{"id":365346,"date":"2026-10-06T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365346\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:00:37","slug":"bostons-best-sandwich-draws-long-lines-in-nyc-as-lines-double-in-the-north-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365346\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston\u2019s &#8216;Best Sandwich&#8217; draws long lines in NYC as lines double in the North End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/food-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFood News\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTable Mercato has sold out its first two weekends in NYC as the lines in Boston have doubled, according to owner Jen Royle.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/s3___bgmp-arc_arc-feeds_generic-photos_to-arc_Wiggs_TSandwich_3-6ac3b9272c9bb-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-16:9 size-16:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\tTable Mercato expanded to New York City&#8217;s East Village on Sept. 26.  Jonathan Wiggs Globe \/Staff\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Table Mercato opened its New York City location on Sept. 26 and has already sold out both of its first two weekends. Back in Boston, meanwhile, in true rivalry spirit, Boston showed up with a line stretching down the block to remind New York where these sandwiches came from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure how our opening week would go, and I certainly didn\u2019t expect our sandwiches to go viral so quickly,\u201d owner Jen Royle told Boston.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/north-end\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North End business<\/a>, which won Boston magazine\u2019s Best Sandwich in 2025, is located along Hanover Street offering a cafe, specialty market and counter service, and sit-down service, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/restaurants\/2026\/04\/30\/table-mercato-boston-nyc-expansion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become wildly popular<\/a> since opening in 2020, with viewers online gawking at the sheer size of each sandwich. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe lines in Boston have doubled, and they sold out both days this weekend\u2014something that had never happened before,\u201d said Royle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An expansion to New York City is quite a feat for a sandwich shop. But Royle is already seeing lines out the door in NYC for the hot and crispy chicken cutlet sandwiches served on a warm bed of focaccia from <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenstarsbakery.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Stars Bakery<\/a> in Rhode Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Royle believes the intense demand in Boston has prepared her to run a well-oiled machine in NYC. They\u2019ve already hit a few bumps, facing a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeFiW7apCoK\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major bread issue<\/a>\u201d the second weekend, but still managed to serve the customers waiting in line. Royle hopes to find half the success in NYC she\u2019s found in her hometown.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI miss my team in Boston so much, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful and proud of how they\u2019ve run my three stores while I\u2019ve been in New York,\u201d Royle said. \u201cI kept them fueled all weekend with pizza from our fellow North End neighbors at Regina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for The Dish<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-generic-cta__subtitle\">Stay up to date on the latest food and drink news from Boston.com.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food News Table Mercato has sold out its first two weekends in NYC as the lines in Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-365346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}