Seattle's 48 Best Sandwiches: Only In Seattle

This list could go on for days—Seattle restaurants are nothing if not diligent in localizing the classics with the bounty of the Northwest. Here are some of our favorites.

Only In Seattle
Grilled Cheese With Dungeness Crab
Beecher’s Handmade Cheese
Pike Place Market
It’s grilled cheese taken to a whole new level: Sweet Dungeness crab and Beecher’s Flagship cheese are pressed into chewy, rustic artisan bread, griddled, and served hot and crunchy ($9.95).
 
Crab And Shrimp Melt
Elliott’s Oyster House
Waterfront
If you’re the type to hover over the hot crab dip at parties, then the crab melt at Elliott’s ($15) is for you. Crab, shrimp and artichoke hearts are slathered in mayo and spread over a giant slice of focaccia, then topped with Jack cheese and broiled. Yum.
 
Oyster Po’Boy
Roy’s BBQ
Columbia City
Surprise, surprise: The best sandwich at Roy’s isn’t the famed pulled pork, it’s the jaw-dropping, smoked-oyster po’boy ($8.25), made with tender, house-smoked Taylor Shellfish Farms oysters and house-made slaw with aioli.

Crab Cake, Bacon + Avocado
Homegrown Sustainable Sandwich Shop
Fremont, capitol hill
This spectacular sandwich ($9.95) features the smoky-salty crunch of thick-cut Zoe’s bacon, a golden, griddled Dungeness crab cake, a sweet smear of hazelnut romesco and chimichurri.

Originally publishd in August 2010