STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 You can feel the love as you walk into a large tiki hut on South Hutchinson Island in Martin County. That’s because Philly Down South is bringing the City of Brotherly Love to Stuart. <\/p>\n
And, true to its name, Philly Down South is the winner of ARC Florida’s Dishin’ It Out for Best Cheesesteak. <\/p>\n
Owner Jim Leary had his own restaurant in Philadelphia before relocating to South Florida. Then he started his own food trailer, which became quite popular. He got a call from the Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island that said they wanted him to take over their upstairs cafe. While that was slow starting – Leary had a big idea. He decided to turn the parking lot into a tiki hut. Now it’s become the home of great music, incredible Philly fare, and the place to watch when there’s a big Eagles game. <\/p>\n
Leary joined the crew on ARC Florida to talk more about how Philly Down South came to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 You can feel the love as you walk into a large tiki hut on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-402488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}