"…roast beef is awesome compared to Kelly's (not the one in Revere beach…"
(in 5 reviews)
"but damn are their sandwiches pretty awesome."
(in 4 reviews)
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Mike's Roast Beef
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- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Late Night
- Alcohol:
- None
21 reviews for Mike's Roast Beef
Review Highlights
DRUNK FOOD DEEE- LUXXE
I have spent one weekend of my life in Boston.
I went to Fenway Park two nights.
I drank many many beers.
And both Friday and Saturday involved a night cap at Mike's.
Boston Area equivalent to Jim's Steakout - - -Roast Beef sliced to order -- - Your choice of size. Yummy BBQ....Pretty Fresh to say the least.
The kicker was this outstanding "Pizza Roll" that was just that- - - an "egg roll" with pepperoni -cheese-sauce perfectly golden deep fried.
Need a late night fix. This is it - pricey but gosh darn drunk food delish.
Come on, it's close to the city, the roast beef is frikken awesome, and it's open til late! What more reason do you need to go to Mike's?
I generally go with the beef with sauce + cheese but my dad swears by extra sauce + mayo, and he's been eating it a lot longer so his choice has stood the test of time.
Rolling out of the city late one night, I was fighting a hardcore case of the drunchies and lamenting the fact that Kelly's had already closed for the night when I rolled past Mike's Roast Beef & Seafood.
Open until 2:00am every night?!? My prayers have been answered!
I admit that it was probably worth the visit just to stand behind the two drunk guys in front of me who ordered $112.50 worth of food (including 8 roast beef sandwiches and 6 crab rolls). But when it became my turn to eat, the evening stopped being fun.
I was so disappointed with the lobster roll I nearly cried. The dry, crusty roll was filled with about 1 part canned lobster product, 1 part imitation vegetable and seasoning and 3 parts mayonnaise that bordered on being lard. It tasted more like a bad tuna fish sandwich than a lobster roll.
And they say you should never take advice from a drunk man wearing a pink tutu and an afro, but the exception is when he's standing in line behind you and suggests you never order crab rangoons from a white person. I didn't take his advice and was rewarded with a box of disgusting cardboard filled with day-old cream cheese.
Meanwhile, I got to listen to the pissed-off staff yell and swear at the drunk patrons (HINT to the staff: if you're going to be open at 2am on a Friday night, you should expect to have to deal with drunk assholes).
I guess the key to Mike's Roast Beef & Seafood is to stick to the roast beef and pass on the seafood. However, I probably won't be back to find out.
Everett operates under its own little rules.
How else can you explain Mike's Roast Beef, a sandwich joint so tasty that you'll find yourself driving 2 miles out of your way, after the bars close, to eat there? Ignoring the harm done to your gastro-intestinal tract the next morning, you'll order a junior roast beef with mayo and onions. You'll nod to the off-duty cops and the on-duty hookers.
Protip: the crab rangoon isn't bad - and I say this as someone who's been to Baltimore but not to Rangoon. Order enough to share.
They say no one does BBQ like the South. Fair enough. But I'd say the Northeast has reign over the roast beef sandwich. (Everyone else will have to settle for Arby's - bleeeck)
I'd passed by Mike's countless times taking the 105 to Sullivan, but it wasn't until Halloween '06 when I was formally introduced. It was well past 1, and I was out with Peter Griffin and my boyfriend, the banana. I was told to order the super beef three way with pickles.
"What's a three-way? Roast beef...with pickles?" I questioned it, but you shouldn't. No, just do as you're told. It won't matter, because if you're like us, you'll be rip-roaring drunk when you step into Mike's, so the already amazingly good mess of beef and sauce will taste that much better. Just remember to ask for extra napkins.
I pass by Mike's Roast Beef a lot during my daily commute. For some reason, I never bothered to venture in, sticking to the more popular Kelly's for my weekly fix of roast beef. After coming across the Yelp reviews, I decided to give it a shot and was quite happy with the food.
The place is a no-nonsense restaurant that seems to cater to those that want takeouts. There are no chairs, just tables where you can stand at to eat your food.
I had a roast beef sandwich (horseradish sauce, tomato), onion rings and some chicken wings. The onion rings was very mediocre, but I enjoyed the roast beef and the wings very much. The roast beef was tender and not rubbery, and the horseradish sauce had just the right amount of kick to it.
The diehards may still swear by Kelly's, but I was impressed. For a quick bite or takeout, you really can't beat Mike's.
Got a Jr. roast beef with BBQ sauce, horseradish sauce, and pickles.. Deliciousness. Crunchy buttery toasted bun and juicy beef oozing with sauce. Wanted to eat a few things on the menu but I don't feel like feeding my ass into oblivion. Sandwich was a good size and was $4 and some change....not too bad for a big sandwich filled with yummy goodies. The rest of the menu looked good and I will definately go back.
Good late night joint for a bite for a roast beef sandwich and fries. Some people love their fried clams but never got one to try. I have to say Royal Roast Beef in Methuen better but this isn't bad. I find the beef to be just a tad more well done than I like but overall not bad.
Fries are always fresh and piping hot.
You will dream of their sauce and beef.
Surprisingly the clam roll is quite good too. Mikes is the bomb and especially tasty late night.
Damn good beef sandwiches. From the beef to the bun and everything in between, it's all good. The portions are great, and the food is fresh. They are open late, so that's a plus. I would go there more often if I lived closer, but it's too far away from home. Whenever I'm in the area I try to hit this place up, but that's once in a blue moon.
One night I was cut off trying to get onto 93 North in Boston, forcing me through the tunnel to the airport (thanks, Masshole. Now I'm going the opposite way of my house and you've saved 3 seconds. Score!) Rather than turn around in East Boston and make my way back to 93N, I decided to take the "scenic route" back to Somerville through Chelsea and Everett. It's beautiful if you're really into failed 20th century technology and urban wasteland. But it did lead me to possibly the perfect post-drinking food: Mike's burgers, roast beef, and seafood.
In a word, this place is old-school (do hyphenated words count as a single word?). If you aren't getting takeout, your options are to a) eat at a stand-up counter, or b) eat in your car. Like Kelly's on Revere Beach, Mike's is an example of a dying New England tradition. These places used to dot the coast all the way from Connecticut to Canada, but have been nearly wiped out by McDonalds, BK, and Taco Bell.
The service is sort of a restaurant version of a punk rock concert. A complete shitshow breaks out in front of you, and then 2 minutes later it's all over. I suspect some of the girls at the counter are related. No one but family could display that combination of love and violence.
The food here does what you need at 3am, but don't expect high quality.
The fries are delicious though. Just the right combo of crunchy and soft.
A twice-a-month departure from 'The Plan', Mike's is conveniently located (for us Malden-to-Boston and back commuters) on Route 99 in Everett and helps me to miss Nick's Roast Beef in Beverly (read: Nick's: The Best Roast Beef Anywhere) a little less.
While I hear the seafood is also excellent, I stick to the time-honored formula of Beef + Onion Roll + BBQ Sauce + Heavy-Duty Mayo + Cheese = A Happy Belly + Hours of Guilt.
If we're sticking to the food, it's an *easy* five stars. If we're taking into account the mind-numbing experience -- where what is a reasonable wait is made to feel like ages as you can't help but listen to the local dolts perpetuate the negative stereotypes associated with Everett/Revere -- you're going to sacrifice a star. I was thinking about taking another for the absolutely beyond-heinous fatties working the register but remembered 'I'm at an Everett roast beef joint" and thought better of it.
Plus: They're open awfully late (the actual closing time seems to vary with the demand) on weekends and one can usually get his 'Super 3-Way' on the way home from Boston's last call.
Mike's is awesome. Whenever I have to be in that area, I try and make it over to Mike's... just as long as I've got cash on me.
Large or Super with light sauce is what I get. They cut it right there on the slicer, wrap it up, and shove it in a paper bag.
Awesome roast beef. Awesome fries. Relatively Cheap.
Mike's Roast Beef is a hidden treasure. A sketchy-looking treasure that has a clientele of sullen truckers during the day and dudes from Charlestown that WILL beat the heck out of you at night, but a treasure nonetheless. And it's for one simple reason...
Their roast beef is better than Kelly's.
That's right, Kelly's. Mike's wins. No matter when you went - 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, 2 in the morning on a Saturday, whenever - you are going to get a consistently excellent roast beef sandwich. My weapon of choice was the Super Beef with extra cheese, onions and tartar sauce. And every element of it, from the warm onion roll to the beef itself to the zesty tartar, was amazing. That and a philly roll (an admittedly disgusting looking pureed steak and cheese stuffed into a fried roll) and I'm good for twelve hours.
There are times when I get cravings for Mike's. Relentless cravings. Cravings that make me realize I'd do terrible, unspeakable things to get Mike's if I had to. Only White Castle in Jersey gives me such Hunger. And that's saying something.
Mike's Roast Beef is one of those places I only find myself going to at 1am, hammered. I don't think I could eat there sober. It's not the cleanest place I have ever eaten in....there seems to have a sheen of grease over the whole establishment. You can tell Mike's caters to the late night "I've just consumed my weight in beer" crowd because there are no tables or chairs. Just a chest high rail that runs along the window. People tend not to linger in a place that they can't sit down in.
Don't get me wrong, there are some good things too. The food is classic late night snackage! Waffle cut fries with cheese sauce. The Steak & Cheese Egg Rolls, oh my god! They are like crack! The Roast Beef isn't bad either.
Mike's rocks. Their roast beef is awesome compared to Kelly's (not the one in Revere beach. All the other places suck. But anyways, this is about Mike's. I'll admit, I'm also another person who stumbled through Mike's not sober late at night. So the alcohol does make the food more tasty. But I also know that the food would have still been good without the intoxication. Their super pastrami was very tender and tasty. I accidentally took a bite out of my friend's super beef and also found it to be very good. I can't say much else about the food cause that's all I had.
The place can get pretty crowded late at night so understandably there's no seats and tables and they just want to keep the crowd moving. It's not the safest crowd in my opinion. I'm looking forward to going back again. One super pastrami for me that night was just not enough.
The super roast beef sandwich was pretty damn tasty...
This is an old place on Route 99 in Everett. Its pretty cool in an old school Boston way, the kind of place that has been largely replaced by McDonalds. There is no seating inside, just a chest height counter that runs around the interior of the glass storefront. There is no seating outside other than the front seat of your car, or the curb should you lack said car.
If you ever are driving along Rt 99. and are starting to feel hungry keep in mind to make a pit stop at Mike's Roast Beef
(notice I am not telling you to go particularly out of your way to enjoy Mike's)
If you can safetly make it to the parking lot without getting a flat tire from from the major potholes in 99 or getting run over by a HUGE truck...you will be in for a treat.
Nothing new. Nothing gourmet. Not too hip...but damn are their sandwiches pretty awesome.
It is the basic. A roast beef sandwich and you get it fast and hot. They are open late. Some nights you go in there, you will be surrounded by all walks of life waiting to get their beef on. It will be so crowded you have to go wait outside.
I get a junior with cheese, no sauce. Bun is perfectly buttered and the RB is never chewy.......No, I don't come here all the time. I have lived close by for almost five years though, so yup, I have been here more than once!
They also have awesome pizza rolls for only a dollar. A super treat for when you are really recouping from a night out and it is all you can do to actually try and eat a sandwich.
There are no tables. People eat at the stand up counter or in their car or just leave.
The cons would be the biatches behind the counter. They are less than thrilled to take your order, since they have to actually turn their lazy ass head arounds and relay the info the the cook. They also get you your drinks and soup or anything front end related. Sometimes they scare me. Sometime I laugh at them. I don't come here that often to let it deter me from any Roastbeef goodness. Yet enough to make note of it to you :)
The only other con: If it isn't busy when you walk in every single person behind the counter is staring at you ...waiting for you to speak. Like they are dieing to actually get their service on.....(except the cashier girls).
Once you give your order and they all start doing something, its cool.....so yeah keep the name in mind. If you ever are driving by, it is worth the stop.
I'll be honest and say that I've never been a huge fan of the roast beef joint. We don't really have them where I come from in CA, unless you count Arby's, which I emphatically don't. Roast beef shops seem to cover New England like some sort of pestilence...in a good way.though it's pretty generic in that sense, Mike's is pretty good most of the time. However, there are a few drawbacks.
Great BIG roast beef and fries, but don't order it with their BBQ sauce! It tastes sort of weird and chemical-y. If you stick to cheese and horseradish, you'll be golden. The other things on the menu are not as good, but still OK.
Counter service has gotten better over the years, but not by much. Years ago, I saw two employees BERATING each other during a heavy lunch rush, but somehow they managed to get the food out efficiently while they were doing it. (OMG, swear words! My virgin eeeeeears!).
Parking is slightly sketchy and the area is this weird stretch of Route 99 between Somerville and the rotary that leads you to Everett. There's only a stand up counter to eat from; this is really the biggest bummer about Mike's. It seems that with lack of seating and a dingy old facility, they really don't want you to hang around; it makes Mike's seem slightly unfriendly to me. Then again, it's not like you'd really want to sit outside and suck up the local atmosphere of machine shops and random sketchy dudes walking around.
Still, the roast beef is worth a quick stop.
Its a good roast beef sandwich,,,,!!!!!!!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...price is a little on the high side but you'll get over that once you eat!
