Pho 75 ★ 4.5
Pho 75 in Philadelphia is the Washington Avenue Vietnamese counter, a no-frills South Philly Little Saigon room with the city's most-named single bowl of beef pho.
Try: Beef pho
Banh Mi Cali in Philadelphia is the Chinatown banh mi counter at 9th and Arch, with grilled pork, meatball and lemongrass chicken sandwiches under five dollars each.
Address: 900 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Pho 75 in Philadelphia is the Washington Avenue Vietnamese counter, a no-frills South Philly Little Saigon room with the city's most-named single bowl of beef pho.
Try: Beef pho
Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia is the 1930 founder of the cheesesteak at 9th and Passyunk, where Pat Olivieri ladled chopped steak onto a hot-dog roll for a taxi driver.
Try: Philly cheesesteak
Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia is the 1966 Joe Vento cheesesteak corner across Passyunk from Pat's, the orange-and-neon South Philly rival half of the city's cheesesteak duel.
Try: Philly cheesesteak
John's Roast Pork in Philadelphia is the 1930 South Philly counter at Snyder and Weccacoe, James Beard America's Classic 2006 with the city's defining roast pork sandwich.
Try: Roast pork sandwich, cheesesteak
Jim's Steaks South Street in Philadelphia is the 1976 South Street counter that reopened May 2024 after the 2022 fire, expanded into the next-door Eyes Gallery building.
Try: Philly cheesesteak
Tony Luke's in Philadelphia is the 1992 South Philly counter on East Oregon, the canonical roast-pork-with-broccoli-rabe-and-sharp-provolone Italian sandwich.
Try: Roast pork sandwich