The Complete List Of Jersey Mike's Subs, Ranked

If you ask us, it's audacious and foolhardy for a national sandwich chain like Jersey Mike's to even attempt to put a cheesesteak on its menu and confidently stand behind it. Cheesesteaks, inexorably linked with the New Jersey-adjacent city of Philadelphia, engender hardcore brand loyalty. And plenty of residents of the City of Brotherly Love steadfastly believe that their favorite cheesesteak spot is the only good cheesesteak spot. That's a lot of potential expectation, skepticism, and criticism for Jersey Mike's to face over its selection of the slightly differently spelled Cheese Steak sandwiches. 

The Cheese Steaks are the lynchpin of Jersey Mike's "Hot Subs" menu, and the entry level cheese steaks made with thinly-sliced, floppy beef are just that — entry level. Mike's Famous Philly (#17), the Chipotle Cheese Steak (#43), and the Big Kahuna Cheese Steak (#56) are virtually interchangeable, all sharing the same meat, grilled onions and peppers, and melty white cheese (not Cheez Whiz, which is what you would find on an authentic Philly cheesesteak). The Big Kahuna features even more cheese and more peppers added to the sandwich, creating a lot of unnecessary mush. Frankly, a Philly-style sandwich prepared anywhere but Philadelphia, especially one created under the strict rules of a large corporate entity, just isn't going to live up to the hype.

No matter where it's from or who makes it, a tuna sandwich is going to be polarizing. People seem to either love fish on a sandwich, or hate it — particularly when it's canned or processed tuna, and especially when it's mixed with a whole lot of mayonnaise. But Jersey Mike's doesn't treat its Tuna Fish (#10) sub as a second-class sandwich or specialty item. They purportedly mix it up right there in the store everyday, combining tuna, mayonnaise, celery, and just the faintest hint of mild spice in the form of some black pepper. 

Jersey Mike's tuna salad is served extremely cold (which isn't always a given) and while it's tasty, it can tend to be a little dry. It does garner some love among fans, though. "The big slices of crunchy celery added nicely to the texture, and the additional spices gave it a delightful flavor so that it wasn't bland," say reviewers at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, which ranked the Jersey Mike's tuna sandwich one of the best among the major chains. But with its tendency toward dryness, it's the rare restaurant tuna sandwich that actually contains too little mayo and not way too much.

The BLT is an omnipresent sandwich, appearing on the menus of not only sub shops, but lunch counters, diners, and cafeterias for the better part of the last century (via Sir Kensington's). Not too heavy, but also a substantial and nutritionally well-balanced sandwich-in-a-meal, the BLT's name comes from its main ingredients: bacon, lettuce, and tomato (the bread and customary mayonnaise don't warrant a shoutout in the acronym, it would seem). A BLT isn't going to be too different from place to place, and that's part of its appeal in a fast food sandwich situation, such as at Jersey Mike's. Customers know exactly what they're going to get with a BLT, and Jersey Mike's delivers, offering up a standard, basic sandwich. The Jersey Mike's BLT (#1 on the menu board) comes with bacon, lettuce, and tomato. That's it, and that's all it needs to be. It's a perfectly fine sandwich. Not particularly memorable, but it gets the job done.

The club sandwich, in its most familiar and widely reproduced form following its invention at a gentlemen's club in Saratoga Springs, New York, consists of three layers of bread with two areas for filling (via Tortellini & Co). In addition to cold cuts, lettuce, and tomato, a club sandwich almost always has bacon. It's essentially a double-decker BLT but with turkey or chicken added to make this very large sandwich even larger. As the club sandwich became entrenched in American culinary culture, the word "club" has become synonymous with bacon — see that on a menu and it's an instant indicator that whatever will be ordered will probably also have some salty pig fat thrown in there somewhere. 

That's what Jersey Mike's Club Sub and Club Supreme sandwiches (#8 and #9 on the menu, respectively) are all about. The Club Sub raises the stakes compared to its predecessor, using both turkey and ham, along with some high quality applewood-smoked bacon. Its Supreme relative swaps the ham out for oven-roasted sliced beef, and keeps that bacon. These aren't double-decker sandwiches on toast like the classic version (they're served on Jersey Mike's cold hoagie rolls), and while all the ingredients are there, they just don't really feel or taste like a traditional club sandwich. But that's not to say you won't enjoy them. 

When the casual eater gets a craving for a submarine sandwich, and the taste and image of such an item starts dancing around in their head, it's probably that of the Jersey Mike's Super Sub (#5). This is the quintessential, all-American fast food sub sandwich, the very ideal of middle-of-the-road perfection. It's unpretentious comfort food for which the customer knows exactly what to expect in terms of taste and texture. 

That mild but satisfying taste in the Super Sub comes largely from the otherwise innocuous but creamy mayonnaise and provolone combo. But the kick comes from the three types of ham Jersey Mike's piles onto this sandwich: ho-hum ham, spiced up prosciuttini, and flavor-rich cappacuolo. It may have a generic name, but in its simplicity — this is more or less a ham and cheese sandwich — the Super Sub is superior to most every other sandwich at Jersey Mike's.

According to QSR Magazine, in 2019, Jersey Mike's fully switched over to using pork products raised without the aid of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids and sourced from stateside family farms. The first new sandwich the chain launched under these new methods was the Stickball Special, #11 on the menu (via CultureMap). And it's probably no coincidence that the number looks like a couple of bats used to play stickball, a baseball derivative popular in East Coast cities in the early 20th century. Jersey Mike's claims that so many people so frequently ordered a #2 with salami subbed in for the cappacuolo, that they went ahead and put it on the menu. 

Derived from the Jersey Shore's Favorite, we'd argue it's also a little bit better than its predecessor. Ham and salami just go together, complimenting each other very well with their different levels of meatiness, saltiness, and spice. The provolone lays a nice foundation of smoothness. But really, the difference is negligible. The Stickball Special and the Jersey Shore's Favorite are so much alike, that they're nearly impossible to separate or compare in terms of quality and composition, and you can't go wrong with either one. 

At Jersey Mike's, a chain of sub shops immortalizing and modernizing the classic Italian deli meat-loaded sandwich, the best entry on the whole menu could only be the one that features the most Italian meats (all of them wildly different but perfectly complementary pork products) and proclaims that heritage in its name. And as such, The Original Italian (#13), towers above every other sandwich at Jersey Mike's while also serving as the restaurant's signature sub and thesis statement. "Nothing says Jersey Mike's more than our Original Italian," the restaurant boasts. 

Reminiscent of the subs served in a small, independent shop (like Jersey Mike's itself once was), it's made standard with provolone cheese, a foundational ingredient upon which is built layers of four separate and just-salty-enough meats: pepperoni, salami, prosciuttini (black pepper spiced ham), and cappacuolo (cured pork shoulder). One can taste each of the many distinctive cold cuts individually and also notice how they interplay with the other meats as well. Order it "Mike's Way" to really bring it all together, so you can enjoy the most classic sub sandwich, exactly the way it's meant to be.