Wheres the best cheesesteak in the city?
Well, Pat’s (King of Steaks) and Geno’s (Steaks) are the ones everybody knows about. They’re the popular ones. And there are a bunch of good places near my old house. But, honestly, my dad makes a killer cheesesteak. Back home, every Saturday night, my mom would get a couple pounds of chipped steak from Tori’s Butcher Shop up the block. My dad would get in there and chop it up and shred it down and fry it and put that American cheese on it – it had to be American. You melt it down, and you’re done. But the key to the cheesesteak is actually the bread. That’s it? Trust me. That’s the difference in anybody in any other place who tries to duplicate it. In south Philly, you get the D’Ambrosio’s rolls (from D’Ambrosio’s Bakery). They’re the best. I hear people talk about the cheese and this and that. It’s about the rolls. The meat is about the same. The cheese is about the same. But if you get that good roll, man, I’d die for that bread. It’s the only bread that I can just eat plain without
