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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    I do like the fries.  I actually like the place across the street much more.  The way they do the meat at Genos is not my thing.  Pats has way better onion/meat mix going.
    A steak is almost always good...I just chuckled at the dude who has been here for years taking people to Genos over some of the other options.
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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,516
    Wanna go to Wawa?

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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,227
    edited March 2024
    Went to one of the places from the Top 10 I Posted from a Newspaper article a while back.

    I went to Curly's Comfort Foods last night for a Cheesesteak. I was in the area for a HS State basketball playoff game. 

    I got the LARGE one, with American cheese, and it was LARGE. (sorry, no clue how to Post picture). Plenty of Meat that was chopped up nice with the cheese melted through out nicely.  

    While it was very good, I've had better at Lillo's and Donkeys(though Donkeys needs to make ther's bigger for me=LOL)

    Curly’s Comfort Foods
    The cheesesteak at Curly's Comfort Foods in Levittown, Pa., features a full pound of ribeye on a seeded Aversa roll. Pictured here is half of a steak.
    1140 Bristol Oxford Valley Road, Levittown, Pennsylvania, 267-639-0787,curlyscreations.com. Closed Monday, 

    Michael Sarian, a bald-pated “Curly” in a long line of bald-pated Curlys, first put his 1-pound cheesesteak on the menu as a joke. The longtime comfort-food cook had gotten access to a supply of premium ribeye, and figured what the heck?

    “It was a gimmick,” he said. “But people liked them.”

    During peak pandemic, May 2020, he was handing out cheesesteaks for free to workers at local businesses in need. And then the steaks caught on, especially on social media with a newly formed Cheesesteak Gurus Facebook page that’s now swollen to more than 80,000 members. 

    But it wasn’t just hype. It was also technique. Sarian layers meat, then cheese, then more meat, then more cheese, to distribute Cooper Sharp evenly and create a lovely substance that is neither meat nor cheese but gloriously both. His Aversa rolls are a special order that get extra time in the oven: sturdier, crisper, with more chew and an interesting sourdough twang. 

    And if you feel like a pound of meat is too much? Sarian added a “small.” It’s still 12 ounces.

  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    Yeah I've been to Curly's. Very good cheesesteak, but, yeah---waaaaay too big. I don't think I even finished mine.

    They could seriously lose 25% of the meat and it would add to the overall quality of the sandwich. 
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    A pound of meat - that's pretty excessive.
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,227
    Well, I could've ordered the 12" but I was hungry and wanted to give the LARGE one a try.

    I was able to eat all of it. And yes, it is excessive and so is the price. I didn't look what it cost for one Cheesesteak
    but our total bill for 2 of us was over $43.00(2 cheesesteaks 1 small fry(which was not small) and 2 20 oz. Sodas.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,108
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,108
    So hoagie is right word? I cannot keep up. And in CT grinders were not alway toasted. Primos, White House etc. all great and a standard before all Camden shows.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,868
    The Juggler said:
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
    In Philly, is the chain "Subway" known as "Hoagieway"?
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    Poncier said:
    The Juggler said:
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
    In Philly, is the chain "Subway" known as "Hoagieway"?
    It's known as "the shitty sandwich place".
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,868
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Poncier said:
    The Juggler said:
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
    In Philly, is the chain "Subway" known as "Hoagieway"?
    It's known as "the shitty sandwich place".

    It's known as that pretty much everywhere. :lol:
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    Poncier said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Poncier said:
    The Juggler said:
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
    In Philly, is the chain "Subway" known as "Hoagieway"?
    It's known as "the shitty sandwich place".

    It's known as that pretty much everywhere. :lol:
    I mean, what's up with that bread. It looks disgusting even in the commercials.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,165
    Poncier said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Poncier said:
    The Juggler said:
    Get_Right said:
    PA is a weird place for food. Great subs (I call them grinders), great breakfasts, and the odd local place serving long hots with clams. You just never know, unless you know.
    There are no subs here.

    And a grinder is merely a toasted hoagie.
    In Philly, is the chain "Subway" known as "Hoagieway"?
    It's known as "the shitty sandwich place".

    It's known as that pretty much everywhere. :lol:

    Well we do have Hoagiefest :tongue: 

    Wawas 2023 Hoagiefest Celebrates 15 Years of Hoagie Love



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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,165
    I didn't realize National Cheesesteak Day was yesterday :disappointed:


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  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Nice! Just had a cheesesteak from a place I’d been meaning to try for weeks now, so I guess I was celebrating! It was delicious. My picture won’t do it justice, but the instagram feed does.

    (Now, I’m down in Georgia, so don’t know exactly how these rate, but it was a serious sandwich.)

    https://www.instagram.com/weeyumsphilly/
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    CarryTheZero said:
    Nice! Just had a cheesesteak from a place I’d been meaning to try for weeks now, so I guess I was celebrating! It was delicious. My picture won’t do it justice, but the instagram feed does.

    (Now, I’m down in Georgia, so don’t know exactly how these rate, but it was a serious sandwich.)

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    I've seen worse looking cheesesteaks!
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,196
    Soon ...
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,205
    Angelos 
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    Beautiful write-up about the matriarch of John's Roast Pork. Made me cry, just like a McCready solo or the roast pork they sell there.

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