This is a nice sandwich place with a bright and comfortable environment and good quality ingredients, set at standard expat-prices (i.e. ¥¥¥). The service tends to not be overly annoying and they don't seem to mind you camping out with a laptop for a few hours over some coffee to do some work.

The sanlitun beixiaojie branch is a far too often a madhouse, but the new Sanlitun Village store seems a bit more manageable thus far.

Kudos to the kitchen for having a great selection of authentic-feeling stuff such as mortadella, good salamis, tasty cheeses, and pepperoncinos.

The big complaint I have with this place is that the sandwiches, while built with very nice ingredients and very authentic bread, seem to be almost entirely made up of said bread, which might very well be large enough to feed a family of four for a day. We always find that we have to put a tonne of the provided side salad or ketchup inside the sandwich to finally start registering some flavour other than "really bread-y".

The coffee here is good, although at some point they switched from Lavazza to Illy, so it's now a slightly darker roasted coffee. French fries and regular drinks here are nice, and the wine isn't too outrageously priced.

Cut the bread in half, but keep the filling the same amount, and you'd have equally filling and notably more satisfying sandwiches.

For now, we'll continue going to Bocata -- which has a much better balanced sandwich -- for good food, and we'll keep coming back to Panino Teca for a more "Italian" feeling lunch with some coffee and wine.