North Shore Roast Beef appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
North Shore Roast Beef Sandwich · Boston
Boston's regional sandwich obsession: thin-sliced rare roast beef on a sesame onion roll, lavished with BBQ sauce, mayonnaise, and American cheese (the famous 3-Way).
The North Shore roast beef sandwich (so named for the towns north of Boston) descends from Kelly's Roast Beef in Revere, which opened in 1951 and codified the form: a soft sesame-onion roll, thin-sliced top-round roast beef, BBQ sauce (Kelly's house recipe), and the option of mayo and American cheese. The 3-Way (with all three) became the well-known order. Pauli's in the North End brought the format into downtown Boston.
Where to eat in Boston:
- Pauli's
- James Hook & Co
- Saltie Girl
- Anna's Taqueria