Philpotts

It’s that time of year again folks! The one and only place you should be buying your Christmas sandwich this year is Philpotts! Yum!

I find this place a more favourable place for fast food in comparison to McDonald’s opposite Oxford Street. Obviously the waiting time is not as quick and efficient as Maccies, but the sandwich or other lunch menus is worth the trade offs in terms of health. Unless of course you are having a hangover, or else, Philpotts provide a healthy brunch or quick snack at an affordable price that is quite healthy.

Philpotts is mega close to work so I’m sure I’m going to end up going there again but I’m not really too excited about it. I don’t think what they have on offer is really that much better than the nearby Boots or Tesco (actually, it’s definitely not better than Tesco because they have tiny little Melton Mowbray pork pies for £1, my favourite!).
First trip I tried a pasta salad, second time the hoi sin duck wrap. They hadn’t got the crispy duck right, really (although granted this is not a Chinese restaurant so what did I expect). Also at £4.95 it’s not massive, if you’re hungry I suggest you head a little further down the road to Changos (which is actually where I was headed, for the second day in a row, until I got sabotaged by friendly work colleagues making bad lunch decisions). The pasta salad involved sun dried tomatoes, goats cheese and, I think, pesto. It was fine but would have been better with mozzarella. I got it as part of a meal deal but couldn’t find what «snack» qualifed anywhere so ended up with a cookie which was not part of the deal… which I then ended up swapping for a banana because I panicked. Disaster.

Big fan of their breakfast sandwich but would not say that about their lunch menu! It’s in a really convenient location on oxford road so a lot of working professionals around Oxford Road and Portland Street area frequent this place for lunch. There is a wide selection of hot and cold lunch menu from Jacket potatoes, sandwiches and even curries (though I don’t rate the curries). I would say it’s a good place to grab lunch for people who are not extremely fussy like me. But I have to say I am in love with their carrot cake because it is absolutely delicious!

Worst butty shop in Manchester. Rude Staff Can’t take orders correctly. Overpriced and undercooked. Cannot cook a cheese and onion toasty for their life! What normal person cooks a cheese toasty but cooks the
cheese separate! Then wack a load of raw onions on it. Absolutely disgusting. So ask manager to cook it again like they normally do they
told me it would taste the same and shoved it in a bag. DIRTY BUTTY SHOP STAY AWAY The first day I used Phil Potts the cheese and onion toasty’s
were not bad. Nicely toasted on each side melted cheese in the middle and
onions cooked just right. ⁵⁄₅ The second time I used Phil Potts I ordered 3 bacon and egg
on toast and 1 bacon on toast, after waiting for 15 minutes I was handed one
egg on toast and told there was no bacon, no apologies and expected me to pay
for the 1 egg on toast when clearly I would need to go to different sandwich
shop as the rest of my colleges would be starving. ! So left with no sandwiches.
⁰⁄₅ !! Day 2 I ask for a cheese and onion toasty I end up with hard
cheese on stale bread; the toast was not toasted and was more like warm
bread. Epic fail. Day 3. I ask for cheese and onion toasty but asked for it to be
toasted properly so it wasn’t like stale bread.
One extreme to the other this time they gave me charcoal. It was that
burnt i got back to my desk in work took one look at threw it in the bin. Day 4. Ordering 2 x bacon and soft egg on toast and 1 cheese and onion
toasty. End up with chewy bacon hard eggs and 1 cheese and CARROT
!!! Toasty! Never will be a day 5. Hopefully they will take this as constrictive criticism and
learn how to cook. Consistency is important with food. All staff should be trained to prepare food
in the same way. Plenty of room in Manchester for a good butty shop someone
please open one!

I’ve tried their sandwiches just twice. They claim to be fresh and healthy. Fresh? No way, I really refuse to believe that. I’ve ordered a mozzarella and salami sandwich and they didn’t bring the ingredients from different bowls, they had them in a plastic foil, already arranged, just to be put on a piece of bread. How do I know that they’ve cut the salami today, and there are not pieces from yesterday? Or the cheese, bits of mozzarella from last week?
I didn’t like that at all, and for all that I had to pay 2.20. I’ve seen the salad as well and it didn’t make me wanna buy it. Tuna and corn waiting in a corner to be served. I will probably buy some stuff from them, but only if I’m in a hurry.
The sandwiches taste alright, but I would like them to be either really fresh, either cheaper for what they offer.

If you are feeling especially flush or just want a fancy pants sandwich, pop into Philpotts and blow yourself away.
Seriously, its like Harry Potter in there. Everything is in shiny cabinets and cases and gilded with gold lettering. The staff wear fancy uniforms and seem more alive than the rest of us. The food is incredible. You can pick a base for your lunch (salad, pasta or noodles), out of the cases in the fridge, waddle over to the bar where they will add a meat, salad or whatever you like and tailor your meal to how you’d like it. They serve freshly carved meat hot from the bone in thick cut sandwiches, fresh juices smoothies and soft bread.
They serve soups, pastries and cakes if you want something light, and sell excellent coffee and tea. Philpotts is a lovely place to get your lunch if you work in the city, or is perfect to stop off and refuel if you’re out and about in town.

It’s hard to overstate the great taste of the ‘Mediterranean Tuna’ sandwich filling (or ‘Philling’?), but at over three pounds it aint cheap. 60p extra for salad too!
If you fancy a top-​end sandwich then this is the place to go, but don’t expect any friendly staff advice on what is the best filling — every time I’ve been I have encountered rudeness. But maybe they just don’t like my face

Worth paying extra as these sandwiches are utterly delicious. Nice soup too! Haven’t had much luck with their coffee however. Shame they don’t have more seats inside so you can watch the world go by. You can also get sandwiches delivered to your office.

Situated on the busy junction of Portland St and Oxford Road.
The shop is part of a chain of award winning sandwich shops that serve some of the best sandwiches I’ve eaten. The range of filling and combinations is great. The usually have 5 or so daily specials displayed on a board in the window. If they have the Chicken Tikka with Onion Bahji and mint yoghurt on as a special get one!
The only thing stopping Philpotts getting 5 stars is the price can be a little on the steep side.