Posted by (+12833) 3 years ago
Last week I had the good fortune to attend a conference in Center City (downtown) Philadelphia. As I haven't been to Philly in over 20 years, I was eager to sample the local cuisine, as Philly has the best food in the country.
First stop, Steve's Prince of Steaks (Pat's King of Steaks was too far a walk from the hotel).
If you have never had a Philly cheese steak in Philadelphia, you don't know what you are missing. Even the cheese steak I had in the Philly airport yesterday, which wasn't that good, was ten times better than any you would get in Montana. The secret is the that soft Italian roll.
My co-worker friend and I took a cab to South Street on Friday. Of the three cheese steaks I had last week, the best was from Jim's.
http://www.jimssouthstreet.com/
No pictures of that one. My hands were too covered with grease.
But its not all about cheese steaks. Philadelphia has other killer sandwiches, too. I had two sandwiches last week from the Reading Terminal Market, which I believe is the best food market in America (and yes, I have been to New York, Boston, Seattle, many other big city markets).
Here are pork and beef roasts waiting to be carved up at Tommy DiNic's. The roast pork with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe was voted the best sandwich in America a couple of years ago by a show on the Travel Channel. I concur.
And nothing beats an Italian hoagie from Philly. This one is from the Salumeria in the Reading terminal. It had a awesome roasted red bell pepper topping.
Philadelphia isn't all just sandwiches and pizza (the pizza is killer, too). As we were on the east coast, we went out a couple of nights for seafood. I had about the best oysters I ever had in my life at the Oyster House. We ordered three dozen, 3 different varieties of oysters.
And we went to a Greek restaurant, where they packed a whole Mediterranean sea bass in rock salt, poured some sort of Greek liqueur over it, and set it on fire at our table. It was delicious.
If you ever get the chance to go to Philadelphia, I highly recommend it. I won't bore you with pictures of the bell.
First stop, Steve's Prince of Steaks (Pat's King of Steaks was too far a walk from the hotel).
If you have never had a Philly cheese steak in Philadelphia, you don't know what you are missing. Even the cheese steak I had in the Philly airport yesterday, which wasn't that good, was ten times better than any you would get in Montana. The secret is the that soft Italian roll.
My co-worker friend and I took a cab to South Street on Friday. Of the three cheese steaks I had last week, the best was from Jim's.
http://www.jimssouthstreet.com/
No pictures of that one. My hands were too covered with grease.
But its not all about cheese steaks. Philadelphia has other killer sandwiches, too. I had two sandwiches last week from the Reading Terminal Market, which I believe is the best food market in America (and yes, I have been to New York, Boston, Seattle, many other big city markets).
Here are pork and beef roasts waiting to be carved up at Tommy DiNic's. The roast pork with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe was voted the best sandwich in America a couple of years ago by a show on the Travel Channel. I concur.
And nothing beats an Italian hoagie from Philly. This one is from the Salumeria in the Reading terminal. It had a awesome roasted red bell pepper topping.
Philadelphia isn't all just sandwiches and pizza (the pizza is killer, too). As we were on the east coast, we went out a couple of nights for seafood. I had about the best oysters I ever had in my life at the Oyster House. We ordered three dozen, 3 different varieties of oysters.
And we went to a Greek restaurant, where they packed a whole Mediterranean sea bass in rock salt, poured some sort of Greek liqueur over it, and set it on fire at our table. It was delicious.
If you ever get the chance to go to Philadelphia, I highly recommend it. I won't bore you with pictures of the bell.
