Nothing on the Subway secret menu is printed anywhere. Each one is an ordinary order with the fillings named a piece at a time, which is the only way the line can produce it. Regulars have been assembling these for decades.
Names do not travel well here. Ask for a Pizza Sub by that title and the answer is usually a blank look, so the words that work are the ingredients themselves. Every build below starts from a sandwich the restaurant already sells.
The short answer
The Subway secret menu is a set of unofficial builds ordered by naming the fillings rather than by asking for a title. Pepperoni with marinara makes a Pizza Sub, and roasted chicken with ham and Swiss makes a Chicken Cordon Bleu. Each is priced as the sandwich it modifies.
Subway secret menu at a glance
$6.49
pizza sub base
$8.99
cordon bleu base
$7.49
spicy nacho steak base
$7.99
tuna melt base
$9.49
sweet and sour base
$8.99
breakfast taco base
Subway Secret Menu Items and How to Order Them
The Subway secret menu leans on three things the line always holds: cured meat, marinara and the toaster. Not one of these builds needs an ingredient the restaurant fails to stock. That is what keeps them orderable rather than theoretical.
Ordering works by description alone. Name the bread, then the protein, then each sauce and vegetable in the order it should go on. Base price and base calories below come from the Subway sandwich prices for whichever sub each one starts from.
Subway Secret Menu Chicken Subs
Rotisserie-style chicken does most of the work here, because it sits well beside sauces the line already keeps open. Chicken Cordon Bleu leans on Swiss and honey mustard, while Chicken Parmesan reaches for marinara and two cheeses. Sweet and Sour barely changes its starting sub, adding one dressing beside another. Autumn Roasted Chicken pulls in bacon, cucumbers and a side of apples.
| Item | How to order | Base price | Base calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken Cordon Bleu | Ask for roasted chicken with ham, Swiss cheese, a few slices of bacon and honey mustard. | $8.99 | 350 |
| Chicken Parmesan | Ask for roasted chicken with marinara sauce, parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese. | $8.99 | 350 |
| Autumn Roasted Chicken | Ask for roasted chicken with bacon, Swiss, green peppers, spinach, cucumbers and BBQ sauce, then add a side of sliced apples yourself. | $8.99 | 350 |
| Sweet and Sour | Order a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sub and ask for red wine vinaigrette alongside the sweet onion sauce. | $9.49 | 430 |
Subway Secret Menu Meat and Cheese Builds
Pepperoni, steak and tuna cover the rest, and all three finish in the toaster. Pizza Sub is the oldest of them and the easiest to describe out loud. Spicy Nacho Steak ends with a bag of chips tipped into the bread, and every swap along the way changes what it declares. All three belong on the Subway secret menu because the toaster does the finishing work.
| Item | How to order | Base price | Base calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pizza Sub | Ask for pepperoni with marinara sauce, provolone, mozzarella and whichever vegetables you want, then have it toasted. | $6.49 | 550 |
| Spicy Nacho Steak | Ask for steak with chipotle Southwest sauce, shredded Monterey cheddar, onions and peppers, toasted, then add Nacho Cheese Doritos. | $7.49 | 510 |
| Tuna Melt | Ask for a tuna sub with cheese and have it toasted. | $7.99 | 510 |
Subway Secret Menu Breakfast Orders
Breakfast opens two more, both leaning on egg whites rather than whole egg. Deconstructed Breakfast Taco piles steak and guacamole into a breakfast sub and keeps the bread. Eggs Florentine Flatbread trades hollandaise for Italian dressing, which lands it closer to a salad than to brunch. Both start from a breakfast sub that is already sold before the lunch trays come out.
| Item | How to order | Base price | Base calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deconstructed Breakfast Taco | Ask for a breakfast sub with egg whites, steak, guacamole, tomatoes, spinach, red onions and chipotle Southwest sauce. | $8.99 | 430 |
| Eggs Florentine Flatbread | Ask for a flatbread with egg whites, spinach, olives, banana peppers, red onions and Italian dressing. | $7.99 | 360 |
Subway Ordering Terms Regulars Use
Two phrases change the sandwich without changing a single ingredient. Old Cut refers to the way bread used to be opened, hollowed from the top instead of sliced along one side. Wing Effect leaves the meat unfolded so the edges hang past the crust. Both go back further than most of the restaurants Subway trades from today.
| Ordering term | What to ask for |
|---|---|
| Old Cut | Ask for the bread cut the old way, hollowed from the top in a V rather than sliced down the side. |
| Wing Effect | Ask for the meat to be laid out unfolded, so the edges hang over the sides of the bread. |
Subway Secret Menu FAQs
About the author
Sophia W. Steadham writes MenuQuill. She is a food blogger and restaurant review expert who has spent years eating her way through American chain menus, from small-town drive-thrus to national roll-outs.