By Ben Antonius | Daily Republic | May 05, 2009
Marvin Neil recently opened Corney's Cornbeef next to the boat launch in Suisun City. He serves four types of beef sandwiches. Photo by Chris JordanFAIRFIELD - Marvin Neil didn't waste time fussing over his menu.
Corned beef. Roast beef. Barbecue beef. Done.
Neil and his wife, Debra Neil, recently opened Corny's Beef Eatery at the marina in Suisun City. Marvin Neil, a one-time Chicagoan, wanted to re-create the foods -- corned beef and Italian beef -- he enjoyed as a child, and wasn't interested in complicating things.
'I grew up eating them and I loved them and when I got to California, you can't find them anymore,' he said. 'We are going back to a date when people used real meat.'
The Neils opened their doors in mid-April, resurrecting a business they had once run earlier in the decade. For years, the Neils sold sandwiches out of a food truck in Vacaville, with designs on establishing a proper restaurant.
Those plans were derailed by the New Year's Day floods of January 2006, but they returned to the forefront after a conversation Marvin had with the owners of California Marine Sports.
'They said they get a lot of boaters coming in looking for food, and somebody could make a killing out here,' Marvin recalled.
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