Murphy’s Deli

Reviews

• Anthony H.

  star star star star star_border 11 June 2026

  Ordered a salad and an avocado turkey wrap. The wrap was pretty good and what you'd expect from a made-to-order place, but in the time it took for one clerk to build the wrap the other clerk took longer just to give us the salad dressing for the pre-made boxed salad. *shrug* Was she making it from scratch in the back room?

• Daniel L.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 6 June 2026

  All the yelpers bashing the cobb salad from this location of the chain are the Real MVPs in my lunchmeats department because their reviews saved me from going down that sad path like they unfortunately did.
  
  I was only here in the first place because I had a coupon and saved four dollarinis - four big ones. Nobody tell the Jimmy Johns I am cheating on them and telling all of my friends about it, like one of my former bosses in the consulting world did bragging to all of his coworkers about our receptionist he had the night before his wedding, to a different lady. A true class act.
  
  Sane people usually do not pair nice accolades (as they do with other downtown eateries, some even one floor up in the Park Shops like Leaf & Grain) with the Murph dog. The pecking order for "whatev" sammich shops usually has Subway down at the bottom thinking about their life choices with that yoga mat bread, then Murphy's, the French Corner, and the Corner Bakery barely above them, then maybe Zero's and the Alonti, and then finally you get into god tier lunchmeat sammich experiences with your Quiznos, Potbelly, and Jimmy Johns at the tippy top of the pile.
  
  But still, a coupon is a coupon and you have to use it before it expires or they win, and that is not happening in this house, sister.
  
  Why in the HECK is there such a long line for the Murph dog? Oh, they just move hella slow, that is why. The meatball shoppe you can see around the Dr. John cornder and the Potbelly behind were churning people in and out quickly. Meanwhile me and the same five increasingly-irritated gentlesirs that all made the same bad coupie-related decision were just milling about, waiting for salvation. I waited a really long time for a marginal sammich, at best, because of that dang coupon. Thug life, yo.
  
  New Orleans is one of my favourite American cities so I like anything even lightly New Orleans themed, up to and including drinking alcohol anywhere you want and telling the cops it is a go-cup, because they really should know about that in Iowa with all that corn and nothing else.
  
  Murph dog's claim to fame such as it is, is from the muffaletta - also known as a muffy because that is easier to pronounce around people who really wind their panties into a twist over French and French-like pronunciation - oui oui oui hon hon baguette. They call this their signature sandwich. They even brag about it on the to-go bag (not as much fun as a go-cup in the Marigny.)
  
  The name of the sandwich comes from the bread, known in Sicily as "muffuletta" with some armchair theories that the bread was named after a baker back in the boot, but as far as I know nobody seems to have tracked down the specific guy in historical records, so he must be a lizard person and/or time traveler obviously, there are no other reasonable explanations why a brother with such a weird name escaped documentation for posterity when he brought something so nice into the world.
  
  Since this was coupie incentivized and we're in the Park Shops downtown you can't really compare this muffy to Napoleon House's muffy as apples to apples, those are apples to oranges. Just like comparing Napoleon House's to Cochon Butcher's.
  
  Murph dog's muffy contains smoked ham, salami, and provolone cheese with a homemade olive mix on toasted bread.
  
  How does this one stack up? I think I got an entire bottle of mayo on this. There was so much mayo and I did not even ask for any of it. The bread was toasted so hard it was blackened in part of it. The sammich was mostly olive mix by sight, smell, and taste when it wasn't mayo. It was so much olive the cashier at the Phoenician next door would tackle you if you tried to take this much olive out of the olive bar.
  
  The meats and cheese were only a lingering distant afterthought. Like it would have actually been more flavourful if you were sitting on the lap of a guy who was daydreaming really intently on smoked ham, salami, and provolone cheese and that aura really just washed over you making you think of smoked ham, salami, and provolone cheese by osmosis, but it wasn't your original thought. This is basically how the film Inception worked as far as I can tell from the Inception themed episode of Rick & Morty with Scary Terry, a true fashion icon.
  
  I know some Tremé enthusiasts would want to find the person that made this muffy and slap them across the mouth with an opera glove for doing this to the muffy. But even they would cut a bit of slack for the sensible coupie to get you in the door, so you can't expect the world on a silver platter from a faux-French chain a five hour drive across the state line from the Bywater.
  
  Giving two stars rather than just the one is my charity for the week.

• Holly F.

  star star star star star_border 2 June 2026

  I typically eat at this restaurant about once a week. I always get the same thing, falafel sandwich. The falafel is good, pita and veggies on point and tahini with extra pickles to top it off. I'm vegan, and it's one of the few options I enjoy from the Park Shops restaurants. Price is reasonable in my opinion.

• Karin P.

  star star star star star_border 28 May 2026

  This was one of the few places open in the mall food court. It seems like a very convenient location for a lot of businesses in the area.
  
  The menu has a lot of options for salads, soup, wraps, and sandwiches. And they seem to have several healthy  (at least healthyish) options. The ingredients are displayed like at a Subway and they looked fresh.
  
  I have a Mediterranean wrap and I really liked it. The tortilla and ingredients were good. It was enough to fill me up when we hadn't yet eaten that day. My husband got a buffalo chicken wrap and he said it was pretty good.
  
  The staff was nice and everything was clean. We didn't have to wait at all, granted we were the only people there. Still it was nice that everything went so quickly.
  
  The restroom nearby were also clean.

• Evelyn C.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 27 May 2026

  I ordered a cobb salad via the Ritual app.  It's supposed to have avocado and cheese.  It had neither.  Of course, I didn't check it before I left -- but I shouldn't have to.  Also, the worst caeser dressing ever.
  
  I wanted to try some place different.  I won't be back.