Subs and Subs: Rolex Submariners & Iconic City Sandwiches

This Bellaire Boulevard shop was an Antone's until 2018, when the family running it lost the rights to the name and put their son's on the sign instead. The sandwich didn't change: the Regular is imported ham, salami and provolone with mayo, pickles and chowchow, the old Houston po-boy.

Antone's second sandwich shop, on West T.C. Jester in the Greater Heights. Order the Original: ham, salami and provolone with sweet pickles and chowchow, the cabbage-and-green-tomato relish that makes it a Houston po-boy and not a New Orleans one.

A sit-down Vietnamese spot on West 19th in the Heights whose bánh mì take liberties. The one people come back for is the bo kho dip: braised beef shank on a baguette with a cup of the stew's broth for dunking, French-dip style.

The name behind the Houston po-boy. Antone's started on Taft Street in 1962 and its Original is still the blueprint: ham, salami and provolone on po-boy bread with mayo, dill pickles and a spoonful of chowchow, served cold. This shop sits on San Felipe just inside the Loop from the Galleria.

The original Roostar, on Gessner where Long Point runs out in Spring Branch. The one to get is the chopped rib-eye bánh mì, the kitchen's nod to bulgogi, with pickled carrot, cucumber, cilantro and a mild garlic mayo.

A family jeweler on Westheimer just inside the Loop, near Highland Village, with a showroom given over to Rolex. It's also a Rolex service center, so you can drop off the watch you already own in the same place you'd buy the next one.

The Houston store of a Dallas family jeweler, tucked into River Oaks District off Westheimer. It opened here in 2015, its first shop outside Dallas, and it's on Rolex's own locator as an official retailer.