After exploring a bit, it was well past lunch-time - so it was time to find somthing to eat and there was only one thing on my mind... Cheese Steaks!
We'd done a little google search to find out where the best Philly Cheese Steaks could be found, but it seems like it's as hard as finding the best pizza in New York, everyone has their own opinion, everyone has their own recipe and all the reviews varied so much. So we tried to find one that came up a lot as being good, called Rick's Steaks... but once we found it, it was closed. Then we tried a placed called Jim's - that had closed down too... so we were quickly losing hope.
Luckily we stumbled across a greasy looking place, underneath a carpark which looked like a genuine Cheese Steak eatery and somewhere where we'd get a geniune experience... so we went into Shank's.
Inside was a little prettier than the outside, it had a proper little diner feel to it, with stainless steel counters, pepsi bar stools, pictures of reviews and celebrity endorsement all over the wall and that brushed steel stuff on the walls and table tops.
It was probably a bit of kebab house-ish place to go, but we were getting hungry and it seemed popular so we thought we'd give their cheese-steaks a go... well, I did... Abi opted for a burger.
Philly Cheese-Steaks are simply thinly sliced steak, with onions covered in cheese in a roll...
It was a lot tastier than it looks - really.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the burgers - hands down the worst burger we've experienced anywhere... so we shared the cheese steak instead.
I have to admit, it wasn't quite all I'd hoped it would be, and I'm hoping that when we go back to Philly we'll find somewhere a little different, maybe one of the other highly recommended places that were a little out of the city center.
Then again, if it's good enough for Bill Cosby, it's good enough for us!
Mission two - completed.
We'd done a little google search to find out where the best Philly Cheese Steaks could be found, but it seems like it's as hard as finding the best pizza in New York, everyone has their own opinion, everyone has their own recipe and all the reviews varied so much. So we tried to find one that came up a lot as being good, called Rick's Steaks... but once we found it, it was closed. Then we tried a placed called Jim's - that had closed down too... so we were quickly losing hope.
Luckily we stumbled across a greasy looking place, underneath a carpark which looked like a genuine Cheese Steak eatery and somewhere where we'd get a geniune experience... so we went into Shank's.
Inside was a little prettier than the outside, it had a proper little diner feel to it, with stainless steel counters, pepsi bar stools, pictures of reviews and celebrity endorsement all over the wall and that brushed steel stuff on the walls and table tops.It was probably a bit of kebab house-ish place to go, but we were getting hungry and it seemed popular so we thought we'd give their cheese-steaks a go... well, I did... Abi opted for a burger.
Philly Cheese-Steaks are simply thinly sliced steak, with onions covered in cheese in a roll...
It was a lot tastier than it looks - really.Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the burgers - hands down the worst burger we've experienced anywhere... so we shared the cheese steak instead.
I have to admit, it wasn't quite all I'd hoped it would be, and I'm hoping that when we go back to Philly we'll find somewhere a little different, maybe one of the other highly recommended places that were a little out of the city center.
Then again, if it's good enough for Bill Cosby, it's good enough for us!Mission two - completed.
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