Cheesesteak
John’s Roast Pork Is Bringing Back Saturday Hours
John’s Roast Pork on Snyder Avenue can be a pain in the ass to get to since they are only open weekdays between 6:45 a.m. […]
Rick’s Steaks Wants to Return to the Reading Terminal Market
Dan Gross is reporting that Rick Olivieri wants to bring Rick’s Steaks back to the Reading Terminal Market. Back in 2008 Olivieri and the Reading Terminal Market […]
Around the Web: Classics Edition
Jason Varney | Fussing with Forks Food photographer Jason Varney has been photographing some classic Philadelphia dishes. Above is his photo of a Sarcone’s Italian […]
More Than Just Pizza at Santucci’s
Brian Freedman reviews Santucci’s at 10th and Christian. Unsurprisingly he digs the pizza and finds that the menu is deeper than just the square pie. […]
More Than Just Pizza at Santucci’s
Brian Freedman reviews Santucci’s at 10th and Christian. Unsurprisingly he digs the pizza and finds that the menu is deeper than just the square pie. […]
Everybody Loves Philly (Except Stephen Starr)
For whatever reason, this past weekend just seemed to be Philly’s moment in the national press. It seemed like everywhere I looked, I was seeing […]
A Few Thoughts on the Death of Joey Vento
Quite a few years ago, I went down to Mexico to do some work at a dolphin facility. The vast majority of the employees were […]
Geno’s Joey Vento Dead at 71
Geno’s Steaks founder Joey Vento died earlier this evening of a massive heart attack, he was 71. Vento opened Geno’s at 9th and Passyunk in […]
Philly SteakOut Tells Us What We Know, We Love It Anyway
Have you checked out Philly SteakOut? It’s one of the first applications we’ve seen that has harvested social media data and applied it in an […]
?uestlove Gets His Own Roll at Zama
?uestlove joins the likes of Marc Vetri, Ryan Madson, and Pierre Calmels of Bibou with his induction into the Celebrity Roll hall of fame at […]
Reader Mail: Philly Loses World’s Largest Cheesesteak Title To Tuscon, Where We’re Pretty Sure There’s A Good Chance That the World’s Largest Cheesesteak Completely Sucks, Even If They Are Using Amoroso Rolls And The Dude’s From South Philly
Hello, I wanted to pass on to your readers the longest cheesesteak record does not belong to Philly anymore, the record is now in Tucson […]
MyPlate Replaces Food Pyramid, We Replace MyPlate
Months of work. $2 million dollars. 4,500 focus group participants. The loving attention of Tom Vilsack, the Department of Agriculture, Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity task force […]
“I Think My Stomach Just Committed Suicide”
Leave it to one of the willowy gals in the Art Department at Philadelphia Magazine to say such a mean thing about such a delicious […]
On The Ground, Day One: New Kid On The Block
In which the new food editor wanders around his brand-new home and eats whatever strikes his fancy… How you feel about any city in the […]
First Bite: Marathon’s $11 Cheesesteak
Yesterday, I had the chance to try the new cheesesteak from Marathon Grill, which the company has been toying with over the last few months. […]