6a00d83451b91969e201676329291c970b-200wiMmm, lunch. While Restaurant Week has us thinking about languorous dinners, we’ll still be spicing up the workday with delicious midday morsels. Luckily for us, a handful of eateries are offering lunch deals, including some delectable sandwiches.

At August First Bakery, fresh loaves emerge hot and crusty every morning — as do a new bakery creation, rosemary rolls. For their $10 Restaurant Week lunch deal, they’ll pour you a cup of soup du jour, then follow it with any sandwich on a rosemary roll, from their famous BLT to turkey, ham, curried chicken, salmon or tofu salads. The sweet finish is a chewy double-ginger cookie. We might need a shot of espresso to go with that.

City Market will roll out a unique Restaurant Week creation: the “Spicy Spring Sandwich.” They’ll smear toasted sourdough bread with spicy pepper relish mayonnaise and hummus, then top it with salami, provolone cheese, tomato, and banana peppers. Ka-pow! (Vegetarians can leave off the meat.) A half-sandwich is $5.99 and a full order is $7.99.

To find out more about August First, click here.

To learn about City Market, click here.

This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2012.

Corin Hirsch was a Seven Days food writer 2011 through 2016. She was also a dining critic and drinks columnist at Newsday from 2017 to 2022, and contributes to The Guardian, Wine Enthusiast and other publications. She’s spoken often on colonial era drinking and is the author of Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England, published by History Press in 2014.