Jim's Steaks

Jim's Steaks
Jim's Steaks
Restaurant information
Established	1939
Current owner(s)	Proetto family (three locations); Silver family (South Street location)
Food type	North American cuisine
City	Philadelphia
State	Pennsylvania
Postal/ZIP Code	19147
Country	United States
Website	Jim's Steaks Official Website; Jim's South Street Website

Jim's Steaks is a Philadelphia restaurant specializing in cheesesteaks, founded in 1939.

In the 1930s, "Jim and Millie" offered sandwiches from their house in West Philadelphia. In 1939, they converted the house into "Jim's Steak's" [sic] location. William Proetto and his brother bought that location in the early 1960s. In 1976, Proetto and Abner Silver opened a location on South Street.

Today, the Proetto family owns three Jim's locations. Silver's family owns the South Street location.

In 2016, NJ.com searched the web and named Jim's Steaks one of 10 Philadelphia cheesesteak shops that are worth a visit. Jim's was selected based on winning a series of polls of the readers of the Philadelphia Business Journal, winning "Cheesesteak Madness".

In 2014, while in town for the opening of Ride Along, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube gave away cheesesteaks at Jim's South Street location.

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