Taylor Gourmet - Washington

I want to share my experience from a visit to Taylor Gourmet in DC back in January, and it was disappointing. The prices for food are outrageous! On top of that, the staff got multiple details of my order wrong, including my change. You can easily find better sandwiches at more affordable places that I can't mention here. Additionally, one of the co-owners, a man with the last name Mazza, was someone I went to school with a while ago, and he comes across as very arrogant and entitled. Seriously, it's no joke. For your own peace of mind, I recommend steering clear of this restaurant.

I'm thrilled that they are back! This place was my favorite back in 2016, but unfortunately, many of their locations closed down over the years. In my opinion, they make some of the best hoagies around!

I ordered a turkey sandwich but was served a pork sandwich instead. I thought it might still taste good, but it turned out to be dry and lacking in flavor.

The Colonial was the worst sandwich I have ever attempted to eat and keep down. The cranberry sauce could not even be found on the sandwich, but I doubt I would have been able to taste it, anyway. The only flavor in that sandwich was the overwhelmingly garlicky kale. Usually, I love garlic and am quite heavy-handed with it in my cooking, but this sandwich had way too much and it completely overpowered all the other ingredients. Even removing the garlicky kale did not help, as the ridiculous amount of garlic had permeated all layers of the sandwich. I had to brush my teeth six times to make a dent in getting the garlic flavor out of my mouth. I still tasted it after that, but that at least made it a bit less nauseating. On top of that garlic disaster, hoagies do not have a crust of sesame seeds on their rolls. This place is supposedly inspired by Philadelphia and Philadelphian hoagies, but that inspiration only comes through in the sandwich names. These sandwiches are nothing like Philly hoagies and are just disgusting. They are even worse than the sandwich shop named after the New York City transit system and that is impressively bad! Finally, the cracked spuds are nothing more than unseasoned, overcooked, dry breakfast potato chunks. They are not the appropriate type of potatoes to accompany a sandwich and they really had no flavor. Salt, pepper, and ketchup could not even save them. Do yourselves a favor, if you are at Pike and Rose or are scrolling through Door Dash, just avoid this place. Your taste buds will thank you.

Ashlee: I work in the inner city and often walk past this place. I remember reading about it years ago, but never got the opportunity to try anyhoo. I wanted to try a sandwich today and it's not that bad. I had the Italian band without the ham and it was quite delicious. the brot was fresh and the ingredients were well balanced. it wasn't really crooked, and I might have waited for five minutes to eat. with the price comparable to subway) and the taste, I can confidently say that I go back.