First REAL Philly Cheesesteak

We decided to finally get a real taste of Philly this weekend. Tony Luke's has been rated the best cheese steak in Philly for many years including this year. We look it up on the trusty google maps and we are on our way. Making our way down I-295 across the Walt Witman bridge, pay our $4 toll to enter PA and bare to the right at the first exit. While we just miss the yellow light we are stopped with one of the lovely homeless guys at the corner panhandling for money, waving and smiling at everyone stopped. We turn left once we get the green light pass by the skeezy looking gentleman's club Cheerleaders and take the next right. As we make that final turn we see Tony Luke's crappy little sidewalk stand with a line backed up 50 people deep and cars illegally parked all over...some great signs that this is going to be good. We park a little less illegally at an Aldi parking lot right behind the stand, where it looks many others are doing the same. We take our place in line and in about 20 minutes we get to the cashier. Now while we are waiting in line we have to get our order down so when it is our turn we are ready and can spout our order off in true Philly fashion (kinda like a dick).

2 cheese steaks, one with American, one with wiz, a side of onion rings and 2 cherry Pepsi's...BOOM I nail it, kind of felt like Frank from Old School when he is debating at the end of the movie.

So it is another 15 minutes probably until we have our food and if you have seen the place it is basically right up next to the sidewalk with a window and 6 tables of 4. As there are around 100 people converged here there is no where to sit, so we head back to the GTI and dig in. The steaks were great, I was very impressed. We both enjoyed ours, but I have to say the cheese wiz one that Angela got was a bit more flavorful than the mild American one I got (those are the 2 cheese choices). They were very cheesy and not at all dry, the bun was great too. Since this was our first time we didn't realize that if you wanted onions and anything else you had to ask for it so it was just steak, cheese and bun. So next time we will be more prepared!

Tony Luke's, worth the wait!

We still want to try out Gino and Pat's the 2 "original" cheese steak rivals, although I have heard they are not that great, but I guess you have to try t hem all if you want to be able to decide who is the best.

p.s. Don't forget the napkins...