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Hey, let's go down to Buzzy's, buy some sandwiches and throw 'em to the prisoners!
By adamg on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 7:43am
On the Web, nothing ever dies. Take, for example, this page advertising Buzzy's Roast Beef, more than eight years after it was demolished to make way for a hotel where people pay good money to eat behind bars:
We're more than just Roast Beef.
Stop by and check out our menu of sandwiches, salads, and more. We even serve breakfast.
Buzzy's Fabulous Roast Beef is practically a Boston tradition. It was first opened at Charles Circle during the 1960's, and was re-opened September 27, 1996 - and has not been closed a minute since! You will find an extensive menu of sandwiches, salads, sides, breakfast, and of course, the best Roast Beef sandwiches in Boston.
Indoor and Outdoor seating available.
Spatch, who found the page, sighs:
The fact that this webpage for Buzzy's Roast Beef still exists is both amazing and depressing.
Christina recalls the last day we ate at Buzzy's.
Yes, of course there's a Facebook page for Buzzy's fans.
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"We never close!"
"We never close!"
Buzzy's...sigh....
Fond memories of slaloming off of Storrow Drive on the way home after a night at the Rat to scarf down something fried and something Roast Beefy-like. I wish I could get all misty-eyed about the quality of the food, but I honestly can't say I ever ate there sober, so I don't really recall if I was actually eating something the prisoners had thrown over from their side of the wall.
Where do people go nowadays to stand around outside in a line for food at 3:00 in the morning regardless of the weather (and share camaraderie with the other freaks out at that time and watch the drunken arguments and fights break out)? Kelley's on Revere Beach, but that can be kind of a haul at times. Any suggestions?
Sober, sadly
Worked at the Eye & Ear for a year during college. Lunch was Buzzy's or the Yellow Submarine, just up Cambridge.
Don't recall the roast beef being much to write home about - the real Kelly's is the standard I judge by - but the fries, which I remember fondly as being greasy potato quarters, could keep a college kid going for days. And after work, cheap beer at Harvard Gardens, which I saw recently has gotten all biggity, with napkins and bathroom doors that close.
Rednecks/Mitti's
It's not exactly "outside" since they have some indoor seating, but in Allston, most people go to Rednecks at that time of night. I think they call themselves Cafe Mitti's now (but if you look at the register receipt it still says "Rednecks", heh).
Greasy roast beef and other grinders and sandwiches. They've got some overstuffed ones too that sound amazing if you're drunk (but I can't get the courage up to order one sober). I'll give you an example or two:
The M.I.T. -- Chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, and marinara sauce
The Fat Mama Mia -- Steak, bacon, french fries, mozzarella sticks, and mozzarella cheese on top
Old pages never die
Heh. Yeah, if the page is hosted by a company that has stayed in business and kept paying their web hosting bills, and no one ever goes through and does spring cleaning on old content, then pages like that will still be around in a hundred years. There's all sorts of cruft out there, which has never been pruned and that Google will keep on indexing until someone tells them to stop.
The REALLY weird bit is that Google still thinks it's around, since there are reviews of it dating from April of this year. I guess when you really love your sandwich shop, it's tough to let it go.
Buzzy's
Oh, I dunno about that. The morning (early afternoon?) after a Buzzy's night I found that I could "let it go" quite easily. Perhaps a bit too easily.
What's even funnier is that
What's even funnier is that this website is hosted by the Beacon Hill Times, the community newspaper which serves Beacon Hill. The newspaper is, well, just what you would expect a community newspaper serving that neighborhood to be like. I wonder if any of their regular readers, or their staff, would ever have dared to venture across that nasty intersection to get to that even nastier restaurant.
The Beacon Hill Times was founded by a longtime Beacon Hill resident, Karen Cord Taylor. A few years ago she went into semi-retirement and sold the paper to a small chain based in Revere. But I think Ms. Taylor still owned the paper in 2002. Meaning that she should have been fully aware of Buzzy's demise, and probably covered it in her newspaper. Why didn't that news also get to the paper's affiliated website?
I write this both as a former cab driver with fond memories of quick take-out stops at Buzzy's, and as someone who has met Karen Taylor on numerous occasions, and has great admiration for her work on the newspaper.