Bub and Pop’s new location options duckpin bowling and arcade video games. {Photograph} by Franzi Wild.
Bub and Pop’s. 100 Florida Ave., NE.
Bub and Pop’s abruptly shuttered in early June, alarming many Washingtonians that the beloved sandwich store was gone for good. To the reduction of everybody who enjoys its overstuffed hoagies, it reopened over the weekend in a brand new location in NoMa, previously house to the Eleanor.
The core of the menu stays the identical with favorites such because the Italian hoagie and the Hebrew Hammer (21 day-cured corned beef, roast turkey, roast beef, Swiss cheese, spicy mustard, thousand island dressing, and cole slaw). Chef-owner Jon Taub is especially excited a couple of Polin oven—”the Ferrari of ovens”—to bake his personal hoagie rolls. Taub has additionally expanded the “not sandwich” choices to incorporate a carbonara pasta salad and a fried rooster cutlet salad along with some briny bar snacks like marinated mushrooms and housemade pickles.
Different new additions will embody a soft-serve machine, an old-school soda fountain, and full bar. The hours can even broaden, and there are plans to finally provide some form of breakfast and late evening fare. “However we positively don’t need to lose the id of what Bub and Pop’s is,” Taub says. “Our hoagies and cheesesteaks, these aren’t going to go anyplace, as a result of that’s what individuals fucking need actually dangerous.” Additionally sticking round: the Li’l Petey sandwich-eating-challenge, the place patrons can try to eat a five-pound, 12-inch hoagie and fries in quarter-hour or much less to get the meal (and heartburn) without cost.
Taub has needed to supply a soda bar since Bub and Pop’s initially opened. As a child, he cherished an old-school diner referred to as Nifty Fifty’s in South Philly. “Actually the entire again of their menu was simply nothing however like lots of of soda concepts,” he recollects. Now, his patrons can experiment with 46 totally different soda syrup flavors—and Taub envisions that they’ll quickly be capable of spike their sodas as effectively. Bub and Pop’s continues to be ready on its liquor license, however plans function a full bar with wines and craft beers too.
The brand new location can even provide duckpin bowling alleys (suppose bowling however with smaller bowls and pins), a relic of the Eleanor that Taub has stored with the hopes of beginning a duckpin bowling league. It additionally has a lot of different arcade video games and a juke field.
The transfer has been coming for some time, after Taub says the owner determined to double hire on the small sandwich spot. In the meantime, the owner filed an eviction case towards Bub and Pop’s in March, in search of $250,000 in unpaid hire and charges. Taub declined to touch upon the go well with. He did inform Washingtonian that he thought lengthy and onerous about doubtlessly leaving the realm altogether. “We talked about all these totally different choices that we had,” he says recounting the choice to remain. “And we form of felt, since we’ve been right here for a dozen years and we constructed this title, that we didn’t actually need to shutter Bob and Pop’s.”
