Choose Your Cheesesteak Wisely

If you've been in Philadelphia for longer than 20 seconds, there's a good chance you've come in contact with at least one restaurant serving cheesesteaks. As the city's unofficial mascot, cheesesteaks represent the ultimate unifying experience: entering your chosen place of fine whiz dining as a farewell to your juice cleanse, waiting in a line full of people checking their email for the 30th time this hour and the climactic moment when the cashier, your new best friend, hands over that hot, foil-wrapped ticket to heaven. Think it can't get any better? Think again.

Dramatic recap aside, technology has recently made finding that perfect cheesesteak even easier. PhillySteakOut is a site that claims to list a "real-time ranking" of check-ins and ratings of the top 25  cheesesteak joints in the area, essentially revolutionizing your lunchtime indecision (if you're into cheesesteak). Even cooler, it lists the percentages of locals and tourists that visit next to each place's name (note that the last place on the list, Steak 'Em Up, has the highest percentage of visiting locals--90%).

As far as West Philly goes, Abner's (next to Chili's and the underground strip club for those less familiar) is currently #19! Have a favorite place that's not on the list yet? Grab your smartphone and an appetite; it's literally that easy.