when most tourists think of chowing down in brooklyn they think pizza they think nathan's
but today we're going to show you a food that only locals know about the hot roast beef sandwich and
we're going to be visiting three spots that have been in business for over 50 years i hope you
brought your appetites we're about to eat i'm born and raised in the city you haven't experienced
brooklyn unless you've tried these roast beef sandwiches these hot roast beef sandwiches
john's daily established in 1968 we're ordering world famous johnny roast beef
some other sandwiches are named after sopranos characters entourage characters i type a place
can we get a nine inch hero of the johnny roast beef
with uh yeah with a gravy on the side smells like thanksgiving dinner back here oh
something kind of special when you see the birth of the sandwich you're about to eat like the
whole process that was exciting bring your nice clothes for this this place is always pack one of
the most popular spots amongst the locals you have to try this spot i don't know if there's
any way you can eat this and not make complete mess out of yourself let's do it let's do it
everything everything is just the way it should be what makes the sandwich so great is the gravy like
you can't go to any deli and get a sandwich with this kind of gravy gravy's fantastic that roast
beef is so juicy and you take that first bite into it the bread is so soft because it's like
swimming in the gravy the juice comes from the meat that's where it gets the flavor coming up
he's taking a bite out of brooklyn every time we we try this here you talk to a lot
of new yorkers and the famous sandwiches that come to mind obviously pastrami corned beef
chopped cheese bacon egg and cheese bacon egg and cheese but how come the roast beef sandwich isn't
on that list i honestly don't know the answer to that question there's always ghosts flies under
the radar i like stuff that flies under the radar imagine this place was in the east village how
much more expensive it would be how much crazier it would be i mean we're one mile from coney
island a lot of people would go to the beach and stop here on the way to pick up some sandwiches
first you think that's a good idea i can tell you that there's no sandwich that comes anywhere close
to this sandwich close to the beach yeah you have your nathan's you have some pizza shops but
definitely nothing like this you can take the d train hop off your two stops to port coney island
grab some lunch and continue on that would be an amazing path and if you walk a few blocks that
way the lmb is over there too and the end train is there too which is one stop boy from coney island
and the beast pimoni gardens we covered it one time and my best brooklyn pizza video good spot as
well there's a lot of like classics here in south brooklyn that just do not get the attention that
they deserve i think spots like these are extra special because over my 25 years in brooklyn a lot
of these i guess family spots have closed and the ones that have survived are truly special
look it off your thumb come on i know you want to you're a monster you're a gravy monster
rolling roaster open 1970 and from the exterior doesn't look like anything has changed since then
wow it's like the brady bunch if you come here on your birthday you could spin the wheel and win as
low as five dollars up to 25 dollars too bad it's not my birthday we can we pretend i don't know
they check they're gonna check ids yeah one roast beef well done two roast beef and cheese well done
this looks nice this looks nice all right let's get one of these old school booths
here how do you feel when you come in here what kind of memories does
this bring back for you this place is so nostalgic so many memories
coming here are my birthdays to spin the wheel call me here late nights this place is uh probably
the only place that's open at like 3 a.m seeing the shenanigans that happen here if you were a
cool high school kid where you wanted to hang out probably the only place you were allowed to hang
out at that time this is like the the boardwalk lemonade like the super super sweet sugary version
i don't like comparing places but this does remind me of the one i get from nathan's they
have a saying here you can put cheese on anything you please and i decided to put some of the cheese
whiz on it i know you said it's not really your style i mean yeah this is not the fresh mozzarella
from john's deli this is the fast food version of it i would say if you were drunk this would
be a pretty good choice to uh i don't know maybe try to prevent the hangover the next day
definitely a different different experience than john's i actually i'm surprised how much
i like this bread the cheese whiz it's a it's a really strong flavor kind of like overpowers the
roast beef a little bit but i am a fan of philly cheesesteak like that so for me i like it but i
could see how it wouldn't be for everybody how's yours mine's great i was also about to comment on
the bread the bread is actually really good it is a little different from the hero bread but it's
still amazing and yeah without the cheese you really do taste the beef the gravy is amazing
here too i actually read that apparently there was an arby's across the street from
here at one point in time and it closed down no shock arby's cannot compete with this no
brennan and carr established 1938 this is the oldest spot on the video and it
kind of looks like you're eating inside of some cottage upstate
this feels like you could take a date here this gives me that vibe it's like
we're going to a nice steakhouse so what we're going to do is dip it a little shake it out
put it back on the plate take the wall i just dip the meat only i'm gravy on the side
i got a double dip
get the bottom of the wall a little quick dip double tip dip the meat
don't rinse it out leave it on top take the roll
dip it then before there's a little bit of gravy on it making a double dip
the kfj style which is on it comes on two it comes on two plates as you can see we dip the wall again
put it on the plate get the meat go right on now you can see there's a
lot of gravy sitting on the plate on the top now we got a kfj style one more gravy
okay this is the double dip thank you
thank you i love everything about this place so far i like the waiters are
really friendly and they're so knowledgeable about the food and the way they're dressed
it's like we're having a nice steak dinner but
instead we're about to feast on hot roast beef sandwiches this is dripping right now
this is something i have like a pool of probably the most delicious broth on earth right now here
just melts in your mouth wow the bread is so moist and soaked and you take that bite
and you get all of that freshness and the juiciness this is a once in a generation kind
of place a menu here really doesn't change that often and this is just a classic spot to come to
if you're in south brooklyn a lot of regular customers that come back for me i pretty much know
their orders i don't even have to ask what they're gonna have if they decide they're gonna change it
up on me i tell them not gonna serve them anymore how extreme this is it's a jfk knife and uh kfj 0:08:25.360,1193:02:47.295 but kfj
a kmj kfc it's a knife and pork chop can't pick this up that's how moisty
it is i'm gonna try it here we go it's like barely any bread in it
you said that melt in your mouth like this literally melts in your mouth
it's soft it's wet it's not too long
i can't believe it took me 10 years living in new york city to finally
try some of these hot roast beef sandwiches but it was worth the wait
all right tell me in the comments how you would have your roast beef here
at brennan and carr i'm curious and thank you so much for watching a piece of new york city
history here in brooklyn hope you all enjoyed until next time