The beef on weck is Buffalo’s proudest sandwich: shaved roast beef piled high on a kummelweck roll — a crusty bun topped with coarse salt and caraway seeds — with a sharp hit of horseradish and a dip of beef jus. It was invented at Schwabl’s in Buffalo in the 1920s, and it’s been a Western New York institution ever since.

Buffalo’s iconic roast beef sandwich
Tender slow-roasted beef, a salty caraway roll, and sinus-clearing horseradish — simple, savory, and unmistakably Buffalo.


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