Philly Cheese Steaks

The one constant on Hubby's bucket list is to travel to Philadelphia and experience authentic Philly Cheesesteaks!  Wifey planned this trip with the express goal of making that happen and here is the story of our experiences doing so:

Over our time in Philadelphia, Hubby tried 4 different Philly Cheese Steaks!  Wifey tried exactly 0.  Research told us the main competitors for Cheese Steaks were Genos and Pats.  We started our adventure randomly with Geno's Steaks within a couple hours of arrival in Philly!  (stop one was of course to attempt (and succeed! at early check in at our hotel).

For this first visit, we had not yet learned to navigate the Philadelphia city bus system despite having a 3 day transit pass so we walked.  It was about a mile and a half south from our hotel, which sounded easier than it was.  Along the way we got to see a bit of south Philly including a walk through the Italian Market.  At long last we arrived, and began reading the signage to figure out how and where to order!  

Cheesesteaks are ordered at one window (and paid for in cash only).  A bit further down the building, you can order drinks and fries (also cash only).  We ordered a Philly Cheesesteak wit onions and cheese whiz and a cup of cheese fries.  

Our food came out relative promptly, we found a seat in the sun (it was a bit cool) and dug in!  Hubby to the cheesesteak and Wifey to the cheese fries.  

Don't we look happy and full!?

Our next Philly Cheesesteak experience was Pat's King of Steaks which is literally across the (diagonal) street from Genos.  We talked to our hotel and procured access to their Canopy Bikes! This made the trip to Pat's much easier!  Also a quick note - google maps has bicycle directions available now which were clutch in a town that actually has quite a few bicycle lanes!

Pat's is slightly more expensive than Genos (about $1 more per steak) but per Hubby includes more meat and is thus worth it.  From here we visited Pat's exclusively with Hubby trying each of their Philly Cheesesteak versions (with mushrooms and without) (with relish and without) (with onions and without) etc.  The one thing they all had in common?  Cheese Whiz! 

Team Relish for the Win!

View of Geno's from Pats.

View of Pat's from Geno's