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Serious Sandwiches: Kelly's Roast Beef

Photograph from *reesie on Flickr There is something great about eating by the ocean, and there aren't many better ocean-side sandwich shacks than the original Kelly's Roast Beef on Revere Beach, ten miles north of Boston. It has everything you'd expect a seaside New England food shack to have—Lobster roll, fried seafood, hot dogs, etc. —but as the name suggests, the —roast beef sandwich is the star. There are two sizes—small and large—but the only difference between them is the amount of roast beef that Kelly's piles on. Either way, you end up with a generous amount of thinly sliced, rare roast beef, so much so that the sizes could easily be renamed "a good amount of beef" and...

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9 Comments | Posted by Zach Brooks, July 11, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: Massachusetts, Revere, roast beef, sandwiches, Serious Sandwiches