Mary Miles, in her signature glasses and short-cropped white hair, stood by herself during the February 17 Board of Liquor License Commissioners’ hearing — she didn’t have an attorney by her side, as most business owners do.
At Dimples Bar & Grill, the cheesesteak is the core of what Miles offers, her evangelism of the quintessential Philly sandwich, selling an estimated 500 a week. As she told officials at the liquor board hearing, quality matters to her. On a daily basis, Miles and her husband, Armand, season and cook their onions and they meet their bread distributor to get Amoroso Italian rolls. The daily hunt for the only bread Miles trusts is “like an egg hunt.”
“We meet the driver in Wilmington, and it’s sporadic. We don’t know where we’re going to meet him after one day to the next,” she said. “And so we take pride in that, and that’s where we stand out. Right? We don’t use shipped day-old bread.”…