St Louee

Yeehaw I finally made it to St Louis!

Reliable source, the Bottle Rockets message board hooked me up with the St Louis sandwich train.
Many say the best sandwich in St. Louis is the Amighetti’s Special, served with pride on The Hill (formerly Dago Hill), the old Italian neighborhood where baseball legends Joe Garagiola and Yogi Berra grew up.
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The neighborhood lay-out of St Louis took me by surprise because the town sprawls, distinct neighborhoods separated by long stretches of low-slung, unsigned buildings, freeways and seemingly unoccupied space. The Hill was like a little town of its own, randomly dotted with restaurants, markets and other small businesses, punctuating sentences of exceedingly tidy single or two-story homes.

So nicely wrapped, tight like a papoose.

I can’t say for 100% sure that this sandwich was the best on The Hill, not without further research, but I can say a) I wouldn’t doubt it and b) it was well worth the trip, including the interminable red light separating us from the ‘hood. According to what I read, it is Amighetti’s sauce that sets this sub apart. I have no reason to doubt the claims. The sauce was delicious and it seeped down my arms.

Speaking of well-known Italian Americans, we owe the quotation “all men are created equal”, arguably the best-known phrase in any of America’s political documents, to Phillip Mazzei, Thomas Jefferson’s friend and neighbor. Were all sandwiches created equal, my quest would end. The search gives a person a reason to strive, to think, to try, to look around the next corner with more curiosity than fear.