Buona Beef

Italian beef sandwiches are simple things: juicy meat, bread, sweet or hot peppers.

Perhaps less known than even the Italian beef sandwich is gravy bread, simply a hunk of the white Italian bread used in the beef sandwich, drenched in the sauce, and which may contain a few shreds of the beef that once simmered in the gravy. Gravy bread is not unique to Chicagoland, but using Italian bread and Italian beef gravy seems to be the predictable by-product of serving Italian beef sandwiches.

Although watching the game from across the street lacks some of the immediacy and excitement of being in the stadium itself, there are many benefits to sitting on a rooftop on Waveland as you watch the game.