A decent first showing. I got wind of this place from that Instagram goofball that runs out of breath talking, but the cheesesteak looked great, and I can't resist a well done cheesie. SO, decided to give them a try, as they aren't too far from me. (about 15 minutes.)
Ordering was easy enough, but this process is what actually cost them the 5 star. I'll circle back to this....
The building is nice and spacious, with a very modern look and feel. Something that is awesome, if used as it should be, is basically a wall of hot boxes; lockers where they put your food that you can retrieve with a QR code. A GREAT idea, with a fatal flaw.
Circling back now, that hot wall locker was actually my meals undoing. I placed a future pick up order a little bit before 5 pm. The pick up time was for 5:30. At 5:06, I get a message with a QR code, telling me that my food is ready to be picked up from the locker. Now, it's great that they wanted to keep my food warm for me, but they made my order almost THIRTY MINUTES EARLY, and put it in these sweat boxes. By the time I got to my food, my fries were INEDIBLE. The cheesesteak wrapper had condensation all over it. My meal was a sweaty mess. There is no reason to prepare food that early in advance, but with the lockers available, I'm sure it's something they do fairly often.
Also, the sandwich is a slightly fancier version, with fried mushrooms and garlic aoili, but the mushrooms were soggy and pale and I couldn't taste a DROP of garlic aoili. Still, a decent sandwich so I'm not mad, but Waffa isn't good enough for me to drive past better places.
This is supposed to be a DESSERT place, so maybe that's their wheelhouse, but I have a ton of those options near me as well.
If you do go, they are weirdly situated next to a traffic circle, so you gotta pay attention to where you're going. read more