Bradley's Steaks and Hoagies

Our first stop for this blog was Bradley's Steaks and Hoagies. This humble place is located on the corner of Calder and Pugh Street. If there's any advice we can give before going; it's go hungry. The portions are heaping, but delicious nonetheless. The rolls are freshly baked each day at a nearby bakery, which gives each sandwich an extra boost of flavor. The fries are freshly cut from potatoes, and are not frozen. The chicken for the chicken cheese steaks is marinated before served. The beef for the cheese steaks is shipped from Philadelphia, the home of this staple sandwich.

The food comes out very fast, so if you're trying to get a bite in between classes it's completely possible.

It is open late (3 am on the weekends), and would definitely satisfy those late night cravings.

They accept LionCash and deliver too, which makes it very convenient.

The price may be a bit higher than what you might normally pay for a cheese steak in State College, but it is in its own league, and is definitely worth the money.

For a cheese steak and a drink, you should expect to pay around $8, add in some fries and you'll pay around $11. The small fries are no small portion as we have pictured in this blog. The sandwich will surely fill you up on its own. Bradley's does in fact deliver, and Thursday through Saturday, they are open until 3am.

For the sake of the blog, four of us went and each got something different. At the table we had an order of fries, a buffalo chicken cheese steak, a cheese steak with fried onions, a pizza steak, and a pepperoni pizza steak, and each of them were delicious.

The buffalo chicken cheese steak is accompanied by bleu cheese that some call amazing. This only helps boost the amazing flavor of the marinated chicken and the delicious buffalo sauce. The chicken is not as finely chopped as a regular cheese steak, but that does not take away from the flavor. This is truly a force to be reckoned with. (For a smaller portion, Bradley's also offers the Buffalo Chicken Grilled Cheese sandwich).

The cheese steak, it's what keeps us going back here. The meat is delicious and the bread makes it so much better. The beef is very tender and is never gritty. When you bite into the sandwich, you get a clean bite and aren't left pulling out strands of fatty beef from the bread. Everything about their cheese steak is simply amazing. That's what brings us to try the pizza steaks.

The pizza steak introduces a nice helping of pizza sauce to the sandwich. The sauce really compliments the flavor of the cheese steak. When you add some pepperoni though, it takes it to a whole new level. I was skeptical about trying it, because I wasn't sure if beef and pepperoni would really go together off of a pizza. I'm now a believer. The combination is perfect together, especially from Bradley's.