Dishes /
Dish
BLT
Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.
On confirmed menus
Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.
- 5 places in 5 towns: Troy, Little Falls, Norwich, Owego, Warsaw
- Regions: Southern Tier (2), Capital Region (1), Mohawk Valley (1), Western NY (1)
- How it’s served: sandwich at 3 places
- Menu sections it’s listed under: Blts (1), Grinders (Cold Sub) (1), Sand-Wedges (1), Sandwiches & Clubs (1), Triple - Decker Club Sandwiches (1)
Based on 5 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.
Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.
- BLT Fresh
- AVOCADO BLT Fresh
- Bacon Lettuce Tomato (BLT) Fresh
- BLT Fresh
- Jalapeño Popper Turkey BLT Fresh
- BLT Club Fresh
- BLT Sandwich Fresh
What it is
From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.
- Cuisine: American
- Kind of dish: sandwich
- Also listed as: avocado blt, bacon lettuce and tomato, bacon lettuce tomato, bacon lettuce tomato blt, blt club, blt sandwich, burratta blt, jalapeno popper turkey blt
On old menus
From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).
Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:
- 1953 · “Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato, Mayonnaise .65” at Paramount Pete's Restaurant, Saratoga Springs · library record ↗
- 1956 · “Grilled Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato .70” at Persian Terrace, Syracuse · library record ↗
- 1969 · “OPEN GRILLED CHEESE, BACON & TOMATO BACON, LETTUCE & TOMATO” at Leherb's Restaurant, Kingston · library record ↗
Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.
Related dishes
Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.