sandwich bar

plural sandwich bars

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

   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.

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

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   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.

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

   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.

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

   Synonyms: sandwichery, sandwich shop

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