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Article: CLAIM YOUR STEAK THE ELUSIVE PHILLY SANDWICH COMES TO ENCINO.(L.A. Life) (restaurant review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2001
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Byline: Larry Lipson Restaurant Critic
Ruth Chu moved to Pennsylvania as a teen-ager and fell in love with Philly cheese steak sandwiches.
When she came to California in the early '90s, she had trouble finding a Philadelphia-style cheese steak sandwich that matched the ones she had savored back East.
The entrepreneurial young woman decided to do it herself.
Her first outlet in the San Fernando Valley, Philadelphia Kitchen in Encino, replaces a kabob house in a bright, cheerful little plaza bedecked with umbrella-topped tables.