Yesterday, my brother mentioned it is almost impossible to find an authentic Philly cheese steak outside of Philadelphia. This is mostly true. Even in Princeton, which is only 45 minutes away, you can’t get a real cheesesteak. Hoagie Haven (Princeton, NJ) is good, but not authentic.
There are, however, some exceptions. One is Southside Steaks in Pittsburgh:
There was nothing good in the building cafeteria on Friday, so I tried the new Thai and Sushi place that just opened downtown:
Apparently, there are special events for food bloggers. Would love to meet other Pittsburgh food bloggers. Restaurant week is August 11-17.
D and I have enjoyed Pittsburgh’s Restaurant Week (both summer and winter) since they started it 2 years ago, even reviewing 3 restaurants this winter for our blog. So, when we saw that they were hosting a special dinner for Food Bloggers who cover restaurant week, we jumped at the chance to go. Now, we have only been doing this for a little over 3 months and we are starting to settle in with things, but we didn’t realize how much more there was that went in to a blog. When we arrived at Six Penn Kitchen for the dinner we started to meet a few other bloggers, who immediately hand us their business cards (“oh, you guys don’t have a card? – Oops) and then, they began to ask us about how we “network” ourselves to get our blog to reach as many people as possible (you mean besides…
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Normally, I’m a huge fan of Six Penn Kitchen. It’s conveniently located downtown near our offices, and when I had a new hire on Monday, I decided to take him somewhere nice for lunch. The food there is generally excellent. Unfortunately, on Monday, I chose to have the “special”:
