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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Photo | Drew Lazor

Today's the day for Shank's Original (120 S. 15th St., 215-629-1093), the Center City reincarnation of the long-running Shank's and Evelyn's in South Philly. Much to A.D. Amorosi's disappointment, some of the more "traditional" Italian Market faves � the tripe, for one � have been nixed at the new place (formerly J.B. Pastrami's), but that doesn't mean Pamela Poppa (daughter of Frank and Evelyn Perri) is changing things up dramatically. On the contrary � they're doing simple breakfast sandwiches, hoagies, burgers, dogs and salads to sate the a.m. and lunch crowds, in addition to signatures like their chicken cutlet sandwich and their $21.95 Giambotti (jam-bot), the feeds-a-crowd omelette that consists of six eggs and pretty much every meat and veggie imaginable. (For what it's worth, if you Google "Giambotti," this first result is this 2007 Finding Philly post, and the second is a geneology site that employs the phrase "average life expectancy.") The Insider's got the full menu. They're open till 6 p.m. on weekdays only for now.

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