Sub Conscious Subs

5 Reviews on “Sub Conscious Subs”

• Peter

  WOW!! Real NY SUB!!!. I was told that there are best sub shop in Raleigh. So me and my friend went to check it out. I had a home made Roast Beef Supreme with Sauteed onion,Lettuce and tomato and my friend had the grilled buffalo chicken with FRIES!! ( this Sub shop has Fries!) The food was DELICIOUS!! WOW!!! WILL BE BACK FOR SO MORE!!!!

  January 8, 2014, 10:43 pm

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• Another Day In Paradise

  The perfect alternative to the Sunday Brunch. I detest Sunday Brunch. That’s why the missus and I have a simple plan for Sunday mornings. We drop the kid off at Grandma’s and head straight to Sub-Conscious on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. The place is usually empty and funereal quiet (save the TV in the background) which is the way we like it.On the menu are all the normal things that a college sub shop would typically carry – sandwiches, fried bits of this or that and pizza. I’ve never tried any of the fried bits or the pizza. It’s just not fitting. No, one comes to Sub-Conscious for one thing – the subs. And they are brilliant.This stuff in the middle – the sandwich fixin’s – are where most restaurant of this type concentrate their efforts. And at Sub-Conscious, meats, veggies and whatnot are fresh and well prepared. But that’s not what makes their offering so much better than the next guy down the street. It’s the bread. They get theirs from upstate New York. It’s crispy without being crunchy; light but still full of flavor. Indeed, the outside crusts crackle with every bite.The two we typically order are the cheese steak and the Italian. Both are prepared with lightly toasted bread. The contrast of the warm and slightly crispy bread to the cold ingredients in the Italian is striking and makes for a marvelous mouthful of sandwich happiness. The cheese steak is a sandwich utterly without pretension. It stand on its’ own in near perfect balance – not too much steak, not too much cheese. Caramelized onions add both to the aroma and to the sandwich’s umami. It is arguable as good as I’ve ever had anywhere.

  January 5, 2011, 11:31 pm

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• Katiejnc

  This is a great sandwich place. the bread is what really makes the sandwich. give it a try you will not regret it.

  December 16, 2010, 3:14 am

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• D.P.

  Yuck! Will never eat there again!. Freaking disgusting.I’ve driven by here probably hundreds of times living in Raleigh and decided to stop in today.I get it…it’s an old college sub shop. It’s been around forever. Kind of a hole in the wall feel. I get that. That’s ok. The problem is their food!The pictures outside on the windows showed several different subs and specials. Noticing the meatball on a few, I figured I’d give it a try.The bread is toasty. Check.The meaball special for $5. Terrible.Worst flavored nasty sandwich I’ve ever had. The meatballs were this odd gray color (looked like boiled meat) and they were very tiny. They came no where near to half-way filling up the sandwich. I asked to add lettuce & banana peppers and was charged extra. Anyways, I got this god-aweful sandwich back to the office. I decided to take a picture and upload it.Maybe this is a cool place for some people. Not for me…And I worry about the people who like this. Any positive reviews cannot be from the food. They’ve gotta be from some local friends of the owner OR some college kid who walks by here on their way to class and their only food choices are 1) A cup of dirt or 2) a subconscious sandwich. Anyway, I wish I would have kept driving like I had done about a hundred times before.

  November 23, 2010, 6:04 pm

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• Daniel Rodriguez Dela Viuda

  After eating here I could never go back to subway. The bread is fantastic and the Philly cheese steak is the best I’ve ever had. Highly recommended.

  July 18, 2010, 3:46 pm

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