Three-Way Roast Beef
A North Shore Massachusetts roast beef sandwich, rare and paper-thin, on a grilled onion roll. The counter counts three accents: American cheese, mayonnaise, James River barbecue sauce.
Italian Beef & French Dip
Super Beef
The North Shore three-way scaled up: rare thin-shaved roast beef on an onion roll, dressed with James River barbecue sauce, mayo, and cheese, loaded big and built to hold.
Sliced Beef on Garlic Bread
St. Louis builds roast beef on garlic bread, not a plain roll: garlic-buttered Italian bread under thin beef and molten Provel, broiled open-faced. The beef reading of the Gerber.
Roast Beef Sandwich
The plain national roast beef sandwich: rare beef sliced thin against the grain, on bread, with horseradish. No jus, no soak, no gimmick, the baseline every regional version departs from.
Pastrami Dip
Los Angeles Jewish-deli style pastrami on a roll with au jus; Langer's and others.
North Shore Roast Beef
Rare round shaved thin and piled on an onion roll, kept dry and dressed three-way with James River barbecue sauce, mayonnaise and cheese: the North Shore answer.
Italian Beef
Thinly sliced, seasoned roast beef simmered in jus, on Italian bread with giardiniera (hot) or sweet peppers.
Italian Beef (Dipped)
The dipped Italian beef sends the whole assembled sandwich back into the jus before serving, called wet, soaked, or dipped at the counter. Al's #1, Mr. Beef, Johnnie's.
Italian Beef Combo
A Chicago Italian beef with a grilled Italian sausage laid in alongside the shaved seasoned beef; the two-protein combo order from the Taylor Street beef-stand tradition.
French Dip
Thinly sliced roast beef on a French roll served with au jus for dipping; disputed origins between Philippe's and Cole's.
French Dip with Cheese
A slice of Swiss between beef and roll turns the dunk into two surfaces against the same jus: dunked bottom, sealed top, dial moved but still alive. At Philippe's it adds seventy-five cents.
Beef on Weck
Thinly sliced roast beef on a kummelweck roll (caraway seeds and coarse salt) with horseradish and au jus.
Beef on Weck with Horseradish
Beef on weck with the horseradish grated fresh and laid on thick: the standard Buffalo sandwich with one lever pushed to its limit, racing the minutes before torn root loses its sinus heat.
Arby's Classic Roast Beef
Slow-roasted round shaved off a slicer onto a small sesame-onion bun, dressed only with Arby's Sauce and Horsey Sauce. The Raffel brothers' founding menu item, on every counter since 1964.
Arby's Beef 'n Cheddar
Thin-sliced roast beef under pourable cheddar cheese sauce and sweet-tangy Red Ranch on a toasted onion roll: two liquids on one bun, Arby's signature specialty since 1978.