There's nothing quite like a hot dog and cold beer on a summer night at a Phillies game. But sometimes you want to eat something a little more exciting. The New York Times Travel section gives Citizens Bank Park props for having some of the best options in the Bigs.
But the prize for vernacular food probably goes to Citizens Bank
Park, the four-year-old home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Most of the
action takes place in Ashburn Alley (named for the Hall of Famer Richie
Ashburn), a brick promenade behind center field where fans can
practically hang over the visitors’ bullpen or dine under the giant
Liberty Bell sign that lights up and rocks back and forth when the
Phillies hit a home run.
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Ashburn Alley is home to hoagies,
Chickie & Pete’s crab fries (French fries dusted with Old Bay
seasoning) and two of the city’s respected cheese steak purveyors,
Rick’s Steaks and Tony Luke’s. Tony Luke’s had the better cheese steak
of the two (though their other locations are notably superior). Even
better is Tony Luke’s juicy roasted pork and provolone sandwich,
dressed with tender broccoli rabe, as good a meat sandwich as there is
in the majors.Also not to be missed is the Schmitter sandwich from McNally’s, an
outpost of an 87-year-old Germantown tavern at the end of Ashburn
Alley. It’s not named for the Phillies legend Mike Schmidt, but rather,
I was told, after a long-gone McNally’s customer who always ordered it
with Schmidt’s Beer, the now-defunct Pennsylvania brand.
This article reminds me, it's been way to long since I've had a Schmitter.
>>Buy me some sushi and baby-back ribs [NYTimes via theIlladelph]