May 18, 2023 - Miracle Mile Deli - Phoenix, Arizona

 Rhona Jenkins and I were putting together a Mesa Usher Luncheon for May 18, 2023.  In preparation we visited the Miracle Mile Deli for the lunch site.  The management and staff were most receptive and helpful with our plans on April 28, 2023.

While there we ordered lunch.  Both  of us ordered The Combo…a mixture of hot pastrami and hot corn beef…and we added a New York topping for an extra $1.  It was a huge portion…and it was delicious…but we had to take at least half  of it home.  I swear there was  two pounds of meat on the plate.

When May 18, 2023 arrived and we enjoyed lunch at this establishment.  I ordered the Patty Melt.  Why?  Everyone asked me.  Well...because I keep a list of the Top Ten Patty melts I have eaten since 2000...

This burger with Swiss Cheese, grilled onions and topped with Russian Dressing…delicious…huge..served with fries…went right to #1 on my Best Patty Melts Ever list.

Miracle Mile Deli
4433 North 16^th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85016
(602) 776-0992
Hours:  Monday – Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Here is my list:

FAVORITE PATTY MELTS

 

1. Miracle Mile Deli – 4436 N. 16^th Street – Phoenix, Arizona

Burger with Swiss Cheese and grilled onions…topped with their Russian Dressing…went right to the to of my list.  5/18/2023

2. City Bar – Great Falls, Montana – served on marble rye bread…hand ground beef each morning…Swiss Cheese tasted wonderful…the grilled onions are sweet..I think they are carmelized and not grilled…not greasy…no grill taste
3. Chilleen’s on 17 – Black Canyon City, Arizona. It was perfect just as the one was at the Gold Canyon Café…grilled onions, Swiss Cheese…but the difference was this one had a very large meat patty…it was served with French Fries
4. Gold Canyon Café – Gold Canyon, Arizona – it was perfect…juicy…grilled onions, Swiss Cheese…no grill taste…and the bread was grilled perfectly. 
5. Cedar Ridge Restaurant - Mazatzal Casino – Payson, Arizona - great tasting 1/ 2 pound burger topped with grilled onions and Swiss Cheese between pieces of grilled marbled rye bread.
6. Cattle-Ac – Miles City, Montana – the toasted marble rye bread was great…beef was excellent – and you didn’t have to ask for Swiss cheese…onions cooked just right.
7. Horseshoe Café and Bakery – Benson, Arizona
8. Wolfer’s, Havre, Montana – everything about this burger is delicious.  It is a bit greasy.
9. Town Café, Gardiner, Montana – the bread was excellent…big slices…and seeds in the slices…you didn’t have to ask for Swiss cheese…onions cooked just perfect…the only negative was that my meat wasn’t cooked completely through or this would have been first or second.
10. Little Montana Café – Grass Range, Montana – good meat and just perfect onions and you didn’t have to ask for Swiss cheese.
11. Buffalo Café, Whitefish, Montana – the rye bread was perfect.  The meat was good  and cooked well.  The only downfall was that I had to order the Swiss cheese or I  don’t think they would have served it with the patty melt.  It wasn’t greasy.
12. Hitchin’ Post – Malta, Montana
13. O’Malley’s  - Canyon Ferry, Montana  -- the hamburger had too much residual on it from the cooking process.  Had it been grilled…it would have been perfect.
14. Empire Café – Lewistown, Montana – the only fault I found in this burger was that the onions were not cooked.  If they had been this would have been the perfect Patty Melt.
15. New Generation Grill – Roundup, Montana

The onions were too stringy.  They put Swiss cheese on it but also American.  Too greasy.(Closed)

16. Duck Inn – Casino – Havre, Montana

           It is served on whole wheat…or at least a couple pieces of toast.  I like the bread 

           grilled or at least somewhat grilled.  They served American

           processed cheese on the hamburger.  I chose fries one time and they weren’t the

           best.   Another time I chose potato salad and it had no taste at all.  I