After a recent string of incredibly disappointing cheesesteaks — seriously, the one we had this past weekend at Tony Luke's very well could have been dog meat — it might be time to go haute for a change.Like the $100 cheeser at Barclay Prime. Remember her?
In case you’ve forgot, CBS3 recently did a web segment on the sandwich and you can watch Chef James Locascio prepare the monster sandwich with Kobe beef, butter poached lobster, vidalia onions, shaved summer truffles ($900 a pound), and melted Tallegio cheese. (Lobster was substituted in for foie gras after Starr
(Note: CBS3 apparently takes their internets lessons with the Philly.com team as neither understands the value of making their videos embeddable.)
Oh, yeah — it’s also an excuse to check out CBS3's new web reporter, Melissa Brewer, who was Miss Pennsylvania in 2005. Yea — just sayin'.
Actually, we’re thinking about heading over to Rae to try the Venison Cheesesteak a la D.Stern. For $18, we’re thinking it's a lot less pretense (not to mention investment) for a delicious upscale cheesesteak. Right? Although, upon further investigation, it might not be on the menu anymore… Eff.
Any other ideas of places to go for a high-end cheesesteak? Toss ‘em in the comments. No cheesesteak springrolls, though, thank you very much — we like our sandwiches with bread.
(Not that we don’t love us some Jim’s and, ugh, as much as it pains us to admit it, Geno's too — we just need a high-quality cheeser right now to remind us of how delicious this sandwich is supposed to be.)
Related:
Philly's $100 Cheesesteak: A Look At Philly's Most Expensive Sandwich [ CBS3 and video ]
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3 comments:
No need to go high end.
John's Roast Pork in South Philly.
Steve's Prince of Steaks in the Northeast.
Both are orders of magnitude better than all the places you mentioned.
I went to the Ten Stone a while back and they offer a fillet Mignon cheesesteak. Definitely good for a change from the norm and not that expensive if I recall.
ben, thanks. we were actually on our way to John's last saturday when we discovered that they killed their on-again/off-again saturday hours for the second time in the past two years. so that's how we ended up at tony luke's. (which is normally a pretty decent consolation, just not this time.)
meanwhile, steve's is simply too far to ever be a viable go-to option for us.
and burke, thanks for the suggestion. however, we're all too familiar with the food at ten stone. that sandwich might be okay, but the food menu as a whole there is a complete prefabrication from an “upscale-bar-menu-in-a-box” package from some restaurant-foodservice supplier. we'd rather eat somewhere where the kitchen has demonstrated at least some capacity for innovation/creativity.
(the beer list at ten stone is another story and probably the main reason we’ve tolerated the place for so long.)
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