Those of you old enough to remember the Boar & Castle Drive-In Restaurant on West Market Street (at Walker Avenue) will know all about butter steak sandwiches, green drink and Boar & Castle sauce. In the above photo, these items have just been served up at Fincastle’s DIner (215 South Elm Street) in downtown Greensboro. Fincastle’s owners, nostalgic for a taste of the old Boar & Castle as well as filled with great ideas of their own, have been preparing meals like the one above since opening downtown in 2005. The sandwich was great and just the way it would have been served in the 1960’s: lots of special sauce, loaded with melted butter, a bun that was soft on the outside and crispy on the inside and, last but not least, a generous chunk of steak. The drink, with strong undertones of pineapple, likely would have been smaller in portion but equally sweet and GREEN!

We wanted to feature this iconic Greensboro meal today because  both The Fresh Market stores in Greensboro are having a food event today where you can purchase Boar & Castle sauce. This Greensboro-invented sauce is the tangy condiment that gives butter steak sandwiches their unique flavor. Had we been true to history, we would have ordered fries or onion rings to dip in the sauce! If you want to learn more about Boar & Castle sauce, read this Jeri Rowe article. Between his article and all of the follow-up comments, you’ll begin to understand why Grimsley and Curry High students flocked to the Boar & Castle Drive-In Restaurant for lunch and would return at night to hang out with friends.