Where is the Best Sandwich in Cleveland, Ohio?
My husband and I have introduced a number of friends to Max’s. It’s now the #1 lunch favorite of the gang. We drive An hour + to enjoy our favorite(s). A couple of them like – and swear by – the reuben. When the herbed- battered onion rings are properly cooked, they’re phenom! The rare roast beef sandwich on rye is to-die-for. Watch the sugar cookies, ’cause a cookie afficionado in our group will attest they are tasteless. The soups have always been tasty. To top the meal, there’s nothing like the Chocolate Macademia Nut Pie, but don’t bother with the cakes. Don’t go here for service or ambiance, but do try the many food options; the menu is huge.
Dinner on Monday night was slow and the food preparation was poor. Steak was ordered medium, delivered well-done. Ordered onion rings and received fries; out of rings. Shrimp was good. Table was cold with air conditioning blowing down. Dessert was not very good; chocolate cake and carrot cake looked good, but tasted bland. Would not have been happy at half the price. Web site looked better than the actual experience.
Goodman’s is the best-kept West side secret I can think of. To those of us in Brooklyn, it’s an institution. This is the place you take out-of-towners to impress them, though, granted, when you walk in the door, the decor is very, well, 1973. But one bite and you will be bowled over. They’ve got, hands down, the BEST corned beef sandwich you will ever eat. This is not hyperbole here. I don’t know what they do to their meat– something in the spices or in the cooking or what– but it has an unbelievable almost buttery flavor that no other sandwich shop can touch. The sandwiches are huge– maybe 4 or 5 inches thick with beef on fresh soft rye. Denny’s the guy carving up your lunch, and you might catch his father Saul there, still running the cash registers at age 94. The waitress cracks bawdy jokes and slides cans of soda down the lunch counter like they do in movies. Seating is limited, but stop in on a sunny day (the waitress insists the place fills up on rainy afternoons– “
