Submarine Express

Lovely independent business! Sub express offers delecious sandwiches and french fries as well as friendly faces! Charming and delicious! It’s good to know that they only accept cash.

This is by far my favorite sub shop. I’ve been eating here for decades. The portions are huge, everything is fresh as can be, and the taste is perfect. I really like the bread. I once bought a 3 footer for a party and everyone raved about it. Tom, the owner, is a great guy who seems to know just about everyone. Highly recommended!

Family friendly local sub shop– cozy and retro feeling. Lots of meat on the subs, but not a lot of topping options (lettuce, tomato, onion). Bread was soft and fresh, but a bit heavy — wheat or white only. Staff was friendly, and food was fast. A good option to the sub chains.

Fantastic everything! Lots of homemade specialties like the meatball sub, which I highly recommend. The chicken filet is the best I ever had. The corned beef and pastrami are also excellent. Homemade soups are awesome. You really can’t go wrong with anything on the menu, all of it is great… including the service!

This place is amazing. Just moved to Mt. Prospect earlier this year and was so happy I am close to this place. The owner is super nice and very friendly. Subs are amazing, best I’ve ever had. Would highly recommend Submarine Express.

Pretty decent. i’ve been going here for a long time. The owner, Tom, is friendly and cheerful.
He is willing to go off-​menu if needed.
It be a little better with olive oil on the salads and subs, but this is a small point.
Good portions, good food.

Not sure why I can’t give the 5^th star but I just can’t.
This place is simply solid. Nothing fancy but what they do is exactly what you’d expect from an independent sub shop. Portions offer great value, and has arguably the best potato salad around.
Love to see a local shop succeed. Try this place and you will likely agree.

Great Sandwich place in Mount Prospect. Fast service. The Submarine sandwich is my fav. I have tried some of the other subs and all have been good. But whatever you order, make sure to get the Fries.

Love, love, LOVE this place! Best non-​chain sandwich joint around. Fast and friendly service truly stands out.
Corned beef, roast beef, and turkey subs are delicious. Bread is soft and baked fresh. A side of potato salad will also knock your socks off. The chili is fantastic on a cold day.
Submarine Express, you forever have my patronage. :-)

This place is legit! The bread was a bit doughy but that could be because I got wheat instead of Italian. The oil and hot peppers are spot on. Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a quick sub.

Have been coming here for years! Best hot corned beef ever!

Going all 5. Subs are flat out delicious. Fun to sit at the window and watch the trains go by. An under-​appreciated suburban gem.

Fantastic ribeye sandwich. Friendly environment. Large portions for the price. Will definitely be back the next time I’m in Mt. Prospect

Great food and great service. I’m here all the time! The owner is very personable and makes you feel like a regular each time. My family has known him for years. You get a better value ordering the largest sub and splitting it, it’s huge! Our favorite is the Turkey sub.

If you love submarine sangwiches, grinders, hoagies, food, life, air, being alive today, then you will love this joint. I am a sangwich aficionado and I’ve had my share of the best, this place does it right. My first visit I got the usual1st-​time assortment of sangwiches for 1 person: I got the Submarine, Corned Beef, Pastrami and Roast Beef. The Submarine is like their Special and it most certainly is a special sangwich. The meats and the cheeses put on the Special are all top-​notch and only enhanced by gardinera. The Pastrami was well done, not too salty, great pairing with the cheese and veggies. Roast Beef was spectacular and the hot gardinera set it off, however, the Corned Beef sangwich, with lettuce, onion, tomato and hot gardineral was of the charts! The bread they use at Submarine Express is the best I’ve had yet (sorry Windy City Subs) and it makes the whole sangwich. Next up on my next visit: Italian Sausage and a charbroiled burger (the smell of them being grilled up was killing me when I was there!)

Yup, 10 thumbs up

Great subs in Mt Prospect. Skip Subway and the other chains, this place puts their institutionalized crap to complete shame.
Now true, you aren’t gonna get an authentic «Elmwood Park» Italian sub — it’s Americanized — but his version of the Italian sub is tasty. The rest of his subs are equally as good or better. And, as others say, the value factor is very high. A king (not the super) can feed me at lunch with so much left over I don’t even mind if my wife mooches.
Ask Tom to make you a pepper and egg. He throws the green peppers in the deep frier and gets them soft, it’s an interesting take on a Chicago classic.

If you buy the 6 inch Sub here, you should be aware that it is not 6 inches, it is more like EIGHT inches!
Everything here is better and bigger than expected. The buns and meats are fresh and generous (you know the ads for subs you see from other companies that have piles of meat and when you go to the actual store you get a single slice? Well Submarine Express is the real thing).
The fries are one size (huge) and more crispy than some might like but a favorite of my wife. Tom, the owner, is a great guy and you should take him for what he is – straight forward, blunt, and in the true Chicago style. I love to stop in and chat (go Cubs/​Bulls/​Bears!)
The portions are so generous you can get a 6 inch and a fry, cut the sandwich in two and two people that aren’t outrageously hungry can have a filling lunch.
Service is also very fast.
If you’re driving along Northwest Highway and looking for a really good, quick lunch (away from the chain places) this is where you should stop.

i paid $ 6 + change for an infant sized turkey sub.
It had everything in it and fed my family of 13 for 14 days straight.
it was a miracle sub.
My 13 month infant now stands 6 feets tall and can slam dunk on his old lady mama.
My 33 year old virgin daughter gave birth to twins who look nothing like us and cry with a french african accent.
My 4 albino quadruplets now sport 1 foot high afros and pop and lock to Miley Cyrus tunes all day long.
this is miracle meat.
at least it felt like this in my belly.
when you hongry. this place is like an oasis on a dark dessert highway.

Fine old-​fashioned subs and other fast foods from a family-​owned and frankly fantastic non-​franchise sandwich shack.
Cash only.
Friendly folks that always have the Cubs game on. Daily newspapers line the counters. The place is very cozy.
They have a choice of sizes for your sammies… Hungry, really hungry, and food-​coma.
I tend to get the meatball sandwich in the food-​coma size. Big juicy meatballs that are very tasty and drowned in a thick red sauce and mozzarella served on a toasted french roll. Amazing.
The other subs are good, too. The bread is very soft with a thin but crispy crust that won’t tear up your gums.
Plenty of parking in the HUGE lot right behind the place. The small lot on the corner of 83 and NW Hwy is very deceiving.
A couple of picnic tables outside for you to enjoy your food whilst people watching. The train station is directly across the street so traffic can get pretty gnarly during rush-​hour or any time a train rolls thru town.