Top Round Roast Beef is One of Mid-City’s Best New Lunches
It will probably surprise nobody to learn that there was a time, before my lunching was professionalized, when hot roast beef sandwiches served with fries from a beachside shack was one of my once a week go-to lunches. Kelly’s Roast Beef on Revere Beach was about a ten minute drive from the radio station I worked at, on the north shore of Boston. And we made that drive often. Not just for roast beef sandwiches of course. On the days you were feeling particularly rich there were also lobster rolls, whole fried clams, and pretty much everything else you’d expect to find at a New England seafood shack. Some days it was cold and windy, and keeping the pelicans away from your fries was a constant struggle. But sitting out on the beach on a work day eating a roast beef sandwich is still probably one of my top 10 weekday work lunches of all time.
So imagine how excited I was to hear about Top Round Roast Beef, the new roast beef sandwich place on La Brea and Olympic. In the month or two since they’ve opened I’ve heard a lot of talk of it being a “better version of Arby’s”. But I have no love or nostalgia for the bologna of roast beef. I was hoping it would return me to the beach.
Posted at 10:37 am, July 17th, 2013 under Mid-City/Miracle Mile, Roast Beef, Top Round Roast Beef.
