Sons + Daughters

"James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy’s Pidgin is one of the most peripatetic restaurants in the city, so it’s fitting that their sandwich shop at the top of Coal Drops Yard hops from a prawn sandwich with prawn crackers, jalapeño, and pickled ginger, to a miso egg mayonnaise with truffle crisps, to a mortadella and taleggio number set off by a careful whisper of Thai basil." - James Hansen

"The ‘Christmas S+Dwich’ at Sons + Daughters is back and, this year, v2.0 is even bigger and better than the 2019 debut. Here’s what to expect: two cushiony slices of white bloomer stuffed to the rafters with roast Swaledale turkey, spicy cranberry and smoked bacon XO, bread sauce mayo, a Marsala gravy-soaked moistmaker inspired by everyone least favourite palaeontologist, pickled red cabbage, and a pinch of peppery watercress. Yes. Please." - Lucas Oakeley

"Things between bread, along with cups of tea and intermittently huffing, are the great unifiers of the UK. Sadly, the ones at Sons and Daughters are a little divisive. They read excellently - roasted chicken with miso mayo, prawns with prawn crackers, egg and truffle crisps - but, like DHL man between the hours of 12-8pm, fail to deliver. Some elements take over, like the pickled cucumber in the chicken sandwich, while others barely feature, like the prawns in the prawn sandwich. The egg and mortadella sandwiches are the best of the bunch but, all in all, you’ll likely expect more from a sandwich that costs just under a tenner." - Jake Missing