Sandwich Truite Fumée
A river fish, not a sea one: smoked trout is leaner and gentler than salmon, so the sandwich adds a cold-butter carrier and a squeeze of lemon, then keeps everything else quiet enough to taste it.
Baguette Poisson
Sandwich Thon-Tomate
The southern French tuna sandwich without the mayonnaise: drained tuna, thick slices of salted Provençal tomato, olive oil, a baguette by the sea.
Sandwich Thon-Mayonnaise
Tuna from a Breton can, mayonnaise spooned through until the flakes bind, mounded into a split baguette. The chilled boulangerie line that travels in printed paper.
Sandwich Thon-Crudités
The French boulangerie's salad-and-fish loaf: a bound tuna floor under tomato, cucumber, lettuce, sometimes egg, eaten cold within the lunch hour.
Sandwich Tellines
On the Camargue coast a tellinier rakes a kilo of wedge clams off the wave line at low tide; an hour later they open in a persillade pan and go into a split baguette with the juice.
Sandwich Tarama
Tarama (fish roe spread) sandwich; Greek influence.
Sandwich Surimi-Crudités
Surimi-crudités: the cheap French baguette built on the pink-and-white crab stick, an industrial pollock paste with no crab in it, plus raw vegetables and a lemony mayonnaise.
Sandwich Saumon Fumé
Smoked salmon sandwich; often with cream cheese.
Sandwich Saumon-Avocat
Salmon with avocado; modern combination.
Sandwich Sardines Grillées
The Sandwich Sardines Grillées is built around fresh sardines cooked over fire, not lifted from a tin. Meatier and smokier than the canned kind, it tilts toward lemon, pepper, and bright char.
Sandwich Rollmops
Unpin the skewer and a rollmops springs loose: a herring fillet soured in vinegar, wound around onion and gherkin. The bread's only job is to give all that acid somewhere soft to land.
Sandwich Moules-Frites Style
The Sandwich Moules-Frites Style makes a plate portable: shelled mussels in their wine-and-shallot liquor, hot fries tucked into the same loaf to brace the bite and soak the spill.
Sandwich Maquereau au Vin Blanc
White wine-marinated mackerel on bread.
Sandwich Lamproie
Lamprey (eel-like fish) prepared à la bordelaise in sandwich; rare delicacy.
Sandwich Hareng-Pommes de Terre
Herring with potatoes on bread.
Sandwich Brandade
Brandade de morue on bread; salt cod purée.
Sandwich Brandade de Morue
Salt cod and potato purée on bread.
Sandwich aux Sardines
Sardine sandwich; canned or fresh grilled.
Sandwich aux Moules
Mussel sandwich; Northern coastal specialty.
Sandwich aux Fruits de Mer
Seafood sandwich; crab, shrimp, or fish.