Ask Dubliners for sandwich recommendations and the name that comes up over and over again is Barry Stephens’s 147 Deli, up the street from the Rotunda Hospital. His sarnies are not for the faint-hearted, being generous in terms of meat and flavour. The weekly specials include salt beef baps; chicken Kiev laden with garlic and herb butter; crisp bacon, iceberg lettuce and old-fashioned coleslaw; and Mexican pulled-pork shoulder marinated in cola and chipotle, with pico de gallo (chopped salad), pickled red cabbage, jalapeño, cheddar cheese, cheese sauce and nachos, on white sourdough. Oof.

Katy McGuinness – The Sunday Times