Padow’s Hams & Deli

My favorite place for an after work sandwich. The Rueben and Sailor sandwiches are great. A shame the Willow Lawn location is no more, but I’m glad this one is close to home.

This is my favorite sandwich shop. Love the chicken salad sandwich. This is one of the only places I can get country ham.

I stopped in here to grab lunch while waiting for appointment. It’s okay. The staff was friendly enough. The sandwich was good. It’s a standard sandwich shop. Nothing super fancy, just a good, solid, sandwich.

I LOVE this locally owned sandwich shop. My favorite is the egg salad which is one of those sandwiches that you either love or HATE. Padows definitely makes it yummy!
This is a great grab and go place to get a quick sandwich if you are trying to avoid fast food but still need your food FAST. You walk up, order your sandwich, grab a drink and a side (and they have plenty of sides like all flavors of chips, potato salad etc.), pay and wait for them to make it. It comes out wrapped and ready to go with a pickle.

Service at Padow’s should only merit a two-​start rating, but the ham truly was tasty. My mother ordered a holiday ham over the phone and was greeted by unfriendly staff. Upon picking up the ham for her, we were met by a very unprofessional employee who barely asked us how we were doing. The store’s employees’ personal coffee drinks were also placed, opened, in the deli case, which is both unprofessional and unsanitary. The owner seemed very skeptical that we had already paid for the ham as well. This review will certainly seen picky, but for a restaurant that prides itself on quality service and food, it did not meet these expectations. I unfortunately will not be returning.

This is an old school sandwich shop. I particularly enjoy the Padow’s club sandwich with Swiss cheese. All the ingredients seemed really fresh on both our visits. We’ll keep coming back because the food is good and the location is near the soccerplex.

They put 1 slice of roast beef on my sandwich. One. The sandwich, a water, and a small bag of chips was $ 10. The staff seemed nice enough though. Definitely would not recommend.

Great sandwiches and quick, friendly service. I had the club and my husband had the Italian. Both were great!

Great food good service — simple sandwiches and sundries — easy to get in and out quickly — great combos tht fill you up!

My wife wanted something to drink and we were right next door to Padows. She orders a drink and did a little browsing. The place looked clean and organized and the staff was friendly. We didn’t get anything to eat this time but when I return I will have to try something. I did notice the prices were on the high side but if the food is good it will be worth it. So there isn’t much else to say about getting a fountain drink, except it made my wife happy and that’s a good thing.

The Short: Padows Hams & Deli has decent sadnwiches at exorbitant prices.
Padows is stuck on the corner of a small shopping center at the end of the Powhite Parkway by Brandermill. It’s very plain décor and a confused sense of whether it’s a deli or a convenience store. Peanuts, candy bars, bags of chips, and a token amount of Pork products fill some shelves in the back.
The customer service is sad — there were 5 employees working during my visit, none of whom acted as if they cared at all about the customers in the building. The order taker was disinterested in what sandwich I wanted, didn’t know what was actually on the Reuben, and seemed confused when I asked if the bread was made in-​house (it wasn’t). The checkout counter employee was standing away from the counter using her cell phone. Purses and random office supplies where messily arranged with behind the registers — it’s called the «back office» for a reason.
The food was a rather sad portion for the price — I paid a total of $ 9.33 for a medium fountain drink and a Reuben that came with only a pickle. The reuben came served on a disposable foam plate ($ 0.012 from a local food service supplier — I checked). The corned beef itself was okay — a little tough, but not bad. The rye bread was okay, but came from a bag. The dill pickle was surpridsingly crisp — they might have actually cut it. The thousand island was okay and the saurkrat crisp, but I don’t feel like this was worth $ 9.33. For $ 5 I would have a lot more satisfied with the food.
There is open wifi here SSID: NETGEAR, but it may not actually belong to this restaurant.
Would I come back? Nope. There’s just no redeeming qualities here. Poor service, confused concept, okay food, overpriced.