So I finally made a trip to PHL to try some of PHL’s sandwiches, the legendary cheesesteaks and pork sandwiches.

I received a lot of suggestions via pm and here in this thread, thanks.

Due to time constraints I was only able to hit two spots: Tony Lukes (Oregon location), Pats King of Steaks. I know Geno’s is so close but after the grease sandwich at Pats I had no more appetite.

Tonly Lukes Experience:

Pork Sandwich Italian rocks: good bread, tender tender pork slices, with aged Provolone cheese and broccoli rabe. ^

Cheesesteak: good bread, tender slices of steak and ...!!! Cheese Whiz!!??!! I couldn’t imagine that the PHL cheesesteak whiz was the crappy yellow, no-flavor, crappy, nachos junk, crappy cheese but it was. STAY AWAY from the Whiz, incredibly gross stuff, American Cheese is almost just as bad.

Pat’s King of Steaks Experience:

PROVOLONE Cheesesteak wit (with onions). Nice sandwich but not great. Not really slices of meat but bits n chunks, sautéed onions helped. I don’t expect a sandwich like this to be grease free but this thing was dripping in grease, I’m guessing a cups worth, so much so, I didn’t finish the end of the sandwich where the grease had completely soaked the bread.

My conclusions, the pork sandwich was great ^ and I look forward to trying out some of the other roast pork places mentioned.

I was disappointed, partly my fault, as I had elevated the PHL cheesesteak to a holy grail food item, it was good and I will for sure try some of the other places mentioned but I don’t think it will attain that high level of enjoyment I’m expecting.


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