New York Street Food

One of the new food trucks I’ve been looking forward to is Phil’s Steaks.  When I spoke with the guys from Phil’s a while back, they were amazed there was not already a Philly cheesesteak truck in New York.  Lot’s of places in New York serve cheesesteak, but most are lacking.  Time to see if these guys are the real deal.

It always take longer than expected to get a new food truck on the street, but Phil’s finally had a soft opening this weekend to work out the kinks before heading to higher traffic areas this week.

We went up to 23rd St & 5th Ave on Saturday, got the lowdown from the guys (and gal) in the truck, and had a cheesesteak hot off the grill, in addition to bringing one home for my family to try.

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To paraphrase Hank Williams Jr – “Are you ready for some Philly’s!”  Cheesesteaks that is.

Phil’s Steaks passed their inspection last week, had the truck wrapped beautifully, and test drove their new grill.  Now they are ready for a soft launch tomorrow.

1st cheesesteak on the new grill - made wit' onions and provolone

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NYC’s first authentic Philly cheesesteak truck is coming very, very soon!

Phil’s Steaks is owned by Philly transplants who have been living in NYC for the past 15 years, and want to bring their beloved cheesesteaks to our great city.

They will bring fresh baked Amarosa’s bread up from Philly daily and use only USDA choice ribeye steak. You will have your choice of wiz, American, or provolone, onions and hot peppers. Phil’s will have chicken cheesesteaks too.

Phil’s said they tried over a dozen types of steak and six types of chicken before selecting the meat for their cheesesteaks.  Should be good!

And when you’re done with your cheesesteak, they will have desserts from our friends at CupcakeStop.

Phil’s Steaks truck has passed inspection, but it’s a toss-up whether they will be on the road before or just after year-end.  It’s that close.

Getting ready for inspection

A real cheesesteak wit onions, sharp provolone, and some hot peppers on an Amaroso roll.  Can’t wait!

We will let you know when Phil’s Steaks hits the NYC streets, but you can follow Phil’s Steaks on twitter here, and we have included them in our Mobile Munchies twitter feed as well.

cheesesteak pizza

The cheesesteak melt we had from Gorilla Cheese NYC for Today’s Lunch got us looking around the web for stuff about cheesesteaks.  What we found was pretty interesting.

The people behind Endless Simmer put together an article about some of the ways you can enjoy cheesesteaks in non-cheesesteak forms.

Besides the not-much-of-a-stretch cheesesteak pizza, there are cheesesteak egg rolls, cheesesteak fries, cheesesteak empanadas and cheesesteak pretzels – but the piece de resistance is the Philly Taco aka South Street Sushi.

Click through to find out how to create this Frankenstein’s Monster of cheesesteak, pizza and cheese fries.  There’s even an instructional video.

cheesesteak egg rolls

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I didn’t have much time for lunch, with a 2 o’clock call for which I had to prepare.  When lunch is time-sensitive, one of my go-to places is Carnegie John’s cart on 56th St just east of 7th Ave (behind Carnegie Hall).  While there are usually a bunch of people ordering and waiting for lunch, it’s the closest good street food cart near my office.

Today’s Lunch is a cheese steak with bbq sauce ($6.25) from Carnegie John’s cart.

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