It was way past lunchtime and I was wandering around east market street near Penn’s Landing (whatever that is). It was cold and there was a stiff wind blowing, my spirits were low after many hours at constitution hall when just then god smiled down on me and revealed the fruits of my labor: two [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Shorty’s aka “Tony Lukes” (576 9th Ave, NYC; between 41st and 42nd st) is another place I want to love. Cheap beer, decent selection and cheesesteaks. Cheesesteaks. Just the word makes me relax. I can almost feel the wiz and beef fat coating the inside of my mouth (okay, okay, “wiz in the mouth” sounds [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
What is it about cheesesteaks that make them so confident? Perhaps it’s the masses of meat and cheese or perhaps it’s the incredible man-points one gains by eating cheesesteak or maybe it’s just something in the personality of someone who opens a cheesesteak joint, they seem to love aggressive slogans. BB’s Sandwich Bar (120 W [...]
Oh (Amazing) Wogies (39 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY). How sweet the taste. That saved a wretch like me. I was lost but now I see. Oh Wogies. Your cheesesteaks are incredible. They’re not like others (see 99 Miles to Philly and Carls Steaks): not greasy or terrible food-coma inducing. They are warm and cheesy [...]
A sign outside Carls Steaks (507 3rd Ave, New York) reads “AOL Voted Best Sandwich in NYC.” Bold claim, Mr. Carl, that’s a mighty bold claim. “If anyone’s up to testing it, it might as well be me”, said I. And test it I did. I marched in the next lunch day and said “Whiz [...]
Monday, November 12, 2007
In the spectrum of sandwiches, the Philly cheesesteak is always the mildly retarded sibling that makes everyone laugh. While it starts with reasonable ingredients: steak, cheese and maybe onions, but winds up looking like some kind of horrible disaster. It’s greasy and slimy and looks more than a little like dog food with a strange [...]