Nick’s Old Original Roast Beef for 1/4 Pound Roast Beef Sandwiches and Meaty Gravy Fries
As a food (and especially SANDWICH) aficionado who resides in Philadelphia, it was pretty much blasphemy that I hadn’t been to Nick’s Roast Beef. Everybody, and I do mean everybody, raved that it was *the* place to get roast beef in Philly. I tried to go and struck out a few times due to various reasons, but was finally successful one sunny Saturday afternoon. My husband and I planned to get our sandwiches to go and grab a picnic table at the nearby FDR Park with our dog.
We pulled up to the bar/restaurant with the old-school neon sign and double parked, of course. When in South Philly… I walked through the door, unsure what to expect and saw a small bar with a few old timers watching the Phillies game. At the end of the bar was a little workspace where two or three guys prepared sandwiches with finesse. There was a doorway through which there seemed to be a larger dining area, although I never made it that far. A friendly older woman (hostess? waitress? some combination of the two) asked me if I wanted to order sandwiches and pointed me towards the guy taking orders. It’s always nerve wracking at these places. You want to seem “hip” and “in the know” when you put in your order ( a la “wiz wit,”) so you scope the menu in advance and figure out just what to order and the right way to say it. It’s just so Philly.
Posted at 10:18 am, June 13th, 2012 under sandwiches.
Name: Janeane
