Foodie Friday: Philippe’s!
Best. Meal. Ever. At. Philippe's!
Welcome to FOODIE FRIDAY! Today’s blog is all about a favorite LA institution – PHILIPPE’S!
We recently had a hankering for some French dipped sandwiches at Philippe’s, which is a famous LA eatery located in downtown Los Angeles. I took a photo of our meal and decided it would be the perfect Foodie Friday blog to wax rhapsodic about this yummy, yummy food! 🙂
To find out more about Philippe’s, go here:Â http://www.philippes.com/
Philippe’s started in 1908 by Philippe Mathieu. He accidentally created the “French dip” sandwich in 1918 when he dropped a sliced French roll into a roasting pan filled with juice drippings. His customer, a police officer, said he would eat the sandwich anyway. The dish was so delicious that the policeman returned the next day with some buddies, asking for Philippe to make the sandwich the same way by dipping the bread in the pan drippings!
The Food Network and The Cooking Channel have done specials on Philippe’s where the staff shows how they make the roast beef. It’s this incredibly complicated process that take days to cut up all the vegetables, roast the meat, and create the “jus” for the dip.
Now some folks claim the original French dip was created at another famous LA institution called COLE’S. Their website is here: http://colesfrenchdip.com/ I have not been to Cole’s yet, but I definitely plan to check them out and blog about their French Dip, too. Hmmm…. maybe I’ll do a taste test! 🙂 Stay tuned!
The photo above features what we always order at Philippe’s. We like to order the roast beef French dip. You have to ask for it “double dipped” if you want both bread slices dipped in the “jus.” OMG. It is so good! I always order mine with blue cheese. We also like the lamb dip too. We also love the cole slaw, the chili, and the pickled eggs. We also pour a ton of their homemade-from-scratch spicy mustard over everything! It’s a lot of food but worth it.
Okay, the down side to writing Foodie Friday blogs is that I am always starving at the end! Hmmm… maybe I should go to Philippe’s now… see ya! 🙂
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Thanks for checking out my Foodie Friday blog! For those of you who have been to both Philippe’s and Cole’s, what’s your verdict on the sandwiches? For those of you outside of LA, what are your favorite sandwich places in your hometown? I look forward to your comments. Until next week’s blogs… Happy Writing! WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT! 🙂
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And now I’m starving too. Oy. It’s like watching Food Network every night…I’m craving ribs and fried chicken by the end of the evening (of course, it’s much worse if I see Morimoto on Iron Chef because there’s no way in heck we can just hop to Philly from IN and a meal at Morimoto’s restaurant would cost a small fortune, I’ll bet).
Have you ever tried the Vietnamese dipped sandwiches? There’s a place in Vancouver that has it, we’ve heard, so I’m hoping we’ll get to try one this summer when we’re there. 🙂
Banh mi sandwiches? Yum. Tried ’em in LA recently! So delish!
I’ll be curious what you think of Cole’s, since I think their Beef French Dip is much better than Philippe’s. But then I think that Philippe’s Lamb French Dip (with Blue Cheese and a dab of their amazing hot mustard) is better than Cole’s. And I always get a pickled egg as well. My grandfather got me hooked on those things when I was a wee lad and I always get excited and have to buy one when I see them for sale somewhere.
Yes, pickled eggs are yummy ML. Will keep you posted if we get to Coles soon…
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