This case report deals with a patient who was readmitted with a bilateral submandibular swelling after having received primary surgery due to gastric adenocarcinoma 6 months before. After bilateral submandibulectomy both glands were diagnosed histopathologically as metastasis of adenocarcinoma. This is the rare case of a submandibular gland metastasis and the first case of a bilateral synchronous submandibular gland metastasis from gastric carcinoma.