Fast Eddie’s Pit Beef

I love this place. The food is always so good and quick. I recommend them every time I can.

OMG! This place is amazing! Got a couple of their platters for our wedding at Elk Neck State Park on Sunday, the food was so good, well packed, nicely presented and so much more than we even hoped for! But thats not all, the best part was working with Angie and her great crew. She took time to help put us at ease, and leave the food to her and took a huge worry off me. She went above and BEYOND, to help make our wedding a super event! :-) WITH GREAT FOOD! We will be ever grateful to Angie and her crew!!!

Eddies is the crown jewel of my Cecil county lunch rotation. Wings are outstanding. Brisket average. Cheap and plentiful.

I love stopping at Fast Eddies when I’m in the area, driving to the beach or traveling on I-​95. Love their pit beef sandwiches! Moist and flavorful. Friendly staff that seems to be the same over all these years.
Great fries and plenty of condiments top things off.
Wish we had one closer to us in Pennsylvania!

Poor time management for catering the order for 1200 is over an hour late and party has started. Brought out condiments, Cole slaw, and potato salad to sit in the heat when order wasn’t ready had to tell them to keep in cooler until order was done. Pathetic will never use again

Their crab fries are pretty good! Fries are freshly cut, with their crab soup poured over it? It’s good.
As for the sandwiches… Asked for medium rare pit beef, came out totally well done and dry. Bbq beef sandwich, while my husband thought it was good, it was drenched in too much bbq sauce and the beef wasn’t very tender.
There was another customer that was ordering extra rare when I was there, maybe that’s what I should’ve done to get the «medium rare» order…
Friendly service. Lots of condiments is a plus!

Solid sandwiches, fries are fresh cut and crispy, the only reason I knocked it down a star was because a second visit, I got the ribs as recommended by a worker… they took about 25 minutes and were not worth the money at all! I will stick to the sandwich combos from now on, but I will def be going back, just to be clear!

I had the beef sandwiches 3x at Eddie’s before ordering their party platters for a special party for 90 people. Angie was excellent with follow up and helping me pick what would be best for my group. As always I was worried about having enough food for everyone. My group are big appetite people. Everything was absolutely terrific. From the organizing of the menu to picking up the food. Everyone was terrific. When my gang saw the food the first thing they said was, «I know where this came from – Eddie’s» I received numerous compliments on how great the food was and how everyone loved it. We had food left over and everyone had more than enough to eat. Everything was packaged very nice. I would high recommend Eddies food and party platters to everyone. The price was more than reasonable and we had more than enough food. Great Job!
Lori A.
North East, MD

This no-​frills spot is easy to miss. It’s in a tiny strip center right beyond a large Royal Farms gas station/​convenient mart and to get there you have to turn in before you see Fast Eddie’s. We weren’t looking for it, we just spotted it so we had to u-​turn on Route 40 to even get in.
We expected it to pretty much only offer pit beef but it had all kinds of food options: pit beef, turkey and ham; pork BBQ; sausages, burgers and more. They also had lots of sides: fries, slaw, spiced apples, etc.
Their menu looked so good I thought it’d be hard to choose but they took the problem away: they offer options to get 2 meats («Twist») or 3 meats («Trio»). I got a pit ham & turkey twist and my husband got a pit beef & pork BBQ twist. They also offer a bunch of meal combos. In addition to ordering to-​go, you could also eat inside or outside.
Our food was prepped to order, and was deelish. The meats were nice and moist with great smokey flavor. The fries were nicely crisped and seasoned. We dabbled with their selection of sauces, settling on our favorites.
Servers were pleasant and the facility was clean. Wholly enjoyed our fast-​but-​not-​fast-​food meal!

Glad I was just visiting the area because I would not go back. I heard all about Pit Beef from the Food Network, checked the reviews and tried it.
The beef sandwich was just ah. Not much taste to the beef. The fries, looked hand cut, but were so soggy, fresh cut fries need to be fried twice, these were definitely not.
Should have gone to one of the steak places in town.

I got a pork BBQ sandwich and my fiancé got a burger. They pulled his burger out of what looked like a scrap bucket and put it on a cold run of the mill bun, the fries tasted reheated and half of them were burned from what we are assuming is from reheating via the fryer. Despite this, the sandwiches were okay, and might have even been good (and even hot) had we not stopped in so close to closing. However for two cold sandwiches, old reheated fries, and a side of slaw was 25 bucks… We over paid by a lot. If we are paying normal hour prices, we expect the food to go with it.
We would like to try it again during the mid day, see the food is better, if we ever do, I will change this review accordingly.

Loved the pit beef with BBQ sauce and the BBQ pulled pork! Kids menu is more than a toddler eat (which is great). And they really are FAST.

Oooo… the beef sandwich was nice. Food was fresh and cooked perfectly. Nice little place with friendly service.

Let me start by saying that pit beef ratings are intensely personal. People have wide ranges of what they like or expect. So I will tell you my criteria as I did when I reviewed Fast Eddie’s in Fallston.
I am a pit beef purist. It has to be beef, open flame, burnt ends available, no over done smoke, and the ability to order medium that is really medium. It has to be sliced to order and It also has to come on a good quality roll, which gets steamed when the whole sandwich is wrapped in foil. So this review is only for the pit beef.
A high quality pit beef sandwich is a combination of good quality meat, the right preparation, AND the skill of the person cooking and slicing the meat!
Fast Eddie’s in Northeast nails it. Each time I’ve gone, I’ve noticed the expertise of the guy behind the knife and I’ve gotten exactly what I asked for, tender, medium pit beef. Great flavor, no gristle, no overdone smoke flavor. Just perfect pit beef!
And if you have your dog in the car, they may have a few scraps for him too! No charge!
I would not change a single thing!
I know they are under the same ownership as the Fallston location, but this one is cleaner, has an inside sit down area and I believe has the better carving skills.

Stopped in last night just past 7:30. The closing time was 8. The floor was being mopped and the crew was obviously ready to go home. I ordered my usual beef and turkey with sides to go. The condiments were down to just BBQ and one other item. The crew kept talking about leaving. It must have been a rough day. I got home to discover that I had 2 beef sandwiches. I prefer turkey. The beef was chewy to the point of not being edible. Both sandwiches were thrown away. The chicken fingers were so over cooked that they were almost saw dust. The curly fries were great. A beef sandwich should not be like eating chewy meat. This was disappointing and I won’t go back soon. There are other good choices. I hope the owner reads this and does something.

Been here several times and have tried a variety from the menu. The best would have to be the bull dog. It is pit beef with sausage in the middle with
son usually gets the bacon cheeseburger with the fries. It is big. We have never left there feeling hungry. The downside is I think it is a little on the pricey side though.

I love pit beef and my husband heard about this place about 40 minutes from our house. I had a twisted and then we went to the lighthouse for a walk. We went back again and for pit beef sandwiches and fried pickles. If I visited this location twice in the same day, then you know the food is good. It is also cheap. I was stunned by the prices. I will be going back again and again.

I got the bbq pork sandwich and my wife got the pit beef sandwich. We each ate half of both sandwiches and both were really really good. The prices were cheap, so this deserves a 5 stars.
Note — make sure you put the bbq sauce on the sandwiches!

One of the better BBQ shacks I’ve eaten at in the Atlantic region. I didn’t try everything, obviously, in one visit! We took some back to our hotel for the next day, as well as eating lunch there. The «burnt ends» are something I rarely, if ever, have seen in the NE (much less actually order), here I had no complaints. The pork sandwich I had was very good, too. Looking forward to trying more on the menu (link posted below).
The beans had bacon and onion, not just the canned Campbells «pork» and beans, with the little blob of fat. The beef brisket was very tender and not overly smoked and the couple of sauces offered were good and not watery. I would have liked a more choices as far as the sauce. I usually don’t eat chicken at BBQ joints, so I can’t comment on that item. The locales that specialize in BBQ often have patrons that prefer chicken fried. I would actually rather eat BBQ turkey, anyway.
The service was very friendly and fast. I found about it on Unilocal,so thanks ya’ll!
I normally try to get seafood when near The Bay, but after seeing the reviews I had to try it.
The worst part is that they are almost a two hour drive from where we live…

Atmosphere isn’t much to look at but that isn’t a deterrent. (Americana meets an ill placed Dali poster??)
Best pit beef I’ve ever had. It’s always tender and juicy and plenty of it. Fresh ‘ocean style’ fries. Good selection of sauces and toppings— Love the fresh horseradish on my sandwich. Great place to stop in for lunch. Easily overlooked as it’s in a dismal small strip but not to be missed for great, affordable food, fast.