Blue Plate Special

Patrick’s Roadhouse (Santa Monica, Calif.) • Frosted Mug (Alsip, Ill.) • The Penguin (Charlotte, N.C.)

Guy goes coast to coast this week in search of some amazing specials. There’s the former railroad station dishin’ out overstuffed breakfast sandwiches and “The Governator’s Special” in Santa Monica. On the South Side of Chicago, one of the few remaining traditional drive-ins rollin’ out great Italian beef sandwiches and root beer floats. And in Charlotte, the circa-1954 burger joint cookin’ up fried pickles and homemade corn dogs.