Before diners take a bite out of a fresh panini, an upcoming Conway restaurant hopes they will first be taken back in time.
Presswell’s Sandwich Co. is a sandwich spot created by Warren de Villiers that adopts its theming from the golden era of newspapers — when headlines were delivered on daily print editions, rather than mobile technology.
De Villiers had been hoping to open a sandwich-focused eatery in the Grand Strand for several years now, but knew he wanted to find a way to distinguish it from other local spots. When he came upon a high-end panini press, he had found his specialty.
The theming for Presswell’s Sandwich Co. is a play on the “press” part of the restaurant’s panini press. Newspapers and printing presses represented a nostalgic feeling of older restaurants that de Villiers sought to capture with the place’s industrial interior…