The best sandwiches in St. Paul might be hiding in a red building that looks like it could house anything from a garage to a small warehouse, but inside Nelson Cheese & Deli, sandwich perfection happens every single day.
This is the kind of place that makes you reconsider your entire relationship with lunch and wonder why you’ve been wasting time at inferior establishments.
The building sits there looking completely ordinary, which is either brilliant camouflage or just happy coincidence, but either way it means the people who find this place feel like they’ve discovered something special.
And they have, because what happens inside this unassuming structure is nothing short of sandwich wizardry performed by people who actually care about what they’re making…