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If you like your city sandwiches tailored by a chef with a fine-dining pedigree, follow the signs to This Way Canteen, which opened August 23, on the corner of Bridge and Phillip streets.

Stephen Seckold, executive chef at House Made Hospitality (which owns a stable of venues at Circular Quay, including the upmarket Lana restaurant), has crafted a sandwich line-up that offers "a modern Australian spin on a New York deli".

If pastrami topped with beetroot hummus, pickled onion and habanero mustard doesn't jump-start your lunchtime, there's drunken chicken, ramen pork and plant-based rissole on the planned line-up. There's also a rotating salad menu.

The latest venue from the House Made group, This Way Canteen has the advantage of sourcing fresh bread from sister venue Grana Bakery down the hill.

Spilling into the forecourt of the Museum of Sydney, it was the sunny north-facing site that sealed the deal.

While the canteen's interior takes inspiration from eucalyptus trees, the cork floors are a nod to department store cafeterias of the 1950s and '60s.

Open Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat-Sun 9am-4pm.

Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney, thiswaycanteen.sydney