The 10 best Roast Beef Poboys in the NOLA Metro

My ideas are often hijacked by people who get paid to do, with less flare, intelligence, and creativity, what I've been doing for a while now. As we continue our tour of the New Orleans neighborhoods and the different elements of New Orleans cuisines, we pause to go back to the beginning of the beef craze in New Orleans. Like the hamburger, the po-boy can be credited to the Germans. The Germans were the ones who mastered the French bread of New Orleans and began baking the long sticks for po-boy consumption. Germans have a way with bread and beef, as we saw in The 10 best hamburgers in the NOLA Metro.

Roast beef po-boys are sometimes considered the first po-boys. This is probably not true, as the first po-boys were likely potatoes soaked in the juice from a roast. Nonetheless, the roast beef po-boy is for most native New Orleanians, the first po-boy they tasted, and the one they most likely eat on a regular basis. The shrimp po-boy, with the introduction of cheap shrimp during the 1970s, became a rival to the roast beef, but the roast beef will forever be the litmus test for natives when testing a new po-boy shop.

As always, your top ten list is encouraged because when it comes to taste, no one has superior taste than the taste of the person who is doing the eating.

10. Sammy's Deli
9. Mother's
8. Parasol's
7. Short Stop
6. R&O's
5. Parkway
4. Bear's, Old Metairie
3. Guy's
2. Koz's
1. Hobnobber Cafe, Metairie