In a city saturated with places to get a cheesesteak, sometimes it can be a little confusing which places are good and which are all hype, which places are basically tourist traps, and which places have a great sandwich. This is the question Philly SteakOut is hoping to help answer. Using information from foursquare, Philly [...]
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Philly SteakOut Would Like To Clear A Few Things Up
Aired August 17th, 2011 on Cheesesteak and Uncategorized.0 CommentsWhiskey Goldmine has given a certainly unfavorable review to the Tony Luke’s located at The Borgata in Atlantic City. While we have personally never had a sandwich from that location, we have eaten at the Tony Luke’s inside the Springfield Mall in good ol’ Delco. While the cheesesteak we had was definitely not the same [...]
Out-Of-Towners Surprisingly Adept At Filtering Cheesesteak Rhetoric
Aired April 6th, 2011 on Cheesesteak and video.1 CommentRhett and Link are two nerds from North Carolina who apparently got hired to make a bunch of phoodie-type videos for Alka-Seltzer. In the clip above, they tackle the ages-old Pat’s Vs. Geno’s war of asshats and do a surprisingly good job of proving that Mr. Olivieri and Mr. Vento just need to make out [...]
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NY Travel Blogger Attempts To Cook Philadelphians Cheesesteaks
Aired January 28th, 2011 on Cheesesteak and Uncategorized.0 CommentsMike Barish, travel aficionado, who you may know from his column in Sky Mall, is starring in a new web series that promotes the Cheverolet Cruze, but also gives this guy a chance to travel across America in search of great food and local experiences. You can catch future episodes here. What’s his first stop? [...]
Food Network’s Food Feuds travels the country, city to city, settling feuds over each city’s signature dish. Boston has their pizza and New Orleans has po’ boys. So it’s no surprise that in their Philadelphia episode, airing on October 10th at 10:00 pm, they chose cheesesteaks as their food feud. They got really crazy for [...]
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Cosmi’s Deli: Best Sandwich In America, Or Just Best Sandwich You’ve Never Had?
Aired November 2nd, 2009 on Cheesesteak and competitions.6 CommentsBehold, Cosmi’s Deli, which has been open since 1932 on the corner of 8th and Dickinson streets in South Philly. And while many others — Primo’s, Pat’s, Geno’s, et al. — are frequently sited in these Best Sandwich Ever-type polls (and indeed, have walls lined with certificates proclaiming such distinctions), somehow it has come to [...]
Pat’s & Geno’s, Feel The Wrath Of The Furious Gods Of L&I
Aired October 30th, 2009 on Cheesesteak.0 CommentsKYW is reporting today that the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I), that bastion of regulatory integrity, has presented both Pat’s and Geno’s with citations for operating with illegal outdoor sidewalk seating. According to our folks in the know, any restaurant within certain zones is allowed to “erect, construct or maintain a sidewalk café” [...]
Tony Luke Is Showing You How To Make A Cheesesteak In Your Microwave
Aired October 7th, 2009 on Animal Rights, Celebrity Chefs and Cheesesteak.2 CommentsThe world is a vampire.
Campo’s Officially Announces Name-Your-Own-Cheesesteak Contest
Aired October 1st, 2009 on Cheesesteak and Contests.0 CommentsWith their new name-your-own-cheesesteak contest, Campo’s has opened itself up to a swarm of potentially gross sandwich names, the majority of which will indubitably point out the comparison between sandwich and indiscreet human physiology. Both the campaign and the creativity that ensues are not necessarily original, but always fun. According to the press release, “the [...]
Adam Richman vs. Tony Luke’s 5lb. Cheesesteak
Aired September 23rd, 2009 on Celebrity Chefs, Cheesesteak and Phoodies.4 CommentsAdam Richman is the Travel Channel‘s conquistador. In his show Man v. Food the “Man” (Adam) is typically the victor, but as the nature of warfare goes, he loses some battles. Most notably is this video of Adam struggling and sweating his way through the Don Juan El Taco Grande challenge (seven tacos) at the [...]
