To qualify as a greasy spoon, Brunish’s would have to upgrade.
The Pottstown sandwich shop is an institution in this weathered Schuylkill mill town, where fortunes were once tied to the iron and steel industries. The mill furnaces stopped firing up a long time ago, but Brunish’s is still cooking away, a cement bunker of an eatery just more than six feet high that extends improbably from the basement of Dan Brunish’s home to the sidewalk.
At lunchtime, customers line up out the door for the hot sausage and hot dogs, the most popular items – and for many years the only ones. Most people slam down at least two, slathered in mustard, ketchup, onions, and relish, the only condiments. More.