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Mystic Celt: Tasty, True, But Where’s The Beef?

Editor’s note: Rachel Lowen is a Chicago-based sandwich fanatic who is unbreading the Windy City.

It’s St. Patty’s week- yes week- here in Chicago and everyone’s Irish. Sandwich-wise, this means corned beef is king, and when word got out that a north side pub soaks theirs in Guinness post-carving, pre-sandwich, we figured it might be worth checking out.

Enter, Mystic Celt. While the “pub” got doused with a case of the yuppies, (count the flat screen TV’s), their signature corned beef sandwich is flavor-wise as authentic as they come. The thick-cut beef nestles nicely between melted Swiss on pub-style Irish brown bread, but there definitely could have been more of it- way more. True, for a USDA “standard serving” the meat was generously heaped, but for our token St. Patty’s Day corned beef sandwich rep, we were hoping to conquer a truly-obnoxious-can’t-fit-your-mouth-around-it stack.

We recommend an extra Guinness to compensate. Slainte!

Mystic Celt
3443 N. Southport Avenue Chicago, IL 60657 (Google Map)