Rogue Sarnies: wood-fired sandwiches in Bethnal Green, open late on Fridays

Rogue Sarnies is a sandwich shop, which sounds like the wrong thing for an evening title until you look at the hours.

Checked on the venue’s own site on 9 September 2026. Sunday to Thursday, 9am to 4pm. Friday and Saturday, 9am to 10pm. Two nights a week it is not a sandwich shop at all, it is somewhere in east London that is open when you want feeding and most kitchens have stopped.

Where it is

Rogue Sarnies HQ, 263 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF, in Bethnal Green, off the Hackney Road end of E2. It is a small kitchen and the operation is built around collection and delivery as much as sitting down.

The wood fire is the difference

The sandwiches are cooked over wood fire, which is not a detail most sandwich shops bother with and is the whole reason this one has a following rather than a lunch trade. It is the difference between a filled roll and something cooked to order over flame.

The menu changes, and the operator runs new sandwich releases rather than a fixed list, so the thing somebody recommended to you may not be on when you get there.

Using it as an evening rather than a lunch

The Friday and Saturday late hours are the point for anyone reading this site. Nine in the morning to ten at night is a thirteen hour day and the back half of it is the part nobody expects, so it works as the thing you do after a drink in E2 rather than instead of one.

There are also platters and a gift shop, and the kitchen is small enough that the operator says plainly it cannot guarantee against trace allergens, which is worth reading if that matters to you.

What else is out that way

Bethnal Green covers what is on nearby and Shoreditch is the next stretch west. London at night covers the evening more widely, and after dark lists what is still open once this shuts.