Food: Jon Smith Subs

Jon Smith Subs is one of those local franchises that you wish was spread throughout the country, if only so you could eat it everywhere. There are about two dozen or so individual restaurants in the Palm Beach County area; you can't even get JSS in Gainesville - hugely disappointing. My family and I have been eating at JSS for nearly two decades now, and the quality has never wavered, which is a pretty huge deal in my book.

The menu is simple, and the setup is deceptively similar to a Quiznos or a Subway. You order a sub, sit down, and wait for them to bring it out to you. The difference here, though, is that the various steak and chicken-based subs are cooked to order and thus are always fresh. My personal favorite, the Steak Bomb, is incredibly satisying - grilled steak, mushrooms, bell peppers, bacon, cheese.

The drawback to this approach, of course, is that it's slow. You might have to actually wait for your food to be cooked before you start chomping down, unlike the prepackaged stuff they hand out at the big boys. If you have the time and inclination, and you're in West Palm Beach, I'd highly recommend stopping by...

3/4 stars