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Kevin LaPierre
Citizen
Username: Lapnlu
Post Number: 39
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 4:20 pm: |     |
I'm jonesing for a cheesesteak for some reason, anyone have any suggestions where to get one nearby? |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3034
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 4:33 pm: | |
I saw a few people getting them at the Parkwod Diner yesterday. |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1296
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5:01 pm: | |
Jay's on SA |
wendy
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Username: Wendy
Post Number: 1558
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5:57 pm: | |
I believe that, besides Buffalo wings, that is one of few decent things that O'Reilleys makes. At least my husband has ordered it more than once. |
Dego Diva
Citizen
Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 584
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5:58 pm: | |
Parkwood's cheesesteak is good! |
max
Citizen
Username: Max
Post Number: 183
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 7:14 pm: | |
I second Jays on Springfield Ave, the cheesesteaks are awesome. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 853
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 9:29 pm: | |
I also second Jay's, and it's a friendly, simple place.
The best ones are at Pat's, 9th and Passyunk, in Philadelphia, and worth the trip. Pat's is open 24 hours a day. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4007
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 5:31 am: | |
...sorry, but H2TA has the worlds best cheese cake!!!
I'm not kidding about this. If you dont believe it, drop in anytime for a wee free sample....
Listen up Art, call Chef Scott and have him light the ovens, because once Kevin LaPierre and the others taste our cheese cake, we'll never be able to keep up with the demand! |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1717
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 5:50 am: | |
Innisowen, how are the rolls at Jay's? The thing I typically find all wrong about cheese steaks (and their tasty cousin, the chicken cheese steak) and subs around here is the rolls. Too hard, or too hot dog-like in nature.
*sigh* cheese steaks...mmmm...used to live in Delaware and dine on these regularly between Philly and Wilmington. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4010
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 6:50 am: | |
...come on! Cheese is cheese, forget about the cheesesteak!!
Drift a little and go for the cheese cake...  |
CFA
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 1416
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 7:54 am: | |
Another selfless advertisement. Ugh! |
papayagirl
Citizen
Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 425
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:30 am: | |
I actually went to lunch at a new bar in Maplewood last week, and had a really good cheesesteak. It's called The Bar Room, and it's in the former location of the Northside Tavern (i think that's what it was called). The place that was in the movie One True Thing. It's on the corner of Laurel Ave and Burnett Ave, across the street from the Quick Check.
The bar itself isn't anything special, and it looks like it may be still finding its niche - but they have a lunch menu. We were the only ones in there for a while, and after we ordered, we heard the bartender in the back, chopping up my steak himself. It's served with spanish potatoes, which are a cross between french fries and homemade potato chips. Greasy, but oddly addicting. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 859
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:54 am: | |
Cynical Girl: you and I have exchanged posts before re Delaware.
The BEST cheesesteak I ever had was in a little deli at the start of Elkton Road in Newark, after the curve from town, maybe 250 yards down from the Deer Park. But the place isn't there anymore unfortunately.
And the cheesesteak rolls at Jay's are quite acceptable for this neck of the woods, by the way. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 324
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 11:49 am: | |
...and Jay's also has awesome hamburgers about anyway you can imagine them including naked!
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LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 849
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 11:53 am: | |
Where on SA is Jays? |
Pizzaz
Supporter
Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 2345
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 12:01 pm: | |
Our phili cheesesteak is awesome too. Try it on a specially prepared garlic roll with all the toppings.
Yummy, Yum - Yum!  |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 870
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 12:10 pm: | |
Jay's is on left side of Springfield going west, about 100 yards past the right turn onto Millburn Avenue. It's just beyond Nunzio's, the barbecue place.
Very friendly people. Simple surroundings. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1720
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 1:04 pm: | |
Daffy's Deli, Innisowen? I'm remembering now (old posts, and the deli)
Are you old enough to remember the "special" chees steaks at a place on Academy St, Newark? Late at night, a "special" was 2 cans of beer in a sub roll. Big hit. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 877
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 1:10 pm: | |
I am old enough, but I used to be younger. I remember the Stone Balloon in its heyday ( I think I fogged out a lot there). Yes, it was Daffy's Deli, I believe.
Here's to Newark (2 distinct syllables)! |
cmontyburns
Citizen
Username: Cmontyburns
Post Number: 1222
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 2:04 pm: | |
While we're on the subject: What's up with people around here putting KETCHUP on cheesesteak?!?! Disgusting.
Seems to come by default unless you order it otherwise.
And a sloppy joe has ground beef in it, dammit! |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 880
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 3:19 pm: | |
Ketchup on cheesesteak= no-no.
Too distracting, not right.
Like ketchup on chicken (yech!!!!) |
r2boy
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Username: R2boy
Post Number: 231
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 3:37 pm: | |
On Fridays Nat's Deli on the corner of Elmwood and Boyden has a cheesesteak special that is really good and they deliver too....Anybody here old enough to remember Hanks cheesesteaks on Clinton Ave in Irvington? They were the best... |
CFA
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 1421
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 10:00 pm: | |
Growing up in Pennsylvania, there really is no comparison to Philly. I know it's too far from Maplewood/South Orange, but if only one of the restaurants has a Philly cheesesteak and then tries to copy it.....YUM! |
dawny
Citizen
Username: Day
Post Number: 20
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 7:30 pm: | |
for those of you u of d grads, do any of you remember sams? by the way, the stone balloon closed this summer. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 898
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 10:01 pm: | |
I passed through Newark this spring, after a wedding in Baltimore, and over beers heard from former colleagues at the U of D that the Stone Balloon was closing.
That's too bad. What's going into its place, a Chili's or a Bennigan's, god help us? |
noracoombs
Citizen
Username: Noracoombs
Post Number: 109
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 11:50 pm: | |
Dawny: SAMS!!! OMG!!!! Sams was like my second home! Except we never ate cheesesteaks there--it was always "Sambolis." And $1 pitchers--ah, yes, those were the days.
Had not heard the Stone Balloon closed--that's too bad. Certainly hope the Deer Park is still open. And what about Klondike Kates--is that still around? |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1731
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 6:36 am: | |
Sam's was the place that had the late night "special" subs with 2 beer cans! I blanked on the name.
Durned shame about the Balloon. I was a townie, and am twice an alum ('76 and '98). I used to love going to the Balloon in the summer when they'd get really cool bands that appealed to an older audience. More recently, the East End Cafe (seeing Richie Havens, Jonathon Richmond and the Modern Lovers, Louden Wainwright III). I was also a Deer Park person. Remember George Thorogood? I think KK is still there, though there's been a marked move towards coffee joints, etc.
*sigh* |
wendy
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Username: Wendy
Post Number: 1564
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 7:45 am: | |
Was George from there? You say Thorogood and this immediately comes to mind:
"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No I ain't seen my baby since a nigh' and a week,
gotta get drunk man till I can't even speak
Gonna get high man listen to me,
one drink ain't enough Jack you better make it three
I wanna get drunk I'm gonna make it real clear,
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"
And on that note, have a good week - with or without cheesesteaks.
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Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1732
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 8:40 am: | |
Yes, George most certainly was (and I think is, though I last heard he'd bought a spread just over the line in PA, West Chester-ish). So was Bill Blough, the drummer for a long time. Used to be, even after they got famous, every New Year's they'd play a tickets-only party at the Deer Park. |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 3849
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 9:02 am: | |
wendy,
George's band, The Destroyers was at one time known as the Delaware Destroyers. OB, OS, OB was written by John Lee Hooker...its who I think of when I hear of the song. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1733
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 9:07 am: | |
http://www.georgethorogood.com
This'll give some info... |
noracoombs
Citizen
Username: Noracoombs
Post Number: 110
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 12:50 pm: | |
Rumor had it that George played a concert in one of the dorms on the beach (Harrington, maybe?) a few years before I got there. (I started in fall 1981.) |
Duder
Citizen
Username: El_duderino
Post Number: 780
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 1:02 pm: | |
So many fellow Blue Hens in M-SO. Class of '94. Ate cheesesteaks from Cleveland Deli all the time, especially when my roommate was a delivery guy. Used to go to Philly all the time just for the cheesesteaks.
Haven't been back, but I hear the Deer Park is no longer a dive. Too bad.
Is Rainbow Records still on Main St? |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1739
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 1:18 pm: | |
Cleveland Deli was GREAT! Real good roastbeef subs, too, as I recall.
It's been 3 years since I was in the DP, but, yeah it got all redoe. When I left, I was more in the Crab Trap zone, age and interest wise, and also the East End. Not sure about Rainbow...he kept changing/shrinking his "concept." By now it's probably a Borders... |
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