got the shwarma sub. Delicious flavors and kind staff. Would definitely come here again, the ambience of the location it is in is nice as well. read more

Had a great lunch here while in Ann Arbor for a workshop. The food was great, very filling for an 8 inch sub. Definitely recommend the house sandwich - get it grilled! They have soda, chips and cookies as well as a huge selection of sandwiches and bowls. Perfect for a lunch or dinner on the go. They have limited seating inside as well as two picnic tables outside. Would eat here again for sure. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - a sandwich and a soda - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

You are better off going to a chain sandwich shop. The toppings don't taste that fresh and don't go well together. I tried the #21 spicy chicken. There was no spice at all and just had hot sauce all over it. It just did not mix well with all the other sauces and toppings. The bread gets too soggy real quick. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - #21 spicy chicken - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Edit: per my prior review, I wanted to try the cheesesteak next. Well, i tried the cheesesteak, and it is delicious! The beef they use is excellent quality and great flavor. My only complaint continues to be that the bread they use is too thin after the panini press because it is so soft. They just need a crusty bread for perfection. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - Cheesesteak - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Awesome food! Heck yeah. There's no bathroom which stinks, but other than that this place is epic! Eat here

Great subs at a cheap price. I've gotten the 8inch and the 16 and I'm happy to inform that you get your money's worth. The super sub is amazing but I will eventually need to venture out and try a different type of sub. They also deliver via grub hub which is convenient. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - 1. The Super Sub 8inch - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Sottini's delivers giant subs at reasonable prices. It's a huge bang for your buck. However, flavor-wise they're just OK. It's a step above the sub chains but only slightly. If you're looking for a lot of food for a few bucks, this is your place. Otherwise I'd look elsewhere. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - a half eaten sandwich - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

I got a generously sized sub for a great price, however I thought the sandwich was just okay. I got the turkey and Swiss add mayo and jalapeños toasted. The bread itself was very good, it was crispy and warm however everything else inside of the sandwich was not warm at all. All I really tasted in my sandwich was the turkey, and sometimes the jalapeños when I would take a bite of them. They have hot and cold sandwiches there, where you can get the hot ones grilled, but they did not have any turkey sandwiches that went on the grill. Next time I would definitely try a hot one instead! read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - Turkey & Swiss - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

A hidden Ann Arbor gem for sure. Came here for late lunch for the first time after running into the place while walking on S.Fourth. I've been searching for a nice Sub in Ann Arbor for the longest time. I am not a big fan of the typical subway or Jimmy Johns sandwiches so I'm super glad I randomly ran into this place. Decided to go in and give it a try. Very friendly worker / cashier upfront. She was super helpful and kind. I personally got the fab 4 (spicy mustard chicken sub) with jalapeños. The bread was toasted and the chicken was grilled nicely with the cheese. It tasted like a good fulfilling sub at a reasonable price. Definitely will come back for lunch here again. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - Fab 4 : spicy mustard chicken sub (halal) - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Great lunch spot. Reasonably priced subs with good flavor! My favorite is the Chipotle Chicken. The service is amazing! Check it out next time you're out for lunch. Keep in mind this review is based off the affordability, if you're looking for something gourmet check out Zingermans read more

This place makes a great, simple sandwich at a reasonable price. The core essentials are there. Meat? Sliced-to-order, tastes fresh. Bread? Just hard enough and also plenty of resistance to sogginess. Veggies? Nothing special - the usual lettuce/onion/tomato. Sauce? A traditional oil/vinegar/oregano combo which also happens to be my favorite. The interior and decor isn't anything impressive (definitely a hole-in-the-wall feel), and walking in, you feel like it's been in Ann Arbor for 30 years (I don't actually have any idea how old this place is). Nothing much to complain about, and definitely worth stopping by for a quick lunch bite. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - 16-inch super sub - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

UMICH Wrestling loves this place. Very good meatball and Chipotle chicken subs! Highly Recommend! read more

I love this place! I was born and raised in New Jersey so Italian subs are close to my heart. This place reminds me of home. I love the bread they use for their sandwiches I really appreciate the affordable prices. It never disappoints for a quick lunch. read more

I've always had great service at Sottini's. The subs are just bad, though. I went once a few years ago and left thinking I'd never go back. Was in the area and in a rush recently and decided to give it another chance. The subs were still bad. The bread is tissue-paper quality and the meats are thin. Toppings don't add much to the whole experience. I'd highly recommend you drop into a nearby cafe for a bite if you're in the area instead. There are a handful of places with better food (equally fast, too) to go just a 3-minute walk in virtually any direction. read more

The sandwiches at Sottini's are better than Subway or Jimmy John's. They seem bigger, and the meat is fresh off the slicer. A full sandwich might be too much for most people to finish. The owner is often the guy making the sandwiches, Nash Sottini. I understand that a second location on Jackson Road will be announced soon. read more

Sottini's Sub Shop - Sandwiches Near Me - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tried this place for the first time since moving to AA 3 years ago for school. I regret not trying it sooner. My sub was great and decently priced. I had a hot sub; chicken with pepper jack cheese, jalapeños, LTO, oregano, oil and vinegar. These aren't fancy subs made with organic/gluten free/non-GMO/etc. so If that's what you're looking for, look elsewhere. :) However, I'm leaving this review because of the stellar customer service. The gentleman who took my order today was so patient and even gave me recommendations because it was my first time there. Probably the best service I've received in the downtown AA area. I would return for the good service alone. Subs: 4.5 Service: 5 read more

Probably only deserving of 1 star, but the average-at-best sub sandwich came at a reasonable price. I ordered the fab-4, which was sparsely filled with a few, not very fresh ingredients. I basically ate some toasted bread with mustard on it. Had to wait about 5 minutes for someone to ring me up to pay. They also have a creepy drawing that demands that you tip. This place doesn't fit in with the quality of the Ann Arbor restaurant scene. Save yourself the trip and go somewhere else. read more

We came here for lunch on a Saturday and were the only customers. As others have said, the place is a hole in the wall and the people who worked there weren't very friendly and acted as if they wanted us to hurry up and order so they could get back to more important things. I had the Fab 1 and my husband had the Fab 3 and they were both very good and not very expensive. You can make a sandwich a combo with chips and a drink. They also have homemade baklava or pre-packaged baked goods for dessert. If you worked nearby, this would be a solid take out place that wouldn't break the bank. read more

4 and a half would have been right. Maybe being in the legal community, I'm guilty of loving the lunchtime sub too much, but Sottini's offers up traditional subs at superb prices. No, this is not super high quality meat, so don't order a three ingredient sandwich with two meats and some cheese thinking that the quality of produce will carry you through. This is not your hip contemporary place with foraged herbs and a religious reverence for seasonality. Toast that thing, with garlic, add some hot mustard, pickles. hot peppers, and all the rest of it. I'm hooked on the turkey + pastrami sandwich with extra meat. Service was friendly and markedly efficient. read more

This place has the best made to order sandwiches. The staff is friendly. The oil and vinegar is the cherry on top of a yummy toasted sandwich! read more

Wonderful family shop with great Schwarma sandwiches called "fab-1/fab-2." Came here with family from California and were greatly impressed with the overall friendliness, great prices, and atmosphere. read more

I used to go there a lot but quit after listening to the owners trash-talk customers (especially women) when they left, or as young girls walked by; calling them derogatory names, etc. A woman would walk in and the guys would instantly switch to "customer mode", when she left, the talk would start up - I was a regular & they thought I was complicit. The food is OK but the misogyny ruined my appetite for Sottini's. read more

It baffles my mind that I'm the first to review Sottini's. This place is Ann Arbor's hidden gem of a sub shop. I have traveled the world (OK, maybe just the US) looking for a better sub shop and I have not found one. The veggie sub, grilled with guacamole is always fresh and always delicious and I've been getting it for years. I'd recommend getting most subs grilled and if you're starving, go for the 16 inch. Sottini's is a family joint, all the kids working there are friendly and funny. If you go in often, they'll recognized you and build up a rapport. Their banter is beyond entertaining. Sottini's remains down-to-earth and delicious among a sea of pretentious and mediocre downtown restaurants. read more

Best sub shop in all downtown, whenever I'm hungry and in the area this the best spot to hit and you can't get full for these prices anywhere else in downtown read more

I checked Sottini's out for the first time this week. I got the veggie sub (8 inches was plenty!) which has provolone, swiss and guacamole. I had it grilled, which turns the bread nice and crusty. They dress the sandwiches with tomato, lettuce, oil and vinegar and oregano, and I thought the oregano really adds something. I also got a small serving of potato salad as a side. Everything was fresh and tasty, and my complete takeout meal was just over $6. They also sell pre-made meat pies or spinach and cheese pies for between $2.50 and $4. I'm thinking about picking up one of those to go sometime for a quick and cheap lunch. read more

If I am in downtown Ann Arbor looking to get a sub, this is where I'm going to go. They're delicious, the pricing is decent, they have a good selection of potato salad, macaroni salad, and other assorted sides, as well as a broad selection of beverages and chips. I am usually there for lunch, and if you go during the peak lunch hour it will be crowded, there will be a wait. It is a small place and seating is limited. But it sure as hell beats Jimmy Johns, Subway, or Quiznos. read more

I stopped in to Sottini's for the first time today. I was hoping for a diamond in the rough. I found ... the hole in the rock where the diamond used to be. : ( The people working there were nice enough, and even after 1pm, there was a steady stream of customers. It's an old place, which could be cool, except that it has a slightly strange odor to it and seemed a little dirty ... not the scent of fresh subs, unfortunately. I ordered a turkey and cheese sub. The plusses: plenty of turkey and toppings, and they grill the sub, so the bread gets a little crusty/chewy and the cheese melts. The minuses: whatever is passing for "mayo" in there is not mayo. It's not Hellman's, anyway. It might actually by Miracle Whip, which for me is an anti-miracle. In any case, it was sweet. The biggest complaint: the quality of the meat is not great. I'm the kind of person who will only buy Boar's Head or similar quality. I want to be able to see strands of turkey meat in my turkey. This meat, while sliced nicely thin, was quite spongy and thus very processed. I care about meat quality, and so do not want to buy out what I wouldn't buy for myself at home. But if you are relaxed about such things, it's probably fine. There were a lot of people there, so somebody likes the place. The prices are decent - between $4-$5 for an 8" sub. Maybe a different kind of sub would be better?? read more

Are you serious? Really? I constantly complain to everyone who'll listen that Ann Arbor lacks any decent sub shop. If you think Sottini's is what a real sub shop is supposed to be, you've obviously been "searching the US" only in places like Utah or South Dakota. Their bread is flabby, squishy, Wonder Bread-like crap, not real crusty Italian sub bread like anyplace worth their salt. I've had better subs not just in places I've lived where they are readily available (New York City) but also in places like Lawrence, KS. Dear God. Everyone else: avoid at ALL COSTS. This place is yet another example of how people in Ann Arbor have a ridiculously parochial view of their "city" as some sort of culinary paradise. read more

Deli style sub shop. Priced better than any other sub shop in AA, very good. I always get take out, I think it is a little cluttered to eat there. A little slow, but if you have about 10 minutes at lunch hour, its worth the wait. read more

Manyac and sons! Nash will give everyone who comes in a zubra sub! Tell them Lars sent you!

Gross. Maybe being from further east (I've spent time in New York City and Rochester, NY) where we have real sandwich shops had something to do with it, but this was one of the worst subs I've ever had. I ordered a meatball sub, and paid $0.40 extra for hot peppers. It's still not expensive, especially for the advertised 8" size. Before I saw the thing I was planning on saving half for later. A few minutes later, I got my sub. The bread was thin, hot, and soggy. They'd obviously put the whole thing in the microwave. The cheese was melted stickily onto the bread. The meatballs had not been simmering in tomato sauce, like they are at any decent sandwich place (hell, even Subway). They'd just put them in the microwave along with the bread and cheese. The worst part though was the sauce. It was cool, paste-like, and tasted of iron and tomatoes, and nothing else. They had just spread it onto the gaps left in the bread in front of the meatballs, meaning there was none on the sides of the meatballs or behind them, in with the cheese and peppers. It was also tiny. So let's sum up: small, hot, soggy bread, tasteless cheese with a consistency indistinguishable from the bread, bland meatballs, and cold, thick tomato paste that tasted like it came from a can. I threw most of it out. read more

I don't know what happened with the one really negative review. But I was really pleasantly surprised by this place. It is like an old-fashioned Italian deli run by a middle-eastern family so there is a nice twist. The sandwiches were really good-- the bread in particular is really delicious (we had toasted subs, so maybe that explains the discrepancy in reviews)-- but it was better than Jimmy Johns and WAY better than subway. The meat was freshly shaved-- that was a key difference from the chain places. Freshly shaved pastrami and roast beef taste WAY better than the stuff in the plastic containers. Also, they had interesting soup of the day-- middle east lamb soup. You can also get hummus or falafel subs, which I bet are really good. This is a cool, affordable, local place that is really unique, delicious, the service is good, polite and quick. Highly recommend. read more

My Philly cheesesteak was good, but it had very little meat inside. After eating here, i picked up another cheesesteak at the gas station because i didn't want to be starving the rest of the day at work and the gas station one had twice as much meat. Watup wit dat?!? Definitely not a Mr. Spots... sad. On the upside, the tables outside on the sidewalk were nice to sit at, with a sun umbrella. read more

Wanted a quick bite for take out and not familiar with what was around. This place was recommended by a fellow business owner in the area. I tired the original 16" and it was awesome! The food was fresh, great taste, and it filled me up. Seemed like it took a long time as there was only 1 person ahead of me, but still a great place and the food was outstanding, great value! read more

I've been coming here for a few years. Stumbled on this place by accident . The sandwiches are great & always fresh. I like them best when grilled. Doesn't look like much on the outside, or in, lol. But if your a true foodie, you know the taste is what counts. Tasty indeed! read more

Uh... they claim to serve guacamole, but it's really some sort of flavored mayonnaise colored a pale green. Perhaps if you order a meat sub your experience will be better than mine. I do not recommend anything with what they call guacamole. read more

Not even going to lie, some things about Sottini's are gross. If you are at all uptight, you should NOT eat here, ever. Take for instance the fake plant in the window--it has NEVER been dusted. That being said, it's incredibly cheap and filling. The meat is freshly sliced and you get a LOT of it. I'm pretty sure the sub buns are from the famous Amoroso's. It's just a really quirky, neighborhood place that goes gangbusters at lunch from the surrounding law offices and courts. I'm sure the dressing on their subs is just plain old oil and vinegar, but it somehow is magically transformed into the best sub dressing ever. Their wolverine sub is totally worth a trip in, and is definitely 5 stars. Everything else about it (except their low, low prices) is 1 star. hence the 3 star average. read more

Yeah, the atmosphere is most definitely lacking and the service was ok. I came in with an internet coupon on my phone and was met with instant hostility when I mentioned that I wanted to use it. I was actually primed for this reaction because I realize that there is no way the restaurant is making any money off of these deals, but it didn't make it any less uncomfortable. Also, if you're putting one of these coupons out there you're employees should know about it and service shouldn't suffer because of it. If you don't want to participate, then don't. Eventually, the gals working there warmed up to me and my husband because we're nice people and we have good senses of humor, but if you're a bit sensitive when it comes to dealing with attitudes then you might have a problem. Anyway, my sub was actually really good. Nothing life-changing, but just as good as Subway if not a shade better. Prices are good as well. If I'm in the mood to order a take-out sub, I'll happily order from Sotini's rather than go to a chain. I don't think I'd eat in again, though. Unfortunately, Kristin D.'s description of the atmosphere is spot-on. read more

Had not eaten here in years and grabbed a sub on my way to work. The cashier was courteous, the place smelled of tasty meats and grilled onions. I purchased a cold turkey & cheese (#4) sub and it was so yummy. The toasting made it more of a panini-type sandwich and this melted the cheese into the bread. So good. A hidden AA gem. read more

Subs were excellent, staff was super nice. Highly recommend the Chipotle Steak. Overall this place is a hidden gem in Ann Arbor- do not sleep on it! read more