Reuben or Patty?
 

After careful consideration and an exhausting and near-endless pilgrimage, I am sorry to announce that I will no longer be eating Reubens. I've searched high and low for a decent one and have concluded that they are not to be had in my little corner of the world.

I will now embrace the patty melt!

What's your preference? Reuben or Patty? Explain.

What's a patty melt? Sounds like a cheeseburger.

Patty Melt and a Bowl of Veggi beef soup on a cold day ,

Yes Glatt its a cheese burger , but better yet its like a grilled cheese sando with caramelized onion , and a Thinnish burger patty , some times a Schmear of mustard , some folkes make them on Rye bread , I prefer Texas Toast ,
Oh and the cheese can make a Big difference , I prefer SHARP Cheddar.

Slurp some soup , dip the sando , YUMMMMMMY !!!

You're making me hungry.

Make your own reuben! Homemade are the best. I make mine with rye bread buttered and toasted on the grill layered with corned beef white cheese and strained sauerkraut ,all melted to perfection with a fresh crunchy Claussen pickle on the side.

Patty melts are good too though.I like mine with lean turkey smothered in caramelized onions and mushrooms.

Penn Station reubens aren't half bad. Not authentic, but still worth a nom.

I make my own reubens, too. I use Swiss cheese and dark rye bread. There's also a New York style deli here in town that makes pretty good reubens.

Rubens Need to be made with Light and Dark Swirled Rye bread

Patty Melt, never really liked the Reuben, not much of a sauerkraut fan.

Frankly, though, the Patty Melt comes off as a little effete. Go for the Bacon Cheeseburger, Double if they got 'em.

Reuben fo sho! Didn't you read about how hamburger is even more disgusting now than ever?? Off my menu...

Plus I love any sandwich with russian dressing...

No sauerkraut, no reuben. Without the piquancy of the kraut, it's a corned beef sandwich and only a corned beef sandwich.

A history of the sandwich

So Brianna, why don't the local offerings, er, stack up?:3eye:

It's a tossup.

hmmm...same hairstyle

I like both, but most restaurants can't get a Reuben right. I like my patty melt with extra done onions and med-well patty...american cheese, please (I know it is all just as disgusting as you can get!) :)

corned beef special.

greasy or soggy bread. Not the correct corned beef to swiss ratio OR the dreaded coleslaw instead of kraut.

what is this I don't even

A bad Reuben is not worth eating. I'm sure the same is true for a bad patty melt. All things being equal, I'll take a Reuben.

My hebrew name is Reuben. If I am what I eat, then I must eat what I am - Reuben.

Besides, since all of the meat in a Reuben has already been pre-cooked, there is no danger from an undercooked Reuben. An undercooked patty melt can wipe out a city.:vomit:

I like a nice Reuben. If I was gonna eat a grille swammich, though....it would be a Super Bird.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQT7S6wr8z...eysandwich.jpg

mooks cut this one wrong.....and I can't find one that's proper...but at least the ingredients are visible.

tomato, swiss (?) turkey??? is that bacon i see?

yes,yes,yes,yes...on sourdough. Do you recognize the Denny's plate?

I like the Reuben at Jason's Deli. http://www.jasonsdeli.com/restaurants

Here's a gallery of Reubens: http://www.rowlandweb.com/reuben/gallery.asp

No - I didn't. Denny's? Is that better than Waffle House?

5 times better. put your zip code in here

Hey, Exton Diner is on there.... I've eaten there a few times...

I caught it!

It gets all As on the report card

http://www.rowlandweb.com/reuben/reviews.asp

how could they NOT have sampled a NY Reuben....?

I agree. A real jewish deli somewhere at least... Maybe should have gone to Hello Deli in Exton, before it closed.

I never had a reuben at Exton Diner, but everything else there is pretty mediocre.

Bread and Bagels here in Cherry Hill is purported to make a nice dry Reuben. (not grilled)

I've only ever had their Chicken Salad Hoagie...and that's the best I've had...largely because the bread is so fantastic......

That dry reuben from Arby's wasn't half bad... or maybe I was just hungry enough to not care.

Have you tried Lion Share yet? They're in Restaurant.com and we tried them for the first time a few weeks ago. Good food. The salad bar was fresh, clean, and well stocked. It sucks that they demolished the original building when they remodeled. I think it dated back to the 1800's or earlier.


BTW, what's all this 'dry' crap? A real Reuben should have sauce coming out of the sides when you push down on the bread.

dry meaning that the bread is not grilled....or soaked in butter. still the same inside....

The reuben at Famous 4th St. Deli, where MB works. They like to stack their sandwiches about 3 times higher than need be (lots of to-go boxes are used). Haven't tried this particular sandwich yet, but I have sampled the house-made corned beef by itself. Sooooo gooooood...

patty melt, for sure. Rye bread + grilled onions = yum. but sauerkraut is good for you (probiotics) if you can stand it.

Reuben over a patty melt, always.

They didn't actually demo it, it's still there under all the teal and mauve vinyl. But really, how depressing...

If you're in that area, eat at Ron's, there's really nothing better around in that price range.


Blue that reuben looks amazing.

We haven't been to Ron's in years. I still remember their Reuben Stromboli. Interesting.

I think Ron's had traditional and pastrami Reuben's.

Looking over their menu from the link, it looks like 3 kinds of Reubens, but no Reuben Stromboli. Also, they've slightly changed their name. I guess the 'Schoolhouse' was getting in the way of all of the drinking.

Maybe we'll go back to Ron's one day. I still like the menu at Drafting Room. Our friends liked the beer selection at Drafting Room, as well as the fact that they allowed sampling.

BTW, I still can't believe those are the original walls at Lion Share. I guess it's possible to repoint 19th century stone, but it really looks like they tore it all down and replaced it with fake stoneface.

Reuben. There's a great one over at Clyde's. :drool:

Take a closer look. I drove past it twice a day during the renovation.

ƒuckers are makin' me hungry and I had to have a Lebanon Bologna and Muenster on Rye ...

I finally tried the gigantor Famous 4th St. reuben pictured above, about an hour or so ago. I'm still sitting at a table in the deli, not able to move.