My friend, Dave and I would be driving along the east coast of Boston and then up to Portland, Maine with our home base in Saugus.  We picked up the rental car, spent a couple of hours sightseeing and I had become so hungry that even seeing food signs along the roadways were giving me stomach pangs.   Passing the “Leaning Tower of Pizza”, was pure torture.

Along the coast of Revere Beach is my go-to restaurant for a hearty roast beef sandwich.  By the time we had arrived, I could have eaten a whole cow, but it was much easier to order a delicious, melt-in-your-mouth roast beef which has made Kelly’s Roast Beef famous for years.  The restaurant opened in 1951 when Frank McCarthy and Raymond Carey invented the roast beef sandwich and it continues to serve thousands of locals and tourists each year.

According to the story, both McCarthy and Carey owned a hot dog stand  and worked together at a local restaurant which catered weddings.  So when the restaurant ran out of food for a wedding celebration, the two decided to take the leftover roast beef from the restaurant, put it between two slices of bread and invented the Original Roast Beef Sandwich.  The wedding mishap resulted in McCarthy and Carey going into business together and today they have  twelve locations throughout the coast of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida.

Kelly’s Roast Beef loves to make their customer happy, so their menu is made-to-order, just the way you like it….and I like it just the way it is.

Have you been to Kelly’s Roast Beef?  What did you order off of their menu?  I would love to hear about your visit if you would kindly leave a message in the comments section below.  Wishing you many Happy Travels!

Where to Eat: 

Kelly’s Roast Beef
410 Revere Beach Boulevard
Revere, MA  02151
Telephone:  781 284 9129