I'm a cheesesteak freak. I do admit that I am not from Philly so my take is purely with regard to what tastes good to me.
As far as this place, I'd been wanting to go here for a long, long time as I'd heard a number of good reviews on it. We hit it last night after the Yelp Rocks! event and I was pretty let down. I got a cheesesteak with wiz and and an order of fries.
As far as the cheesesteak itself, it was ok. Nothing stellar though. The bread was good. I was pretty let down on the meat though. It had a good amount of gristle in it & was quite chewy. I also wasn't a big fan of the wiz. Now I'm not sure how this works but I thought the wiz was the easy part. I LOVE wiz on a cheesesteak. Figured you just order the giant cans of Cheese Wiz, open them up, heat & ladle it on. It didn't taste like straight wiz to me. Almost seemed like it was a wiz based cream/cheese sauce or something???? Just give me the straight wiz, please.
Then the fries... Don't all cheesesteak places have great fries? The fries were awful. They were soggy & grease laden. I NEVER leave fries on the plate & actually dumped 1/2 the order. Super disappointed in the fries...
I feel bad because I'm a big, big fan of cheesesteaks and had heard such good things. We also live quite close and I love any place that is open late/all night. Maybe my expectations were out of whack. I don't know. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be in a hurry to head back.