Pit Beef

Where to get a Baltimore pit beef sandwich: top round grilled hard over a fire so the outside chars and the middle stays rare, then shaved thin onto a roll with raw onion and tiger sauce (horseradish and mayo). This page lists three stands: Chaps on Pulaski Highway in East Baltimore, Chaps in Glen Burnie, and Jake's Grill, a roadside shack on Falls Road in Cockeysville.

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Jake's Grill – Cockeysville

Grab a Sandwich Pit Beef

A smoky roadside shack on Falls Road just over the Baltimore County line, where top round turns over the fire even in the summer heat. The pit beef sandwich is a two-handed stack of lean beef on a crusty kaiser roll.

11950 Falls Rd, Cockeysville, MD 21030

Pit beef on a kaiser roll with raw onion, tiger sauce and barbecue sauce

Chaps Pit Beef – Glen Burnie

Grab a Sandwich Pit Beef

The Ritchie Highway branch of East Baltimore's Chaps, south of the city in Anne Arundel County. Chaps cooks its beef over a charcoal fire and slices it thin onto a potato roll, with its horseradish sauce, BBQ sauce, onions and pickles.

6714 Ritchie Hwy, Suite G, Glen Burnie, MD 21061

Pit beef on a potato roll with horseradish sauce and onions

Chaps Pit Beef – Pulaski Highway

Grab a Sandwich Pit Beef

East Baltimore's pit beef institution, cooked over charcoal since 1987. It started as a roadside shack on Pulaski Highway, next to what is now a gentlemen's club, and in 2023 moved into a bigger building right behind it, with high ceilings and TVs. The beef is cooked hot and fast, then sliced thin and rare.

720 Mapleton Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205

Pit beef, sliced thin and rare, with tiger sauce and raw onion

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