Three Mondays ago, it was the week leading up to Christmas, and as a result most of the food outlets at the University of Queensland had closed for the year, but not Subway. Partially because it was one of the only places open and partially for the sake of this blog, I went to Subway on my break from work that day. Keen followers of this blog (yeah right!) will remember that my last experience at Subway was a negative one. So this time I decided to try something a little bit different. I ordered toasted pepperoni and cheese on an Italian herb and cheese sub with olives and marinara sauce and a chocolate chip biscuit (erroneously referred to as a "cookie"). I guess you could call this a pizza sub. The pepperoni was good. In fact it was much spicier than I would have expected from a place like Subway. So that was a plus. The cheese was decent. I would have liked more of it though. The olives were nothing special, but I like even average olives. However, the olives were cool, whereas the sub itself was naturally hot. I suppose this is unavoidable at Subway because they toast your sandwhich before adding the salad options. The marinara sauce was pretty good too. If I were to order an actual pizza and get this sauce, I'd be happy enough. The Italian herb and cheese bread was as good as it needed to be, but was otherwise fairly unremarkable. I seem to have it in my memory that Subway's biscuits are of quite a high standard as far as biscuits go, but the biscuit I got was the sort of biscuit one would expect to get from any number of supermarkets, only bigger. However, I was there for the sandwhiches and not the biscuits, and even so the biscuit was fine. So, overall this was a fairly positive experience that has restored some modicum of my faith in the Subway chain. To use a pizza analogy, I would rate this sub as a damn sight better than the likes of Domino's or Pizza Hut, but not as good as some of the other pizza places I have reviewed in this blog; Pizza Capers or Donini's for example.
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