text: It is midnight and a half and I have got the munchies after spending an evening at the poolside drinking ciders and chatting with a great friend I take the dog out for her nighttime walk and to grab the mail and once I get home I go through the stack of weekly flyers that jam my mailbox when I come across a familiar name Genos nn Now this name means something to me Genos is my favourite cheesesteak experienced a number of times during trips out to Philadelphia and perpetually missed I feel some misgivings about seeing a new place that has blatantly stolen the name of a landmark but decide to give them a shot having been wooed by their big bold claims of being open superlatenn I had passed by the location earlier in the day so finding Genos was easy peasy and at am there was no line so my order was in quick as a whistle I mill about impressed at a massive array of hot sauces on the counter but otherwise bored by the blatant ZOMGPHILADELPHIA decor In a very reasonable time the cute girl behind the counter hands me a foil tube which felt a bit light but still held promise of tasty timesnn Rather than eating in I bring the steak home to give the meat juices and cheese sauce apparently not cheese whiz proper time to soak into the roll Unrolling it I notice that the paper wrapper inside the foil is remarkably clean and my heart sinks a bit at the suggestion of a lack of the aforementioned meat juice and whiz I finish unwrapping the steak and find a roll unlike the soft spongy bread that I am used to rather one that is a little dry and crusty on the edges and dusted with corn meal nn I ordered a whole because I am not a little girl so I tear the steak in half and notice how little meat is in the sandwich so little that there is an entire inch and a half at one end of the sandwich that has no filling at all Not good but I am in this for the long haul I take my first bite into a center bit and while the flavor is okay it is markedly dry and not nearly gooey with whiz enough I soldier on and notice a great inconsistency in the onions some cut into thin strips and others still in big chunks The rest of the sandwich was as dry as the first bite and the corn meal dusting on the bread distracts from what flavor was there nn In the end I really do not feel like I got my nine bucks worth of cheesesteak so I am going to file this place away as a latenight desperation call but definitely never a first choice