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eef on weck is a Taco Mac Galla’s Pizza, Wings, Subs & More indigenous Numerous Locations 2 Locations: Bto Buffalo, NY. It’s This beer giant has been doing the Buffalo 1. 2986 Johnson Ferry Road a beef sandwich (most use ) with a smear wing thing here in Atlanta for 31 years. Marietta of fresh on They get the sauce just right. 770.642.0777 Kummelweck bread, which They recently started doing “Beef on 2. 4849 Peachtree Road is unusually dense, adorned Weck Wednesday” at all locations — and Chamblee with caraway seeds and they do it well. Roast beef is employed for 770.500.3184 kosher salt. Unlike the fiery Buffalo this sandwich, fairly generously I might add. This Buffalo-style pizza joint with two chicken wing, beef on weck The bread, though nice, isn’t nearly as heady outposts boasts all things Buffalo including never really took off in the as the version at Barkers. beef on weck. I believe the bread is shipped south, for whatever reason, The wonderful thing here is that you can in from Buffalo and is the best part of the

EATS but that doesn’t mean there sandwich. Even after being plunked in the isn’t a place or two right here in the ATL that au jus, it’s sturdy enough to hold together. serves a version The roast beef is certainly piled on as of this Buffalo advertised — but it’s tough and favorite. In leathery, stringy to the bite fact, here during all three of my are three such visits to the Chamblee

tom places: location. Maybe there’s better luck to be had in Marietta. Barkers Red Hots Though after three 3000 Windy Hill, SE, Suite B-6 miserable attempts Marietta in Chamblee, I’m 770.272.0407 not inclined to Owner Glen Robins make the longer is the Soto of the hot trip. dog world minus the prickly attitude. His I was met with passion for perfection cocky attitude finds him standing during one visit, over the hot coals which is really every single shift okay with me so carefully applying perfect char to each long as you got the and every dog. No schtick to back wonder his hot dogs it up. are so darn good. Barkers sells more than just hot dogs. At this unassuming Windy Hill storefront you’ll also find the best beef on weck in the city. Robins wisely chooses grilled flank over roast beef. He cooks it [email protected] s to a juicy medium — or, just a tad under ker Bar — over those sizzling coals. He then slices k at f Wec it and gives it an au jus. It’s topped off with Beef o a sinus-clearing layer of horseradish. The insanely delicious bread is made in dig deep for a beer pairing. I recommend house — loaded with caraway seeds and a slightly sweet malty brew to wrap around enough kosher salt to make your cheeks the meat and contrast that spicy horseradish, pucker. yet hoppy enough to stand up to the salty, Is there anything this little hot dog shop doesn’t do right? caraway seed layer on the bread. Wish they served this sandwich every day.

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