If you ask for the best deep dish pizza in Chicago, a local may tell you “Well, that’s mostly for tourists,” but you ask a Philadelphia native about the best cheesesteak, and you’ll get a very confident, very definitive response.
And the answer will vary widely among dozens of establishments.
But here’s our best shot at the top 10 cheesesteak places, blending our on-the-ground testing (a cheesesteak crawl may have happened on one occasion), the ones that came up most often in our interviews of locals, and Internet research (we’re not so arrogant that we won’t consider others’ opinions…though we will tell you when we differ).
Let’s count them down:
10. Sonny’s Famous Steaks
Slinging since: 1999…