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Cheesesteak Sandwich
STRAIGHT FROM PHILLY STEAKOUT
Multiple locations
This high-cholesterol delicacy is a crap-shoot at most video-poker hangouts -- buried in the menu and likely tough, stringy meat under that gooey cheese. But the policy of doing one thing and one thing right has paid off for these rapidly multiplying stands -- 10 of them in the phone book now -- that pummeled second-place Rocky's Philly Cheese Steak like Apollo Creed whupped on Sly in the first movie.
Our Pick:
STAKE OUT
4800 S. Maryland Parkway
Names can be confusing, but this one-time party bar for college students brought the focus more onto its wicked cheesesteak after it toned down its act and started emphasizing food over frivolity a few years ago.