11 Arkansas Sandwiches You Have To Try Before You Die

The Garden is the most popular menu item at this serious thirty year old sandwich spot. The ingredients include three kinds of cheese, mushrooms, sunflower seeds, spinach pate, and pumpernickel bread. You can get this sandwich at 5116 West Markham Street in Little Rock.

A restaurant dedicated almost entirely to gourmet grilled cheese? Jackpot! It’s hard to pick a favorite cleverly named sandwich there, but the Cheebacca is as good as any of them. On it you’ll find Hammontree’s house cheese, sharp white cheddar, bacon, pulled pork, grilled onions and garlic cilantro sauce all piled on sourdough bread. Hammontree’s is located at 326 North West Avenue Suite 8 in Fayetteville.

People love the fried bologna sandwiches, and other than your grandmama’s cast iron skillet there’s no better place to get one than at Johnny B’s. With its hometown feel and friendly service, this diner will make you feel right at home. You can get their fantastically simple old school Arkansas fried bologna sandwich at 211 South West Avenue in El Dorado.

Any list of iconic Arkansas dishes wouldn’t be complete without at least one barbecued item. You’re especially going to love the pulled pork sandwiches at the Dixie Pig in Blytheville. They’ve had ninety years to work on their recipe, and they’ve very nearly perfected it. The Dixie Pig is located at 701 North 6th Street in Blytheville.

Fried fish sandwich? Yes, that sounds very Arkansas to me. After all, some of our favorite pastimes are fishing and frying things. You’re going to love the fried fish sandwich at the Cotton Boll in Malvern at 1606 East Page Avenue in Malvern.

Ed Walker’s is famous for their French dip sandwiches, and that fame is well earned. Served in a diner that will transport you back in time with its old school drive in procedures and mid-century decor, these French dips are every bit as cool as the atmosphere. Ed Walker’s is located at 1500 Towson Avenue in Fort Smith.

Despite our distance from New York, Reuben sandwiches populate a lot of Arkansas menus. There’s a fantastic Reuben on the menu at Cross Creek Sandwich Shop in Conway, an absolutely scrumptious panini. Cross Creek Sandwich Shop is located at 1003 Oak Street in Conway.

Seriously, any po’ boy from one of Little Rock’s best Cajun restaurants will do. Their menu has po’ boys in several varieties: catfish, oyster, shrimp, crawfish, chicken, and sausage. Just pick one and dig in. Lazy Pete’s is located at 200 N Bowman Rd #9 in Little Rock.

Club sandwiches appear on menus almost everywhere, of course, but the caveman club has a little something extra. By which I mean it has everything extra and is therefore extra awesome. The caveman club isn’t just a sizable, it’s huge, and it’s waiting for you at both locations of TJ’s Sandwich Shop in Fayetteville, at 908 East Rolling Hills Drive and 1218 North Garland Avenue.

Kopper Kettle, known to its regulars as "the smokehouse," is renowned for its sandwiches and its pies. I’ll add in here that I am a regular of "the smokehouse" and I’ve never had a better sandwich than their plain old deluxe turkey and cheese on their homemade bread. I will also vouch for both their buttermilk coconut pie and their coconut cream pie. Their pecan cream cheese pie is also absolutely fantastic. In fact, you should probably take home a few extra slices of pie after you eat that glorious sandwich. The Kopper Kettle Smokehouse is located at 6310 Alma Highway in Van Buren.