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| - The Good: AWESOME Flavor, Nice Portion Sizes
The Bad: Crowded, Lack of Staff
Both Good and Bad: The Help
On the advice of a friend, and serious foodie who works in Malvern, I made the trek into John's Pizza for lunch around 12:30 on a Thursday. To start, the place was mobbed. Now that's a bit of a "bad" because they didn't have the staff to handle the rush (1 pizza cook/cashier, 1 grill cook, and 1 waitress), but at the same time it says to me that they must be doing something right to draw such a crowd. After about 45 mins the place started to clear out and by 1:30 pm it was a ghost town, so I can understand the extra staff not being needed the whole time, but if it's like that everyday they need to figure out a better system. Those were the only drawbacks on my experience.
Myself, and another guy from work sat at the counter by the grill and each ordered a large cheese steak with fried onions, a large soda, and we split a order of onion rings. Total cost was $28 ($24 + $4 tip).
While we were waiting for our food the grill cook was making hoagies in front of us and mumbling to himself like a madman drinking Charlie Sheen tiger blood. The older gentleman that was the pizza cook was either off in space plotting his revenge on the cook or staring down customers, I'm not sure, and it was a little uncomfortable looking for some other guys eating at the counter with their heads down not talking. The waitress was tossing in comments on occasion to keep things interesting. Some have talked about bickering and such between the crew, and we didn't get to see that but there was definitely a festering blowup in the making and it was kind of like watching an auto-race waiting for the accident. I found it entertaining, but like I said it was clean.
The onion rings came out first and we munched on those while waiting for our steaks. The nicely cooked rings with real onion inside were pretty good. About 5 mins later the very well proportioned steaks were served. I really wasn't expecting anything special but was pleasantly surprised with my first bite. There is a distinctive flavor to the cheese steak that I couldn't place. Is it the steak, the cheese, or maybe the yellow stuff in the bottle (see the pic of the cook) that is sprayed on each steak as it finishes cooking? It might as well have been Ambrosia, because each bite of the cheese steak squirted forth with that flavor and my taste buds were in heaven.
I'm not sure where to place this steak in my list. Maybe #2 behind Mamma's in Bala Cynwyd but maybe #1. I can't give this place a 5 (it wasn't a perfect experience), but think of it as a 4.5 and rounded down. All in all an excellent lunch that will have to be repeated again and again!
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