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There are a lot of people who simply won't go to a place where there is a "This is what you order here" schtick. I don't mind them, if I know it going in. I wouldn't go to the Billy Goat Tavern in downtown Chicago if I didn't want "a double cheeseburger, Coke, chips, [i]no fries!![i]" I know going in that that's what you order. I know you don't go in and ask if they do a plain chicken sandwich and sweet potato fries. I also tend to take people from out of town there, but only if I know they're okay with "double cheeseburger, Coke, chips, no fries!" Primanti's is that kind of place, too. They have a signature sandwich and a schtick, and that's what they're known for. You go for the schtick, not because you want to Sally Albright the menu to death.
Hopes, you are making me hungry My favorites are the imported sardine or the colossal fish. They have a location in Mt Lebanon, across from Galleria and the Fresh Market. That location looks so much better - nicer - than the downtown or the strip one. It actually looks like a rustic barn, something you would find skying in the Alps. I like it.
Me too.
I would try it just to be polite, but fries along with hamburger patties and bread in one bite sounds pretty gross.
Yes on the coleslaw though!
I live in Fort Lauderdale and they opened one here across from the beach. It is the nastiest looking restaurant here and I will not go inside let alone eat there.
My uncle was the GM of Kauffman's Department store and took me there when I was a kid.
When I started working in Oakland last fall, I decided that Primanti's had to be on my to do list. I got the standard sandwich with the burger on it. Honestly I was really unimpressed. The things was just a big soggy bland mess. The only thing about it that I did like was the slaw. It was fine to go and experience that bit of Pittsburgh culture but I don't plan on a repeat.
Next on my agenda is to try the overpriced hot dogs at The O.
I lived in Pittsburgh off and on for several decades in total, so sure, I've had Primanti sandwiches. The best is having one very late at night at the original location in the Strip District after a night of punk rock. Goes down good under those circumstances.
Here's my favorite Primanti's story. I was at a Bruce Springsteen concert at the old Civic Arena. Chatting with the people sitting around me before the show, I found they were visitors from New Jersey who had come to the 'burgh for the sole purpose of seeing the E Street Band. One of them asked me where to find "one of those sandwiches with the french fries on it." I was living on the South Side at the time only about four blocks from a Primanti's outlet. So I told the guy where to meet me after the show so he could follow my car across the river and I would deliver him to the restaurant. Turns out half the section of concert-goers were part of his crowd and I ended up leading a convoy of cars over to 19th Street (is P's still there?). Of course, Primanti's had no trouble feeding this crowd of boisterous Jersey people. The visitors insisted on me accompanying them inside where they paid for my meal and demanded I tell them about every Bruce show I had seen in NJ. Their consensus on the Primanti sandwich was "not as good as a real Philly cheesesteak, but suitable post-concert food." I've never seen those people before or since, but it's the kind of thing that happens when you're a Springsteen fan. Fun night brought to me by french fries on the sandwich.
When in Pittsburgh, do as the Pittsburghers do. (You haven't lived until you've tried the tuna salad Primanti sandwich.)
When I started working in Oakland last fall, I decided that Primanti's had to be on my to do list. I got the standard sandwich with the burger on it. Honestly I was really unimpressed. The things was just a big soggy bland mess. The only thing about it that I did like was the slaw. It was fine to go and experience that bit of Pittsburgh culture but I don't plan on a repeat.
Next on my agenda is to try the overpriced hot dogs at The O.
No, it's the FRENCH FRIES at the O that are the draw. Something about the vintage of the grease ...
Try to go on a night no one gets shot or stabbed. Which is to say, not Saturday.
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