Friday, September 30, 2011

Cheesesteak Madness

cheesesteak with american from john's roast pork


big daddy from carmen's in bellmawr


dont be scared- donkey's is awesome and probably safer than where you live


Check out our Cheesesteak roundup over on Serious Eats. Definitely got some new favorites - Carmen's, Donkey's, Chinks... Philip's is still way up there. Something about the way these places do it... the instant you taste it you know you're eating one of the top 10 in the city, and it's sort of sad to ever go back to eating some pile of frozen "chopped and formed" steak that tastes like cardboard.

Serious Eats: Philadelphia Sandwich Tour: 10 Cheesesteaks We Love

donkey's steak on round del buono poppy seed rolls, beer is a dollar


quit worrying about the name and go eat one the best in the city


giant mint shake barely thinned down from ice cream, good luck


apparently chink's didnt serve whiz until 1 year ago.. delicious


philip's pepper steak... awesome


Of course the article got a lot of "why the hell didn't you go to Jim's or Tony Luke's" (yawn) plus a couple that I keep hearing about over and over that look damn good- Mama's Pizzeria in Bala Cynwyd (read about them on Roadfood) and Chick's Deli in Cherry Hill (read about them on Beef and Buns, awesome blog)

The future is definitely not "fancy" cheesesteaks on baguette with gruyere truffle wiz but instead ethnic cheesesteaks like the korean bulgogi "Koagies" and Mexican pizzeria cheesesteaks.... There's others out there too - some real some imagined - so if you know about some hole in the wall in the back of a Cambodian fish market that makes shrimp paste cheesesteaks feel free to let me know!

2 comments:

Natalie Suarez said...

OMG YUM

xx

natalie

mere musketeer said...

i know you like your wiz, but i will recommend the chink's with american and onions. i usually sneek a lil mayo on it too. also glad to see you also utilize the long hots from john's. nice job