Only by examining the menu or the finished products — and not by eyeballing the storefront itself — would you discover that the sandwiches in question are banh mi. The owners live in Bay Ridge; one had worked in Morningside Heights previously and noticed the dearth of Vietnamese chow.
An Italian bakery in Jersey City supplies the bread, which nicely balances a brittle crust and a chewy crumb. Here it frames the QQ sandwich ($6.75), a combo of the shop's classic and meatball banh mi, and a sardine banh mi ($6.25), centered around fatty pieces of fish. Each picture, do note, shows only the more photogenic halves of the full sandwiches.
Quick & Quality Sandwich
254 West 108th St. (Broadway-Amsterdam Ave.), Manhattan
212-510-8725
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