I’ve been developing a sort of obsession with finding the best things. Inspired in part by an article by Dustin Curtis, and by a desire to have the best experiences possible whether traveling or at home (which I think is something everyone should strive for), I’ve decided to add a new feature to my blog: Unparalleled. (Because I’m a designer and I like fancy names for things.) These Unparalleled sandwiches are the best in their class. They represent what a burger should be or, in the case of the sandwich that inspired me to start this, what a falafel should be. They are worth traveling and waiting for. The whole time you’re eating it, you will think, “This is a fucking amazing sandwich.”

I don’t believe there’s one “best” sandwich in the world, simply because of the nature of a sandwich, because anything imaginable can go between two pieces of bread, but I hope that these sandwiches will represent, at the very least, the best in their class. For instance, reviews I plan to write include the BLT at Flour, which I firmly believe to be the best BLT in Boston, though it’s distinctly possible New York has a best BLT, and I would not be opposed to be writing about that, and including it in the Unparalleled posts, because, while I say these sandwiches are worth traveling to, there’s certainly a limit as to how far one would go for a sandwich. I think I personally draw that limit somewhere south of a four hour train ride.