BZMaestro Eats: My Dining Adventures in the Philly region and on the road
Heading Home for My Return to Cheesesteaks
Although I gradually ate more freely in the weeks after my spring oral surgery, some favorite food items remained off limits until fairly recently. Cheesesteaks, with their crusty seeded rolls and sometimes chewy meat, were among those. When it came time to return to eating steaks, I had a huge array of options between revisiting…
A Pizza Quest Finally Realized in Bryn Mawr
There are plenty of restaurants and takeout shops in the Philly region that serve outstanding cheesesteaks or pizza. But only a handful have gained stellar reputations for both. One of those is unquestionably Johnny’s Pizza, which has opened a second location in Wayne, Pennsylvania, in addition to their original spot in Bryn Mawr. Both are…
Weekend Jaunt for Reunion – and Food
Although it didn’t take long for it to evolve into something else, my initial purpose for starting this blog in 2021 was to write about what my wife and I eat during our travels. In line with that, my return to blogging following a forced hiatus for a few months to deal with a dental…
Returning to South Jersey for Another Steak and Pie
One of my most common cheesesteak-related assertions on this blog has been that proportion and moderation are preferable to a more-is-better approach to meat and cheese. That preference led me to leave several very popular steak shops – each of which is known for using a huge amount of meat and cheese – off of…
My Favorite Philly Pizzeria Tinkers With Their Crust
It was in the fall of 2024 that I proclaimed the New York cheese pizza at Pizzeria Salvy to be my favorite pie in Philadelphia. I’ve been back there a couple times since then and that judgement has held firm. So it was a bit of a jolt to check out Salvy’s current menu and…
Reevaluating a South Philly Steak Shop
Nearly a year ago I visited the then new Skinny Joey’s Cheesesteaks on Broad Street in South Philadelphia and concluded that the only thing preventing their steaks from being elite was the chopped ribeye being underseasoned and lacking in flavor. Everything else – most notably the roll and meat and cheese proportions and distribution -…
Back to Radin’s for More Jewish Deli
It was only a couple weeks ago that I posted about my first Jewish deli meal in about six months – at Philadelphia’s Famous 4th Street Deli. In that post I mentioned that Russ Cowan, the former owner of Famous, now plies his trade at Radin’s Delicatessen in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The two delis…
Steaks and Pizza of West Chester, PA
Two cheesesteak purveyors in West Chester, Pennsylvania, made my top 20 list – Steaks, which is in the five slot, and Lorenzo’s Steaks and Hoagies at number 15. As part of the preparation for putting out a revised list, I headed toward West Chester with the intention of visiting one of the two along with…
Taking Care of My Jewish Deli Craving
Jewish-style delis have always been among my favorite restaurant genres and I was way overdue for a stop at one heading into last week. Given that Famous 4th Street Delicatessen – Philadelphia’s most renowned deli – was awarded a prestigious Michelin Bib Gourmand this past November, and I hadn’t been there for a couple years,…
Trying a Brand New Steak Shop in Media, PA
The plan for this week’s post had been to revisit one of the cheesesteak purveyors on my top 20 list. But it came to my attention a couple weeks ago that a new steak shop was about to open in Media, Pennsylvania, where my wife and I eat fairly regularly. So I called an audible…
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