How often do you come across a real treasure? Once every couple of years? Well, the Chandler AZ treasure of 2007 is Lee's Sandwiches, and I wish them much success.\n\nWhy I Give Mad Props to Lee's Sandwiches:\n1. They have outdoor seating with mist-ers to keep customers cool, even at 110 degrees.\n2. Add a statuesque actor in trademark John Wayne Gasey white makeup & a gondola canal inside, and you'd have the Venetian. Then again, maybe not, but there is a mini concave rotunda built into the ceiling, painted with the colors of the wind.\n3. They have a baguette factory. Watch stainless steel machinery crank out French style loaves, while you and your chums enjoy an affordable meal in the dining area.\n4. Eighteen different flavors of gelato.\n5. They have a Deli Manjoo cream cake counter, with colorful carrying cases for to-go orders.\n6. Fresh bread, fresh whole cilantro and thinly sliced fresh jalapenos joined forces to awaken sleepy taste buds.\n7. The stylish Lance Armstrong style rubber bracelet which was affixed to each sandwich to keep the wrapper on tight. Okay, it was just a sixteenth of an inch wide and only came in white. What do you all want for nothing? A rubber biscuit?\n8. The low low prices.\n9. My meal provided me with a front row seat to the putrid-pudding-stampede, at no additional cost.\n\nWhy I Put Lee's Sandwiches on Blast:\n1. They don't take plastic... but they do have a shifty looking ATM against the wall.\n2. The sweetly pickled julienned carrot sticks which were strategically placed on my meatball and bbq pork subs. I didn't find the extra crunch to be an appealing augmentation.\n3. Some of the aromas emitted from behind the counter were not altogether inviting.\n\nFinally, I found the cashier to be very friendly. When I walked in with only a Hamilton, and the bill came to $10.11, guess who covered my shortage? That's right, Nicole the benevolent cashier.\n\n~Swoop
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