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Restaurant: Metro Caffe (San Francisco)
Food description: Thinly sliced beef chopped up and topped with American cheese, grilled onions, and hot peppers, served on a long roll
Food rating: 6.5 out of 10
Times ordered: 7

Being from Philly, the cheese steaks at Metro Caffe have some work to do before I'd consider it a "Philly" cheese steak, but not bad for San Francisco. I come here occasionally since it's local, but if I want a Philly cheese steak, I'll trek to Cheese Steak Shop for the real deal. Metro Caffe's version has some issues. First, the meat has some hard chewy tendony things in it, which are gross and could be solved by using better meat. Sometimes they use way too much black pepper, so the meat gets too spicy. There's also never enough cheese on it, so I have to order extra cheese. The roll is too soft and should be crustier, and there's too much roll compared to the amount of meat they put inside. If you don't mind those things, the actual flavor is decent overall, but very heavy. The bottom line is if you're in the mood for a cheese steak, but can't get to Cheese Steak Shop for whatever reason, this place is an acceptable alternative.