I have to keep reminding myself that’s your signature at the end and not a comment on what’s above it.
Dammit, I was beaten to the punch as I’m tending to my schnitzel. (No, that’s not a euphamism.)
It’s too common all around the U.S. to count as lesser known.
Toronto-style Souvlaki (Greek Souvlaki served as a fast food / greasy spoon dish).
Souvlaki on a bun. Typically served with onions, tomatos and tzaziki.
Souvlaki dinner – with big chunks of char-broiled meat, Greek salad and your choice of fries / potato slices, rice, pita bread. I expecially liked how John Anderson’s prepared it, with a big square of Feta cheese on top of the salad.
If I had to choose one favorite dish in the world, it would be this.
It’s all over. I can get it at national fast food chains.
I vaguely remember a chain of pizza places in the northwest that may have been called Gay '90s, but that would have been in the 1970s. I was in Olympia in the 1980s and don’t think I ever heard of Dirty Dave’s.
If I’m ever out that way again, is it worth checking put?
Mrs. Martian and I split a half, so I got a bit over a quarter for a late lunch/afternoon snack. That was plenty.
A joint near me sells a Gym Shoe though it’s just Italian beef & Gyro meat. Which makes more sense to me anyway and adding corned beef seems weird… the whole point is combining two classic Chicago area sandwiches.
Anyway, one was enough to hit my quota of Gym Shoes. It was good but probably took three years off my life.
I’ve actually never had one, as it all just seems too much to me. I feel the same way about a combo at a beef joint (though I have had that): Italian sausage and Italian beef together on one sandwich.
Here’s one of the more definitive articles on the Gym Shoe/Jim Shoe/Jim Shoo, if you’re interested. (With a further link at the bottom with additional discussion if you want to geek out.) Actually, I think I had the Italian beef part wrong as that article reminds me – it’s normally roast beef as I’ve seen them in the couple places around here.
Well, it’s not life-changing or anything, but they do a pretty solid thin-crust pizza and they make a decent lasagna.
This is basically true. I’m 2.5 hours from Binghamton, in NY’s Hudson Valley, and I’ve never been able to get a spiedie in a restaurant around here: nowhere except in and immediately around Binghamton. What’s a little weird is that I can buy spiedie sauce (State Fair brand) in supermarkets here.
So I do, and make my own. Not quite as good as what you can get in Binghamton, to be sure, but a good deal more convenient.
I always thought New England cooking was blander and less imaginative than the upper Midwest. Three cheers for the land of Grape-Nut pudding!
I was never tempted to try toasted ravioli, St. Louis pizza isn’t really my thing, and the St. Paul sandwich, which I’ve never heard of, sounds fairly appalling; but I do like slingers very much and I have had some excellent barbecue in St. Louis.
I’m intrigued about your cliche: I’ve never lived in St. Louis, but I’ve also quite enjoyed visiting the city over the years: the Arch is neat, the Forest Park museums are excellent, the ballpark isn’t one of the best architecturally but it’s pretty and the atmosphere is great, and we loved City Museum on our last visit. Among others. I’d go back again in a heartbeat.
Dammit, Qadgop, now I want one, too. The supper club in Green Bay to which I used to go regularly with my parents serves an Oostburger (though they call it their “JJ Burger,” for whatever reason), but my parents don’t go out to eat much any more. I’ll have to suggest carryout from there when I next go up.
Or from Judi’s in Oostburg, on your way there. ;-D
One more that I don’t think has been mentioned: beef on weck, Buffalo’s answer to Chicago’s Italian beef, both of them hard to get beyond its metro area’s limits in my experience.
The answer is “Both, please.” Don’t make me choose between them.
Oh, heck yes!
Ooh, fell in love with that on a trip to Buffalo back in 2010.
Every time I’m in Buffalo, another one bites the dust. Yum.
When Buffalo Wild Wings first launched, they were “Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck,” commonly abbreviated as “BW3.” They eventually dropped the beef on weck sandwiches, and the extra W in their name, sometime in the '90s.
If you ever get to Toronto, the absolute best souvlaki can be found at Esquire Souvlaki Steak and Grill. East side of Victoria Park, just south of Sheppard Avenue East.
I did not know that! There was one (1) restaurant here that used to have a version of beef on weck, but they closed up at least ten years back. Other than that I’ve never seen it on a menu anywhere other than Buffalo “and environs". Thanks for the info. I actually don’t know that I’ve ever eaten at a Buffalo Wild Wings–certainly not before about 2000 anyway.