Penn Lake Roast Beef

Weird place.  Wally's Roast Beef had it's head chef start his own business and this is it.

So, there are two Roast Beef places within a half mile stretch in Bloomington and they both are delicious.

Kind of a weird, not clean but not dirty place.  By no means do I think it's dirty but it reminds me of being a vacated Walgreens.  Not too fancy but a great place to go for a quick BBQ sandwich for lunch.

Being a new opening in a dead strip mall the former cook for Wally's for 20+ years he was gone out on his own and stuck to what he knows and people in the area are familiar with Roast Beef and slowly branching out with some new surprises.  Wally's extras such as au jues, etc are free.  I think the portions are the same and when you grab a 2-fer your ahead of the game.  Personally I love the Philly.  Based on both the Roast beef's and Philly's he is using the same supplier's given that he has been Wally's cook for 20+ years your going to get a pretty good Wally's experience that your used to.  Problem with Wally's were they were closed weekends and evenings so the only time was Lunch which posses a bit of a challenge given that I work but, am a Bloomington resident.  They have expanded hours well into the evening.

Tonight I ordered the Philly (Must Try, I love the spicy horseradish and au-jus (both free extra's).  I ate in, the place was empty but, had a CONSTANT stream of take-out's.  For some reason I thought it was Friday (Clam Chowder day), I asked if he had clam chowder and he immediately said yes and brought my food to the table.  Upon further reflection it's Thursday and I have to go to work tomorrow, tomorrow is clam chowder day.

I love this place.  I can't wait to see what other items he adds to the menu.  They recently discontinued breakfast services.  At this time I am unsure of their hours, I grabbed a stack of the take out menu's but, gave them all out before I realized I handed out my last one.  I will try and recon and snap some photo's.

It looks like the cook at Wally's has started his own business in the strip mall across from the old Wallys. It's virtually identical to the old Wallys with the same food.

There's some changes, they do breakfast starting at 7 but other than that it's the same. The beef seems to be cooked for longer and there seemed to be less meat in my sandwich than I'm used to.

They've just opened and it's not the slick operation that Wally is. The cash register was playing up when I was there and the meatloaf sandwich took forever to arrive. Hopefully they can work out the snags since it's closer to work and less busy than the new Wallys.