This question comes from…me.

Where’s the best place one can go and find guaranteed fresh fish for purchase in this land-locked city?

Pic: A candid photo of me grabbing a quick, local lunch in a particularly frigid and salmon-infested part of the Hooch early last week.

I can’t say that I’ve “eaten my way around Atlanta”.  Heck, I can’t even say that I’ve “eaten my way around Decatur”, what with my penchant for frugality and my fine-I’ll-do-it-myself desire to bake my own bread.  But I do eat my fair share of sandwiches.

And with that pointless background, I give you the backstory.  This weekend, for the first time in a few months, my wife and I journeyed to Alon’s (Morningside, not Perimeter) for a sandwich and a fashionable, carbonated beverage (btw, they sell Coke made with sugar there!).  And while I’ve always enjoyed Alon’s sandwiches, this particular one was noticeably lacking.  The roast beef was minimal, fatty, and as rare as a budget deficit.

Having lived within walking distance of this Alon’s for an entire year prior to my Decatur indoctrination, I know they can do better.  But this latest disappointing effort got me comparing this Alon’s sandwich to the many consistently excellent Sawicki’s sandwiches I’ve enjoyed recently; the roast beef, the shrimp po-boy, the turkey with avocado.

And I wondered, where can one purchase the best sandwich in Atlanta?

An elusive question no doubt.  Eliminating every place that doesn’t use freshly baked bread is probably a good start.  Within Decatur, I’ve eaten my personal favorites at Sawicki’s and Duck’s.  But how do these two places stack-up to the rest of Atlanta?