Sweet Willie wrote:Looks like Philly's Best has 4 locations in the Chicago area.

I was in Evanston on Thurs night and noticed that the Philly's Best location there is closed, signage is still up but everything has been gutted from the restaurant.

Philly's Best closed the Evanston location when they opened a new location on Sheridan in Rogers Park about about a year ago. However, as I saw last week, that location has also now closed.

While I've always enjoyed the sandwiches I got at Philly's Best - although it has been years - I've also been reluctant to call them true "cheesesteaks". The meat always seemed a bit too close to IB-style and my favorite version, on garlic bread, definitely isn't representative of anything I ate growing up in the Philly area. A fine sandwich, but for me not really a cheesesteak.

I've been pretty happy with the steaks I've gotten here on my way back towards the city from points west:

http://www.mojoseastcoasteats.com/cheesesteak-menu.html

I haven't given the hoagies a try, but they look authentic as well. Amoroso's is supposedly involved and they use D&W meats.