In today’s installment of “What Did Spencer Eat For Lunch?” I visited a neighborhood favorite, Lottie and Zula’s and got one of my fave sandos, their TBD smoked chicken salad grinder. There have been a number of good sandwich joints that have opened up in the inner NE hood in recent years: Lottie & Zula’s, Better Half, and even more recently Pasture. Lottie & Zula’s is one of the few places I can walk to, so not so much of an adventure, but I do want to give them props as I go there once a week or so. Plus, they are a record shop and have a good, curated selection with cheaper prices than most. Bonus!

The sandwich: delicious, unique, tangy and a bit zany. Chicken salad sandwiches run the gamut: they can be divine, transcendent even, and on the other end, if you get a bad one, they can be the worst thing you’ve ever gotten. Thankfully, this one tends towards the transcendent end of the spectrum. Smoked chicken breast, house-made harissa, arugula, pickled red onions, watermelon radishes, harissa mayo and Bulgarian feta all on a toasted bun. Like I said, very unique! The Bulgarian feta hits way different than Greek feta and is a nice foil to the ingredients. Smoky, tangy, rich flavors. Their harissa is tasty, and is used twice in flavoring the mayo. Definitely worth an order, as are their other sandos. Good quality ingredients, the menu is solid and is in 3 parts: breakfast sandos, grinder-style (on a hoagie roll) and sliced bread sandos. Certainly worth a visit if you’re in the hood, and might even merit traveling from further afield in town. The space is chill, and opened up for in-person dining recently after starting as to-go only in the old Toro Bravo spot. Plus, a small record shop that is definitely worth checking out independent of the restaurant.