To say quality dining options are limited in Canary Wharf would be a gross understatement. Thankfully, this delicious carvery stand was not far from my office. Obviously quite popular with the locals, since the lines can be quite long at lunch. Salt Beef Hash: In the States we'd call this corned beef hash on an English muffin. It was a hearty yet-not-too-huge breakfast sandwich option. Like their delicious salt beef for lunch, just chopped up and mixed with potatoes. A great way to use up leftovers. Sausage & Egg: A whole lot of sausage! The tubular kind, cut length wise and topped with a fried egg. Way better than what McDonald's is slinging. Bacon: Lots of it, but not very crispy. From an American perspective, this tasted more like salty smoky ham. Not really my thing. Salt Beef: The crown jewel! I'm pretty sure this is what we call corned beef back home. Generous chunks of this tender and savory meat, with just the right amount of pickles and sauerkraut to contrast the saltiness. Braised Beef: Basically stewed beef sliced up and put on bread. I especially like how they poured extra gravy over it. Probably the heartiest of the sandwiches I tried, which is saying something since none of them were light! read more

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Been seeing my colleagues getting coffee here for a few days, so thought I should try it out as well. It's a lovely nice little store, and the display fridge is full of super eye appealing sandwiches! Man, that salmon cream cheese bagel man! Looked soo awesome! Coffee was decent but not the best I've had. It was a lot better than those chain competition coffee stores where you just need to push a button and some brown liquid comes out. Birley here they do tamper and do your proper coffee, but my initial experience was just only slightly above average. I was quite bummed they didn't give me a Birley cup today so I only had a plain cup to show. read more

Birley Sandwiches - I'm sad they didn't give me their usual red cup with an animal symbol on it. So no good picture here :( - Sandwiches Near Me - London, XGL

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I love this place. There's a really boring pret a manger next door and this is the perfect alternative. Prices are very reasonable, there's seating available or you can choose to take your lunch to have 'al descko'. Would definitely recommend this place read more

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There are SIX Birleys in Canary Wharf. I found out the hard way, and since I don't want you to suffer the same fate, I'm going to tell you the differences. DOES NOT SERVE SALT BEEF BRISKET or any carved meat 1. Canada Place: Birley Sandwiches - has no Yelp placement and serves a variety of soup and sandwiches. 2. Canada Place: Birley Baguette kiosk 3. Cabot Place West: Birley Soups and Salad 4. Cabot Place West: Birley Sandwiches 5. West India Dock: Birley Sandwiches }}}}SERVES SALT BEEF BRISKET AND OTHER CARVED MEAT{{{{ 6. Canada Square: Birley Salt Beef Bar - this review you are reading now. This place does not serve soup or salad and is the one you are probably looking for, specializing in carved meat unlike any of the other joints who serve normal deli sandwiches. It is located next to the Reuters Plaza, in Canada _SQUARE_, not Canada Place. A display case of 4-5 chefs carving the meat and making you sandwiches under heating lamps: Salt beef brisket, pork belly, scottish roast beef, roast turkey breast, new zealand lamb, and cumberland sausage. 5.50 GBP for a sandwich full of meat, 3.50 for a half sandwich full of meat. They have breakfast sandwiches/bloomers in the morning, some drinks, and some dessert, but no one cares. Come here for the hot juicy meat sandwiches. I tried the fluffy white bloomer bread with apple sauce and pork belly (and roasted crispy skin on top) (5.50 GBP )and the bloomer with salt beef briskets, English mustard, gherkins (5.75 GBP). No salad, no cheese (I'm pretty sure they're not even options), just what I named. SO.GOOD. My boyfriend likes the pork belly more than the salt beef brisket. I could not choose. If there's going to be one thing I will miss about Canary Wharf, it will be Birley's Salt Beef Bar. The queue/line could get long, but it's so fast you won't even feel it. Service is sweet. You can pay by card without issue. If you like juicy meat sandwiches, this is the place for you. GO! read more

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First to note, this is located under an office building. You must look for the stairs to bring you below the lobby level. I found this sandwich to be perfectly nice sized and not overflowing with meat. I had the salt beef with English mustard and pickles on brown bread. Everything is fresh and tasty. I recommend this but do not want to give the impression that it is huge or earth shattering. It is very good and at 11:15 on a weekday, there was no line. read more

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You know how some sandwich places give you something with just a couple slices of paper thin meat? The ones where the volume of salad on the bread greatly outweighs that of the meat? Ok, well Birley's Salt Beef Bar is the complete opposite of that. Unless you're a fan of roast meats on your sandwich, and not much else, you're not going to want to come here. The sandwiches are essentially meat, bread, meat, sauce, meat and then a bit more meat. Just how I like it :) The sandwiches are made to order. If you're going for lunch, either get there early or late. Otherwise you'll end up in a twisting and turning queue tortured the whole time by the sights and smells of the amazing roast meats being assembled into mammoth sandwiches. As you arrive at the counter your order is taken. You have your choice of four or five fresh crusty breads and baguettes to begin with. I generally go with the rye. They hack two thick slices directly off the loaf and throw them down on the thick butcher block which is their carvery workspace. Next comes the meat. Your choices are salt beef (from which they obviously get their name), leg of lamb, roast beef, gammon, turkey or a sausage. Let me tell you, they are all damn good. I rotate amongst the roasts, but generally gravitate towards the lamb. Once you choose your meat, the carver deftly spears the roast of your choice and slides it front and center. And begins to carve. ...and carve. ....and carve. The first time I ate here I thought to myself "hmm... he must just be cutting extra meat off for another salt beef sandwich that he's sure someone will order." Nope, it was all for me. Wow. Finallly you get to choose how to dress your sandwich. No lettuce, tomato, cheese or anything like that here. Simply a sauce and perhaps some coarse salt and ground pepper. Each type of roast has a default sauce that comes with it. Salt and roast beef is horseradish mustard, lamb is a mint sauce, turkey is a cranberry spread. However, you can request whatever you'd like. I generally go with horseradish mustard, mint, salt and pepper with my leg of lamb. At the end of the process you have an assembled mountain of meat sandwiched between a couple thick slices of moist, chewy, crusty bread with a swipe of sauce to keep it interesting. Throw in half a gherkin on the side and something to drink an you've got an incredible lunch on your hands. This is clearly a four star sandwich for me. read more

The best place in Canary Wharf for lunch. Hands down. With all the Prets and Eats and junky pre-made mayo-filled sandwiches you can get in the area, Birley's is a shining star. I go to this one in Canada Square any time I want a good, made-to-order sandwich. Seriously, coming from NYC, the one thing I really truly missed was a good deli where you could go up to the counter, tell the guy what you wanted - bread, meat, cheese and all - and boom, it was there for you. This is it. They don't skimp on the meat or the cheese or the dressings, for that matter, and it's all in a budget-friendly price range. There are many Birley's locations out in the Wharf and all of them get crowded around lunchtime, but don't be alarmed, the queues all move relatively quick. This is my sandwhich place. I go to the Birley's at Churchill place (near the post office) when I want a good salad or a soup. And when I want a quick pre-made but not refrigerated sandwich, I go to the baguette stand across from the HSBC in the mall. read more

Roast pork belly sandwich, dig in, say no more. A must try to fatty meat lover, better than salt beef as my personal opinion. read more

Birley Sandwiches - Hand down roast pork belly, if you are big fan of fatty meat, you have to come over!!! - Sandwiches Near Me - London, XGL

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When I used to eat meat I really loved this place. The salt beef is right on the button and the lamb is delish. They also serve pork joints and sausages. The counter has several prep boards (about 6) - you place your order and can watch them make your sandwich: slicing the joint, choping the pickles... There are NO non meat alternatives so veggies needn't pay any attention to this place (to be honest, I would still avoid if there were as there's a lot of meat handling). I still pass by here to pick up a treat for a lazy friend and have a chat with a couple of staff members that I've grown to know over time - they're very friendly and a few are very generous with their servings. During the peak lunchtimes you'll find a snakelike queue formed, which mainly consists of men :-) There are a few seats to the right of the counter, which get occupied really quickly during peak times. read more

This is the place to come if you are still feeling a little ropey at lunch following a heavy night out the day before. As the name suggests, Hot Salt Beef is to the fore but the other meat options (turkey, pork and sausage) are equally good. Slices of your choice of meat are piled into your choice of bread with all the appropriate condiments on offer. Nothing could be more delicious. As other reviewers noted this outlet is cash only and has no vegetarian option. So, not a place to bring friends who are not dedicated carnivores. read more

Rip off salad bar! salad its not great, staff is so unfriendly, nothing has changed since 1 year ago.

My foray into the British tradition of hitting the pub for a few rounds after work left me in a somewhat weakened state the next morning. Determined to regain my winner mojo, I wandered the maze of underground shopping underneath canary wharf and discovered the Birley egg bloomer ($2.50 + $0.50 for cheese). For non-Brits, egg bloomers are egg sandwiches, and Birley doesn't mess around in this arena. Truly a breakfast of champions (and the spinach to my Popeye), my sandwich had two freshly fried eggs, several slices of melted real cheese (not that there's anything wrong with American cheese) on top of a delicious toasted baguette. Despite only having 2 eggs, the sandwich was enormous and intensely satisfying. PARTING THOUGHT: after breakfast, I put on a cape, flexed my newly enormous biceps and conquered the world... read more

I'm big lover of Salt Beef Beigels, growing up with them, watered and nourished as a small child by them courtesy of Brick Lane (Biegel Bake is the better one of the two next door to each other by the way). Birleys comes nearly 95% close to that - if they gave you a couple more slices of salt beef it would be perfect. Amazing - Tasty - soft melt in your mouth beef. AMAZING. read more

Awful customer service. Long wait for a very small overpriced sandwich. It was also untoasted even though I asked it toasted.

Get here before noon, otherwise when the lunch hour hits the line builds up seemingly out of thin air; civil financial business-men and -women going through the grind in Canary Wharf flock here and then snake around the imposed queue an orderly fashion. Reason why: you get nice cuts of freshly carved juicy meat and a slathering of sauce on thick slices of fluffy fresh bread. In a city that loves sandwiches (but tends to get stuck with a selection of malty, mayonnaise-y things tucked into in cardboard triangles from the grab-and-go at the local grocery), this is a proper deli giving sandwiches their due respect. read more

This has been a great spot for years. The lunchtime meat sandwiches take some beating. Meat is carved and piled into really fresh soft bread in front of your eyes. When you think they can't possibly add more meat, the knife goes swish and they cram it in. Gherkin on the side, and bam a great lunch for about £6.50. Recommend the salt beef and the pork with crackling. read more

Delicious roast beef sandwiches. I got the roast beef sandwich for 5.50 pounds. They slice the beef right in front of you, so you know its fresh. Its very tender too. They customize your sandwich too, you can choose to have mustard, pickles, horseradish etc. read more

Sandwich here melts in your mouth, seriously. Inexpensive, top quality, perfect portion and great servers. Cash only read more

During my recent business trip to my company's London office my colegues & I were looking for a quick grab and go type breafast stop. Reliable 'Yelp' pointed out an shop close to the office that would satisfy my ravenous morning appetite. They really didn't disappoint. I had their 'Hot Sausage & Egg Bloomer' and let me tell you it truly filled my ravenous morning hunger. This was a VERY pleasant surprise as I was uncertain if any of the English breakfast fare would satisfy my morning appetite. I passed this shop on my way into the office during my stay in London and saw the line of people taking away these great little packages of hearty sandwiches. It was mid week when I decided to give them a try and boy I was not disappointed. If you're ever in Canary Wharf you must try this place for your morning meal. Just make sure you are as hungry as I am in the morning because the food her was very filling read more

I had heard a lot about this place from friends. So went there for lunch yesterday and was disappointed with the salt beef sandwich after a long wait. I think I would go back to Ruebens on Baker Street as they probably do the best salt beef sandwich in London. read more