On my way to the game i was refereeing tonight, i was behind a car with the license plate HWNGTON⌠i tried to take a picture of it, but they were all blurry. I wanted to stop him and see if it was the man, the myth, the legend!
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Damn that went fast. Good stuff @brogdonfanpage
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Next time he posts, heâs just an old man screaming at clouds on the message boards, like the rest of us
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Sooo⌠i never tried Littlejohns in its current iteration⌠it must not have been very goodâŚ
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It was a pale shadow of its former self.
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Stopped in with @DFresh11 last time we were in town. @jasponti is right it paled in comparison to its former self. The food was ok but the vibe was dead. The chalkboards gone, it felt like a run of the mill sh$t deli run by a couple kids who couldnât care less about being there.
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Nailed the description there
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5 E-Z Pieces
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Thatâs the shyt right there!!!
Awesome Todd
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Yeah it was terrible. I donât even think the food was that ok, I thought it ranged from a fraction as good as the old stuff to actively quite bad. Agree it didnât seem like they cared at all. Didnât feel like they even tried to capture the spirit or food of the original place. Things on the menu with the same name would have completely different ingredients and presentations.
It felt like the new owners had never even been to the original. Iâm sure that isnât true, but sure felt that way.
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i used to love the nuclear sub⌠it sounds like i wouldâve been disappointed with the current version.
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âŚanyone want to open a deli in a college town? I know a good locationâŚ
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You nailed it. That should have been a slam dunk business and the owners did nothing to truly pay homage to the original spot and they made no effort to make anything new or standout.
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Price point was actively bad for the quality too. I get that Corner rent is probably not the most cheap, and you can get away with premium sandwich prices if you bring it hard with the food quality, but they didnât get there. Especially with the college + health system lunch crowd whoâd like the convenience of the location, you have Bodoâs, Roots, Take It Away etc. right there that are cheaper and better, and then for people who want good sandwiches in general, itâs a very competitive space around town (Ivy Provisions, Feast!, Wich Lab, etc).
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Oh yeah I had completely forgotten about the price. I have mostly had the new iteration drunk after weddings, so wasnât super price sensitive, but the value was actively quite bad.
I used to eat Littlejohnâs like 3 times a week in college (2x for lunch/dinner and 1x after a night out usually) because it was price competitive with Bodos/cooking for myself a lot of the time (and quite a bit better tasting than cooking for myself was in those days). I want to say my sandwich last time I went to the new one was similar to the price I pay in DC for much higher quality.
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Pro tip just have @DFresh11 buy and then eat half his sandwich.
Seriously I wasnât aware of the price but what you and @AdventiveQuasar are saying makes sense. If that sandwich was top price it definitely wasnât worth it. Like I said, it wasnât a bad sandwich but it was not special. The bagel I had the next morning at Bodos was way better.
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Even the old LittleJohns required a certain amount of intoxication to make it worth it (of course, I ate there a lotâŚmake of that what you will). If it wasnât 2 am, there were better choices.
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Holy Toledo you obviously never simply said Five Eazy at the counter. Was an magnifecent sandwich everytime from 1990-1993
Do better. Edit: do better is snarky or whatever. No hate it just makes me laugh since someone told me that recently tongue in cheek
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I think I told you, I worked at Michaelâs Bistro. We used to sneak down the back stairs after weâd cleaned up after last call and enjoy LittleJohnâs. There may or may not have been some quid pro quo involved. I ate a lot of LittleJohnâs.
I stand by my assessment.
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