They also cater out lunches with their sandwich platters.

We called the day before to confirm delivery for today and how late we could call in our big order by. The menu stated a delivery charge of 10% for any orders over $50. This was a tedious hassle of thinking about it. Inane delivery charges with percentages like these hold us back from ordering from those places again because of the trivial calculations involved on individual orders. Also, a smaller tip would likely be involved due to the percentage instead of a fixed rate. We had 11 people on the order as the orders today ranged from Tuna to Hawaiian Chicken Salads as they were all sandwiches.

Our sandwiches were wrapped up individually in brown bags with our names written on them. Inside the bag, there were little containers where our sandwiches were compacted to fit in this little box. We thought we would need a second lunch for today. There was one glaring mistake... one of us got the meatloaf sandwich which came plain and we even said over the phone no tomato, lettuce, and cheese. Well, the meatloaf sandwich came with all three of those ingredients.

The menu was quite misleading. Lots of us were expecting and wanted chips with our meals but they didn't come with them... not even a pickle. It also stated 'Fudge Brownies.' However, it was just one brownie, but rich in flavor similar to a Little Debbie brownie almost. The 'Assorted Gourmet Cookies' were actually just one big chocolate chip cookie, which resulted in laughs from us in disbelief. The biggest hit believe it or not was the Tuna Sandwich. It was the biggest one of them all, which it had to be for spending over nine dollars for Tuna. One said it was a little dry without enough mayo though. We felt the type of customer they get is the artsy type who gets full from a tiny meal.

Overall, we thought the food itself was bigger than the norm though and quite delicious, but it left us wanting more of it... it just wasn't enough for us as we needed more items to complement our food like chips, fries, macaroni salads, etc. We were not sure if our food was worth the price, but the price reflects the sole quality of the sandwich alone.

Final Rating: 3 out of 5

Chris' NY Sandwich Co.
395 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
716-854-6642