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WEST END DONUT & DELI By Chuck Van Drunen
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February 2018
hen asked to review West End Donut & Deli subs, I must admit I was delighted and nostalgic. In the early 2000s, I worked in a west side Gallup warehouse helping make custom snowboards for the company CustomCraft (now called customcultsnowboards.com). We often worked deep into the night and invariably would need post-midnight nourishment. West End Donut & Deli was our solace where we often devoured copious amounts of the “buttermilk” donut loafs. On those late nights, our crew would often get into discussions with the lone employee…Zacka. These philosophical discussions were the reason the editor’s notes in the Gallup Journey are often called “Thoughts from the West End”. Yet while I ate many a donut in those years, I can nare say I sampled their other famed offering: the mighty sub sandwich. Being a bakery, West End, of course makes their own sub bread each day in white or wheat offerings and likewise available toasted or traditional style. Any of their 6” subs is enough to satisfy most reasonable appetites ($7-$9 with chips), and a standard 12” sub is mighty force to a burley brother or sister in caloric need ($10-$13 with chips).
