Subway Plant Patty (VE)

The Subway Plant Patty costs £8.19 and comes to 424 kcal in a six inch, and it exists to answer the Veggie Delite's one weakness: protein. This is the meat free order that eats like a full meal, carrying as much protein as the Ham, and it is marked (VE) by Subway itself.

The patty is a plant based burger style patty, seasoned and substantial, and the rest of the sandwich follows the counter script: bread, cheese if you want it (which un-vegans the build), the free salad rail, and sauce. Checking the bread and sauce is what keeps the whole thing vegan; the patty alone does not.

The taste is savoury and burger-adjacent, with a firm, bite-through texture no vegetable sandwich achieves. Toasted, it is convincingly close to a hot burger in sub form. This is engineered food and tastes like it, in the good sense: consistent, seasoned, built to satisfy rather than to imitate a specific vegetable.

It suits vegans who are actually hungry, vegetarians bored of cheese, and meat eaters on a flexitarian day, which is a wider audience than most menu items can claim. The catches: it is one of the pricier sandwiches, and at roughly double the Veggie Delite's calories it is a meal, not a light option.

The comparison that matters on the Sandwiches menu is exactly that Veggie Delite: half the calories, a fraction of the protein, two price steps cheaper. They are the two ends of the meat free question, and which one is right depends entirely on whether lunch needs to last until dinner.

On value, the protein figure justifies the price against the other meat free route, and it holds its own against the cheaper meat subs too. One honest footnote: everything at Subway crosses the same counter, so vegan by recipe is the claim, not vegan by preparation.