Restaurant Spotlight

End Zone Deli
by Tere Kidd

End Zone isn't really all about sports; it's all about the food. And, be careful! Doug Davis puts so much of the good stuff into his sandwiches, you'll have to be careful or you'll end up wearing some of it. Think: Carl's Jr. commercial where the sexy beauty, all curled up in the sheets, is suddenly eating this giant hamburger and a lot of it is dripping on those clean white sheets? Be forewarned. There's enough goodness in Doug's sandwiches you won't want to miss a single morsel, and you will have trouble keeping it all together. There's so much of it.

Anyone who has ever had a Subway sandwich knows if you want any real meat or cheese on it, you're going to pay extra. A lot extra! And, you still won't come close to the quality and taste of End Zone.

Doug's most expensive sandwiches are only $6.49. You can get half a sandwich as low as low as $3.99. They have names like pig skin pastrami, touchdown turkey and running back roast beef, but a Doug's sandwich by any other name is still a Doug's sandwich with more meat and cheese than you'd ever expect. Two words: savory and plenty.

Doug makes all the salads himself - fresh every day. Every sandwich comes with a choice of red potato, spiral pasta, cucumber, or elbow macaroni salad. If you're in the mood for something like a chef's salad, you can order the super bowl: turkey, ham, salami, provolone over tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, carrots, on mixed greens with vinaigrette dressing create a salad sublime.

To be sure the walls are decorated with just about every professional pendant there is. Every team from the San Francisco 49ers to Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders are represented. Even the menu's top and bottom edges are trimmed in mid-line football field markers. It doesn't matter which way you lean when it comes to a sports team; at the End Zone it's the food that counts not the game score.

Doug, who has been in the deli business for 30 years, comes from Orange County. He has owned several different restaurants in Orange County but chose the High Desert for his newest adventure in the culinary arts. A friendly man with a quiet demeanor, Doug enjoys what he is doing and knows the business inside and out. He opened his first restaurant when he was just 27 after spending three years in sales. — Tere Kidd

End Zone is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is closed Sundays.

11850 Hesperia Road
(760) 956-8869