{"id":980735,"date":"2026-08-04T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:57:19","slug":"take-your-lunch-break-at-this-new-uptown-phoenix-sandwich-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980735\/","title":{"rendered":"Take your lunch break at this new Uptown Phoenix sandwich shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPaper Bag’s Lunch Money sandwich doesn’t skimp on roast beef. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Sara Crocker<\/p>\n

When a new spot opens in town, we\u2019re eager to check it out, let you know our initial impressions, share photos and dish about menu items. First Taste,<\/a> as the name implies, is not a full-blown review but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened \u2013 an occasion to sample a few items and satisfy curiosities (both yours and ours).<\/p>\n

Some food rituals are easy to romanticize. There\u2019s the satisfaction of a well-made coffee on a lazy Saturday morning or an ice-cold martini at the end of the week. We\u2019ll wait hours for brunch<\/a> or spend weeks trying to make a dinner reservation at the latest hot spot. But what about lunch? For many, it\u2019s a meal of utility, something inhaled while hunched over a desk between meetings.<\/p>\n

Paper Bag Sandwich Co.<\/a>, a small deli counter tucked into The Frederick in Uptown Phoenix, argues for giving lunch its due.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hunter Breshears, who owns Chewk\u2019s Cookies, opened the sandwich shop<\/a> next to his bakery in June. Paper Bag taps into the same nostalgia and simplicity that powers Chewk\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve got good taste,\u201d a mirrored sandwich board stationed outside the sandwichery reads. Inside, the small space centers around the sage green-tiled counter. A deli case holds meats, cheeses and bags of greens. Behind the cold case, a staffer slices Paper Bag\u2019s house Tuscan flatbread, schiacciata.<\/p>\n

Next to the counter, a niche holds a drink cooler and relics of the turn of the century, including a boxy TV, a VCR and tapes. On the other side of the counter is a bar looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows, filled with yellow metal stools for diners to eat their sandwiches. In the cooler half of the year, The Fred\u2019s tree-lined courtyard would make for a charming picnic spot. We, like most other customers on a recent afternoon, took our sandwiches to go in a titular brown paper bag.<\/p>\n