Center City Pretzel Co. ★ 4.4
Center City Pretzel Co. in Philadelphia is the South Philly wholesale pretzel bakery on Washington Avenue, baking the city's hand-twisted figure-eight pretzels around the clock.
Try: Philadelphia soft pretzel
Spataro's Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia is the 1947 Reading Terminal Market cheesesteak stand, the second-oldest cheesesteak counter in the city after Pat's.
Address: 51 N 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Center City Pretzel Co. in Philadelphia is the South Philly wholesale pretzel bakery on Washington Avenue, baking the city's hand-twisted figure-eight pretzels around the clock.
Try: Philadelphia soft pretzel
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.
Try: Banh mi
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.
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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