Tricky's Sandwich Co. is a cafe in Birchville, Upper Hutt, with a 4.7 Google rating.
A sandwich cafe lives or dies on the basics: bread that is fresh that day, and fillings made in the shop rather than unwrapped from plastic. The better ones build each order to request, so a chalkboard of daily options usually means the kitchen is genuinely cooking. Watch the lunchtime queue as well, because a busy counter of locals is the most honest review a sandwich shop can get. Regulars tend to arrive early, before the best rows in the cabinet are gone.
Tucked into Birchville at Upper Hutt's northern end, Tricky's gives the neighbourhood a dedicated sandwich stop of its own.