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The cheesesteak is the regional mascot food of the Philadelphia area. You can get at least a decent cheesesteak within a 20 mile radius of City Hall, plus/minus five miles, and once you get outside that radius, the quality across the board plummets. Inside the cheesesteak circle though, it's hard to find a bad one. Even subpar tourist traps like Pat's and Geno's, places I wouldn't recommend to my worst enemies, are edible, which is more than you can say for overly processed chicken or middle school cafeteria pizza. It's a Philadelphia-area pastime to rank cheesesteak places, or at least latch onto their favorites and defend them like a mother goose guarding her nest. As a Philadelphia area gourmand, the cheesesteak wars are of keen interest to me, and I want to put in my two cents the old fashioned way, by eating them for myself to decide, triglycerides be damned. The first entry is a place local to my home, Nonna Lisa's Kitchen in Ridley, PA.
