Waddell's Pub

Out to Lunch: Waddell's Neighborhood Pub

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Went to lunch at the South Hill's newest - and only - Irish pub on Monday.

The name is Waddell's - named after old, old-time baseball player Rube Waddell - but it may as well be waddles.

Why? Wugh. I'm still suffering from an intense hamburger hangover.

Meet the Rube Waddell Burger ($8.95). This hefty sum of saturated fats stands as one of the most brilliant, disturbing mergers of sandwichitude in history.

First, you make a reuben sandwich - corned beef, Russian dressing, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut - on a hamburger bun. Then you add grilled onions.

Then you take a beefy hunk of hamburger and mash it up with chunks of bacon, forming a patty, and grill it. Then you put it in that Reuben sandwich.

It makes the side of delicious, crispy battered French fries look like health food - though I wish there had been more bacon in the patty. The smoky flavor barely peeked through the rest of the ingredients, and, well, if we're already having a reuben sandwich bacon burger, why not up the pork quotient?

Read the original article published February 27, 2008 by Tom The Spokesman Review 7 Taste of the Town website.