Although the salads at Veggie Grill are plenty big for any appetite, the sandwiches are the culinary cornerstones of the restaurant. And easily the best meal between a bun is the Santa Fe crispy chickin’ sandwich. The sandwich takes the restaurant’s presumably patented chillin’ chickin’ and cuts it into a fat patty, then fries it [...]

Space has always been an issue for Angelo’s Italian Deli, a cramped place carved out of one of those claustrophobic Belmont Shore storefronts. But because of that lack of square footage, Angelo’s has always made good use of its close quarters—an economy of stocking that saw all of its products (imported oils, wines, spreads and [...]

Big Belly Deli
Barely beyond Huntington Beach, Big Belly Deli is a little place that sometimes gets forgotten between Main Street and Balboa. But that’s not to say that the deli doesn’t do a big business—even in the coldest months, the deli reels in beach-going appetites. It’s not hard for a place so small to get [...]

Sam’s World Famous Steak Sandwiches comes from the 1950s, but not in any way that would excite the historical societies that saved the original McDonald’s and still pine to revive Johnie’s Broiler. Sam’s is a stucco box with small wooden windows trimmed in thick blue paint, a yellow sign overhead and a lean-to that shades [...]