Philly's Best

Philly's best is unfortunately nowhere near the best Philly sandwich I've had and is not even as flavorful as the new Subway series Philly sandwiches from Subway. Philly best portion sizes are great, but once you get over the size of the sandwich, unfortunately its all downhill from there. The biggest issue is the Philly sandwich only comes with meat and onions....no peppers. This is essentially unacceptable for any Philly sandwich and in my opinion, the absence of peppers disqualifies it as even being a Philly. I grew up in New York, Dad from Philadelphia and spent many summers in Philly and at the Jersey shore boardwalk food vendors and thus I've had hundreds of Philly sandwiches from all along the East Coast, none of which ever came without peppers. This baffled me completely. Without the peppers, I never got any of the flavor I was expecting from the Philly. I could only envision a restaurant backstory where maybe, once upon a time Philly's Best had an owner who actually was from the East coast but sold the place off at some point and retired and the new owners had never been to Philadelphia. I ate half the sandwich and brought the other half home where I added tri color grilled peppers and extra cheese and this brought the sandwich back from the dead. I also tried the seasoned fries which were oddly just overly salty and didn't hit with flavor the way I expected them too. If you're ordering takeout, you.might be ok if you doctor your food when you get it home, otherwise if you're looking to fill a craving for a Philly and are dining in, sadly, you might want to head to Subway.

I love their philly chicken sandwiches they are just so expensive otherwise. A large with extra meat cost me $23.00. I first started ordering from them when they were in Evanston Illinois back in the early 2000's a large Philly chicken was about $8.00 no more than $10.00... I know inflation changes everything...

This place is great but this is the second time my order was wrong because the guy ringing up my order had rung it up incorrectly. He always rushes and rushes you and idk if he’s irritated or what but I’m always like bruh please chill. My family loves this place and they live out of town. So I placed a big order for 2 chicken Philly’s/2 steak Philly’s and I got home in another state and they were 4 steak Philly’s. Then yesterday I had some cheese fries (seasoned) with a chicken Philly and my cheese fries was regular… the dude at the front cash register needs to slow down and quit cutting ppl off.

I found this place while I was picking up my dad from the Chicago train station I came in from Detroit and was hungry after the drive. It's less than 5 min from the train station and they food was excellent! Atmosphere is like most places after covid seemed like mostly carryout but then again it was also 10 o'clock at night so I'm sure that played a factor. Anyway, I got the chicken Philly with hot peppers on top and my dad got the steak Philly hot peppers on the side and the philly fries with cream cheese dip. My only suggestion to those who want hot peppers is getting them on the side and adding yourself or specifying light oil when adding peppers on top my sandwich was heavy on the oil and hard to eat but tasted exactly how i was expecting it to! I'll be back!

I've been look at this place for a while and l should have listened to the reviews. However l feel you have to try it for yourself. The $61 l spent on my order was a waste, l should have went to the grocery store and cooked for my family. When you walk in there were 2 resturants in the same building. The hallway was dark and the dingy. The railing waling up the stairs was sticky. I again shoukd have turned around, but l proceeded up the stairs into the door of the restaurant. I got to the register and advised the younf man that this was my first time here. He was not very welcoming. I had to ask what he recommended for a firat tim customer. He said the Philly the the garlic bread. So l placed my order. We had 2 slices of pizza, which was very good. I didn't care for the Philly chicken with the garlic bread or steak with regular bread that was ordered. By the time made it home all of our fries were hard and cold. I ordered a regular fry, a seasoned fry, and a fry with mild sauce. I called back to inform thqt l was not satisfied with my order and was advised you have to bring the food back. So l took the fries back the next day. l thought was getting a refund, however this was not the case. We were offered an exchange for the 2 orders of fries we returned and got 2 slices of pizza (which was very good). So to sum it up of l were to go back it would be to get a slice of their delicious pizza.

Only other Philly Steak to give it competition is "Suzie's" and they are no longer open. This place has no indoor seating but worth taking it to go.

Always come here. Best phillys. But today While waiting for food the man who you give your ticket to for food coughed in his hands and did not wash them. The cook cooking the steak was chewing gum while doing so yuck ! No one had gloves, no one was washing their hands after touching things and no hair nets. Had hair in my buffalo chicken Philly.

Get the garlic bread with your sub so good. Fries were ok.

Steak was okay. When I went to pick it up I asked if I could sit on one of the many unoccupied chairs around the restaurant while they finished making it. I was told forcibly that those chairs were not to be sat on by an employee sitting in a chair. Kinda made for a bizarre atmosphere with me standing over him and his many unoccupied chairs while they finished making the sandwich.

Where do I begin when my review is literally the name of the restaurant honestly one of the best Philly I have ever had. It did not disappoint not one bit....