First off, Schlotzsky's is not a deli. Â It's a fast-food sandwich and pizza joint. Â I'd actually never been to a Schlotzsky's until recently, since they were always out in the suburbs. Â This place is big and clean, and the employees were nice. Â I got the Original, which was a heckuva sandwich and pretty tasty. Â It was a lot of food and the sandwich pretty much negated any chip-eating I would have done. Â The sandwich was good but I don't think I'd go out of my way to eat Schlotzsky's again. Â I would literally have to go out of my way to get it. Â The tire smell some other reviewers have commented on was slightly noticeable, but not overpowering. Â Perhaps if you're sitting in the back of the shop by the restrooms this place shares with Firestone, you notice it more. Â The restaurant itself is great. Â It's just way out in Edina. Â Not a bad place for a quick lunch but nothing special here.
Review Source:I love the food at Schlotsky's and I used to eat at the Apple Valley location almost daily (before they closed it down). Anyway, I think this is the last one of the franchisees left in Minnesota.
So anyway, I love the sandwiches. The crust is so good, the meat is nice, everything tastes fresh. So why two stars? It like eating in an auto shop. It shares a building with a Firestone and all you can smell are automotive fumes. They assault your nose and drive you crazy. The smell of new rubber is so strong. I can't even eat in there. Even if I have no plans of going anywhere else, I will get it to go and eat it in my car in the parking lot. It really is that terrible. It makes me gag and my stomach upset to try to eat food and smell brake fluid. It's really, really unfortunate that such a good sandwich shop is in such a poor location.
You know, I can't hate on this place. We get our car worked on at the Firestone, so when the rubber hits the pastrami - you kill some time here.
So considering my deli-fed heritage - technically I should hate this place and want to cry. Â But I don't. I don't know why. Maybe it's because you can get a personal pizza that's technically truly awful and yet not. It's greaseless and actually feels healthier than Taco Bell crap and your other options in the immediate area when your car is up on a jack. Maybe it's that bread, like a commercial sourdough injera to put chicken and pesto on if you catch the chicken and pesto seasonal moment. It's truly weird.
One of the cleanest places, barring the vulcanized air currents, I've been in. Unsweetened iced tea is an option. I'm going to come out and put this on my I can't Explain list - because I like this place, with no truly good reason why!
This is my favorite deli in the city, too bad there is now just one. Â
I always try and come here when I'm in the area to grab my favorite sandwich, the Turkey Bacon Club on Sourdough.
The wonderment on a bun is served on a slightly toasted loaf of sourdough bread and is a deli lovers delight.
I think they were one of the first to toast their sandwiches so they've been doing it the longest and have perfected it.
LOVE IT!
I was in here for over an hour for dinner, but unlike some other reviewers, I didn't notice a tire smell at all - just the food smells. Â The prices are cheap - most of the entrees are under $10. Â I had a smoked turkey & jalapeno pizza. Â The pizza was pretty small at only 8" and I certainly wasn't full after finishing my pizza, but I wasn't hungry either. Â At only around $5, it was a good deal. Â If you have kids, the kids' meals are excellent deals. Â They also have a kids eat free thing on Wednesdays. Â The food was good and the service was great . Â I will definitely come back here again. Â I want to try one of their salads.
Review Source:This place smells like the inside of a tire shop... I'm not joking... They share a building with a tire shop and the offensive odor of rubber permeates the entire restaurant.
Schlotzsky's is mediocre at best in my opinion... The sandwich meat tastes like preservatives, the sandwich bread is round like a burger and tastes mass produced, and the lettuce was shredded iceburg... I've also had the pizzas, and they are nothing special. The soup I tried was pretty good though  (chicken wild rice).
For posterity, I will mention that they have a huge fish-tank. So if you can't afford a trip to the aquarium then maybe this place will do?
One of the few places that could pull me away from Taco Bell at lunch time over a decade ago when I worked for Best Buy, this little restaurant had deliciously inexpensive pizza and good sandwiches. Â I wouldn't say anything is particularly stellar about the food, but the speed with which it is made and consistency of satisfaction were dead on every time. Â I've been once in the last year or so and it seemed like the menu had expanded pretty significantly, but I stuck with what I remembered and ordered a lil' pizza and was happy when I left.
Review Source:Sitting outside the Southdale Mall on the corner of 66th. and York sits an unassuming deli that I have passed by 1,000 times.
I had a two for one coupon for a menu item and I knew I loved Schlotzky's, I think I had one when I was in high school in Arizona or else it was when they had more here? Either way it was a long time ago.
I ordered the turkey and guacamole medium and a Reuben medium. My wife had a coupon from the Entertainment book as well for a free drink.
The place had no cars in front, but there were about ten people enjoying their meals. It was about 3:30 after a Gopher football game on a nice fall day.
The clerk took my order and I had my sandwiches in about 5 minutes and she brought it out from behind the counter and handed it to me with a smile.
I brought the sandwich home and opened it up. Lots of meat, could have used some more guacamole but overall the warm sandwich melted in my mouth and very filling. Awesome bread was like a crispy sourdough and juicy at the same time.
I haven't had the Reuben yet, but the rye bread it came on looks fantastic!
Unimpressive. My boyfriend and I ate here once when we couldn't decide on where to eat lunch, so we said F-It lets eat here! The prices were a bit high for the amount of food and quality you receive, but overall, I guess it could have been worse. It was packed with people when we came here, and I thought it was weird that some of the employees were working, and watching their kids at the same time. It also sucks, that this particular location is attached to a Firestone Tires store so you can smell nothing but ham and rubber. It really isn't that enticing when you are really hungry. I don't know, I guess it is pretty cool that it is a Deli that serves pizza?
Review Source:I never thought I'd be reviewing this place, since this may be the only one left after several went belly up about ten years ago. I love their sandwiches, they are unique, even the made from scratch sourdough bread in unusual. I hadn't been in years so I ordered the medium "original" and forgot that it's huge, and the small is more of a medium size. I'm actually uncomfortable as I type this. I believe you can buy their own louisiana hot sauce in a good size bottle. They have a good variety of their own chips too. I like the salt and vinegar. For those of you wrap lovers, they have those too. They also serve pizza, why I don't know. I think a lot of their business is from the nearby office buildings, because orders can be faxed or catered. This was one of the first sandwich/deli places I found in mn., another thing new yorkers are big on. It was a good crowd at 11:30. I know the southdale shoppers tend to go to other places, but this might be worth a shot. It's around the perimeter of the mall near york, so you don't go around in circles.
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