{"id":1283,"date":"2011-08-10T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2011-08-10T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:15:45","slug":"philly-cheesesteaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/philly-cheesesteaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Cheesesteaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went south to get some sandwiches.<\/p>\n

As a first timer, we had to hit the tourist spots: Geno’s<\/a> & Pat’s<\/a>. Little did I realize they were right across the street from each other, next to a park.<\/p>\n

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Geno's<\/p><\/div>\n

Geno’s, clearly going for the Shock & Awe campaign.<\/p>\n

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Inside Geno's<\/p><\/div>\n

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Geno's Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

Nice & simple. Tourists want the cheesesteak. I assume locals (if hypothetically locals ate here) go for the roast pork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Geno's Cheesesteak<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see, there isn’t that much meat for a $9 sandwich. The cheese (whiz) shines with a high cheese to meat ratio.<\/p>\n

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Pat's Front<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pat's Ordering Window<\/p><\/div>\n

Pat’s offers a lot more options on the menu. I found it unnecessary, but I guess it allows customers to get it their way.<\/p>\n

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Pat's Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

Pizza Steak? Fish Cake? What??<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

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Pat's Cheesesteak<\/p><\/div>\n

Pat’s obviously offers substantially more meat than Geno’s. Here, I’d point out that the line for Pat’s was noticeably longer too.<\/p>\n

At both places, I got with onions and cheese whiz. I didn’t get fries because it would fill me up too much. Keep reading to see why I had to preserve stomach space.<\/p>\n

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Pat's Signage<\/p><\/div>\n

Since Philly is a two hour drive from NYC, I made an executive decision to hit up a third spot.<\/p>\n

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Dalessandro's Steaks<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to Serious Eats<\/a>, we hit up\u00a0Dalessandro’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dalessandro's Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dalessandro's Cheesesteak<\/p><\/div>\n

Cheaper than Geno’s and Pat’s (both $9 each), this $7.25 cheesesteak was amazing. The cheese is mixed into the chopped steak (as opposed to topping the meat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went south to get some sandwiches. As a first timer, we had to hit the tourist spots: Geno’s & Pat’s. Little did I realize they were right across the street from each other, next to a park. Geno’s, clearly going for the Shock & Awe campaign. Nice & simple. Tourists want the cheesesteak. I assume […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[885,91,881,882,178,884,883,93,310,170],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-2","tag-cheese-wiz","tag-cheesesteak","tag-dalessandros","tag-genos","tag-menu","tag-pa","tag-pats","tag-philly","tag-roast-pork","tag-steak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}