Chicago Beef and Hot Dogs in Albany?

[gordon wing]

Driving through the Solano Ave & San Pablo Ave intersection - I think I saw a sign on the business occupying the NW corner - that read: Chicago Beef and Chicago Hot Dogs. Was I imagining that? Did I read it wrong?

[lmnopm]

Nopo, it is the Four Corners and Le French Cafe (forgot the name already) space. Hopefully this one will be good, and stick around.

[gordon wing]

Thank you! I could have sworn I saw that sign reading Chicago Beef and Hot Dogs ........

[lmnopm]

A couple of beef sandwich choices x2 (with/without cheese) and several dogs - cash only. Didn't walk inside because I was with canine. Maybe simple, spartan, cash is the right recipe for that corner.

[nicedragonboy]

dropped by on Friday for lunch. they had sold out of all their food on Thurs so had to restock Friday morning resulting in a slightly late opening. it tried a Chicago dog w/ the works, $4, (quartered dill pickles, the neon green relish, tomatoes, onion i think, mustard & ketchup, pickled whole hot peppers) and a cheesy beef sandwich which came with Giardiniera, provalone and dipped in au jus, $8. The hot dog itself was pretty good, but I think all the rest just isn't my thing, it sort of overwhelmed everything and got kinda soggy and hard to hold. The beef sandwich was definitely a mess and hard to handle, but was very tasty. I like their Giardiniera a lot, and if I went back, would probably ask for a little extra on my sandwich.

[drewskiSF]

i also found it hard to handle. the Amoroso roll started to disintegrate a bit 1/2-way through eating it and dumped all the meat / fillings onto the foil on the table.

you can order the sandwich "dry". at least that's an option at places in Chicago.