Oooooohhhhh,
THIS is a roast beef sandwich. Â (No more cold, grey sandwiches for me!) Â I finally get it:
Warm, thinly sliced to order, stacked high on the super, slightly pink inside and very very tasty. Â Grab a sandwich and head for the beautiful drive along the Kank - makes for a perfect Fall New England day my friends.
Cash only. Â Outhouse only. Â Great roast beef only.
The same great beef just a few hours North of the Border. Mind you a Super Beef at this location does not come on an onion roll; which defeats the purpose of a Super but it's still tasty and delicious beef. The toppings for your roast beef here are also limited, unlike the locations all over MA (Peabody, Salem, Woburn, Saugus, etc).
So if you get that hankering for a North Shore roast beef and are in the White Mountains, this is the place to be! It's seasonal so if you are there in the late Fall and Winter months, sorry, you're out of luck...
I am a carnivorous female with a discerning palate for roast beef. Â This place tickles my meat-eating fancy.
I went for the rare, regular roast beef with the BBQ and horseradish sauce on the side. Â I also ordered a side of the spicy, curly fries. Â To go.
I had the pleasure of enjoying a tender, rare roast beef delight cradled between two fresh, lightly buttered sesame buns. Â Each bite was better than the one before...the beef was sliced thin and the six ounce portion was generous.
The fries weren't so much spicy as flavorful. They came out piping hot lightly covered in a seasoned batter that added a yummy crunch.
The customer service was perfunctory. Â I didn't feel like they were falling over themselves to please but they sure were polite. Everything I would expect from a no frills stop serving up great beef on a bun. Fast, friendly and in a paper bag.
Reasonable, too. Bring the green here, kids. Cash only.
Don't let the outside keep you from entering. Â We stopped in one of the local shops to ask where we could get a sandwich. Â The local owner told us we had to try the "world famous" roast beef sandwich at Bill and Bob's. Â We had pass by earlier and walked right on by. Â The place is set back from the road across a dusty parking lot that has tables outside for dining. Â We agreed that if there was room inside, we would order. Â Â Lucky for us there was a table available inside. Â This was definately worth the trip! Â It is perfect portion sized heaven not to mention sharing an order of sweet potato fries made for a pefect lunch.
Review Source:This place is AMAZING their roast beef is to die for. ALWAYS have their special sause. I normally get a super, it's pretty big. The place is in a nice little blue hut. Me and my family always stop here when we are up in Lincoln camping, it's a must. The ONLY reason I took a star off is because they are closed in the winter! When I'm up there skiing in the ski season I can't get any Bill and Bobs!
Review Source:Yelpers: Where's the best place to get burgers?
Local: Â Burgers... You want the best meat you've had in your life?
In my head: Â Was that a rhetorical question? Â Is the answer ever "no"?
Bill & Bob's was indeed famous. Â At least down the street, but I think all of Lincoln is "down the street." Â Entering immediately before us was a pair who looked like they ate here quite a bit, so I figured we were in for a treat. Â The roast beef was indeed delectable, and sliced melts-in-your-mouth thin. Â The onion rings were faboo, and the sweet potato fries were (sweet) potatolicious. Â Two things to note, however:
* I'd skip the BBQ sauce. Â It came highly recommended, but I prefer me a sweeter sauce, and it just distracted from the roast beefy goodness underneath.
* If you're pretty hungry, get the "super." Â They're not ironically named where the "big" is the size of your head and the "super" is a joke. Â A big is about average-sized in my book. Â Then again, I could have a piggy's book.
Definitely check this place out if you ever find yourself in Lincoln, NH. Â The prices and the food are both about as good as you can ask for. Â The smelly Appalachian Trail hiker was probably an anomaly.
Remember those old commercials with that feisty white-haired woman who'd demand, "where's the beef?"
Well someone better send her a memo, because I think we've found it!
I mean, these sandwiches are piled high with tender, thinly sliced roast beef. And they are economical. Only a few bucks each. Add a side of crispy fried onion rings and salty sweet potato fries and you've got yourself a clogged artery...I mean a meal.
Tourist: Why, look at that quaint blue shack. Let's pull over and see if it's in the guidebook.
Tourist #2: Nope, nothing listed. The location doesn't even have a number in the address.
Tourist: Wait, is that really a Porta-Potty behind it?
Tourist #2: Well regardless, I think we should stop. I'm pretty ravenous.
Tourist: *shrug*
(They enter the hut, agape at the cheap boon dock prices.)
Tourist #2: We'll take two of the specials, with onion rings.
(Tourist secures one of six tables between humpty dumpty and stinky hiker who's been on the Appalachian Trail since April. Two big roast beefs, cheese and BBQ sauce emerge on a blue plastic tray.)
Tourist: This might be the thinnest sliced roast beef ever.
Tourist #2: Indeed, but it tastes like a shoe sole.
Tourist: These onion rings are damn fine.
Tourist #2: I like em thicker sliced.
Tourist #3: That's why y'all shoulda ordered the sweet potato fries.
Tourist: Coulda, shoulda, woulda. At least the pit in my stomach's filled.
Tourist #2: Crap, now I really gotta use the bathroom. Porta-Potty?! GAH!!