Best Sub for me is also the Cheapest...Subway!

I can tell you though, that at lunch time, the lines for Subway are out the door, much to the detriment of the other food places in the Skywalk. I suspect that many of those "upper" priced places are going to go out of business.

Unfortunately, I see the "ethnic" Asian restaurants closing first. Simply because, much of the food now is too overpriced for the actual value you are getting. I also made it a point that the only eating places that are going to do well in this hard economy, are the places that cater to the homeless and socially displaced. 

So bye bye fancy restaurants with expensive 10 dollar lunches. I think 10 dollars is too much for a lunch and 20 is too much for dinner. What are you eating anyway? Over 100 hundred people in a 3rd world country can eat for week on 10 dollars. (It would be hard to cut a 6-inch sub into that many pieces, too.)

Northern Waters is indeed a little on the pricey side, but well worth it. Fabulous sandwiches! The Sitka Sushi is my favorite. Sure wish there was somewhere I could get a good banh mi in this town (Viet Namese subs).

Hot and toasty, Quiznos.

Muffeletta at Italian Village is pretty darn good. The Rebel at Beaner's is also quite good.

If you want to save money, pack a sandwich. Any prepared food purchase is a decadent luxury.

Erbert & Gerbert's

It's not a sub, but I love the simplicity of the Greenery in the Holiday Center!

French river dip at the lighthouse and buffalo pastrami buffalo sandwich at  scenic cafe ers and gerbs flash with guts and beer cheese soup and amazing hippsters has good food but $

The best sub ever is not to be had in Duluth. It is from the Big Ten in Stadium Village in Minneapolis. I know people from Chicago who make pilgrimages to the Big Ten.

As a long-time Northern Waters Smokehaus employee (and menu collaborator), I can tell you that we have some sandwiches on hero roll (rectangular), though I always thought a true sub needed to be extra long, like at least 7 inches. However, if you want to talk bang for your buck (and I realize the phrases "extra long," "7 inches," and "bang for your buck" have all been fruitlessly wasted here on a post about sandwiches), then I have to shamelessly root root root for the home team, N.W.S, which really goes the extra mile, quality-wise, and has prices ranging from $6 - $9 (roughly) per sandwich. Also, Italian Village is perfection, especially the Spicy Hot and the Hot Meatball, and Sample Saturday is a glorious addendum to a sandwich pig-out. 

@Claire, Chester Creek Cafe has a rather ritzy Banh Mi sandwich, and I believe it falls into the aforementioned "gourmet $10" category.

I agree Amazing Grace has the best sandwiches. However it is also true that they're not subs.

Italian Village totally fills the Grinder sandwich void left by every other sandwich shop. They're great.

Northern Waters is the best place in town for a sandwich of any kind, period. The bison pastrami is out of this world, all of the folks that work there are top notch in my book.

If only Fichtners was still around! I was so depressed when they had the fire and didn't rebuild. Tough to beat their $2.50 sandwiches.

Anyhoo, not much in the twin ports can hold a candle to Northern Waters for a good sandwich. The lunch sandwiches at the Scenic are really good as well.