It is 3500 miles from Philadelphia. But for the fans of the eagles, it seems to be at home.

Benjamin Franklin, prominent colonial roaming, notice once that the house was not just a place, something or food. He said: “The house is not a house, unless it contains a heat for the mind, as well as the body.”

After centuries, JP Teti, Philadelphia’s accidental ambassador to England, also learned: city – no, people – she cannot stay on cheese alone.

If the headquarters of the American power in London is residing at the embassy, ​​a large part of its soul can be found on the Cleveland Street in central London, confined between the traditional British architecture, in the form of a brave diving bar: Baskynk Street, called in its favor the famous South Fili road.

It should be transferred inward. The pendants from Philadelphia schools framing windows; Shirts and blouses are hanging from the rafters. The dollar bills with the scribble signature paper walls. Among the many American -manufactured bars in London, Passyung Street is a simple fact that it is not a way to circumvent.

One of the daughters of Mr. Teti, The Bar is Makkah of some kind for American sports fans away from home. Warm, loud and dramatically drawing from the famous sport mania Feli (V), it meets Passynk Street to anyone who almost hopes to watch the prevailing American sport. But it surrounded an emerging market: the American Football Association, which It is increasingly popular among international masses. Commissioner Roger Jodel said he is He hopes that the league will expand abroad And, one day, see Super Bowl played in Europe.

Such noble ambitions, though, feel eyes away from a comfortable bumper for Baraz Bar Baskan Street this week, days before the Philadelphia Eagles’ march to a match match with Kansas City Chevings. Sitting between Tchotchkes and prizes, it is not really really about shape or cheese. It’s never truly It was from that.

We are not a sports bar. We diving.

Mr. Teti remembers exactly where it was in January 2018, before the last Super Bowl victory in Philadelphia (and the first): inflammation and despair under the railway bow in southeast London, where he mobilized his cheese truck forever.

The truck was a brief experience for Mr. Titi, who arose from the division between southern New Jersey and South Feli, where he had a group of Italian cousins, before moving to London to work. He was convinced that he could win the city, moved away from his 2016 commercial job over the gambling that the British might roam the famous Sandwich in Philadelphia.

But the ropes of meat slices from a trailer did not reinforce the society that Mr. Titi was hoping for.

“This is not what I imagined,” he remembers thinking about that time. “I want to transfer it away from being Chestek. We’ll create a cultural site in the form of a Philly diving bar.”

Despite many bars in central London, authentic diving cannot feel further. This did not prevent many bars from trying, but efforts often feel that it is the American Disney Land Corps. The missing is the details that have been tested for time, but it only misses it as soon as you are an ocean: the neon palpal. Football in the background. Gum and screaming stool takes from strangers.

These small touches are taken seriously in Philadelphia, where Culture bar diving Precedent The country itselfAnd words like “Grit” and “GRIME” are less than honor badges. (Atlantic City’s barrier once sued the Philadelphia magazine after it was called “diving”. According to the magazine editor: “This is a place of place that cannot take a courtesy.”)

At the risk of tea in the parable of the parable: the quail culture is not the same.

With a renewed sense of target, Mr. Teti rented an space in the Fitzrovia neighborhood in London and opened its doors in March 2018. The business, known as Liberty Cheesesteak Company, was renamed when it was running out of the main artery truck in South Feli, where Rocky Balboa, where Pat and Jeno trained (exaggeratedChelestek houses are still waging the generations war. Mr. Teti had bought the name as a web site for a whims years ago.

“I do not sell cheese. It was always, for me, the participation of the cultural heritage that made my upbringing special.” It is now one of three – soon – to be four sites, all of whom are waiting for hundreds of depths of Sunday match, despite the start of 11:30 pm. This Super Bowl is very different here, now, from what it was in 2018.

Mr. Titi said about his barrier, a muffled laugh: “It was not possible that he had survived six months.” “But she did.”

“This is Philly, through and through”

Passynk Avenue is not only about cheese, and since Mr. Teti and any bitter fans of Philadelphia will tell you, the eagles do not revolve around football. Lombardy is the sacred cup more than the cup, the end of what can only be described as a torture emotional pilgrimage. In fact, the eagles are the least hobby of religion, as it is rooted in the collective identity of the city, such as Benjamin Franklin, as the soul music, k Citywide Served from a scratch in two streets.

Mr. Teti’s Bar is a student. It raises the licenses late at night to solve the problem of the difference in time for American games after working hours. The tape found a Dutch butcher that can cut a steak in the right way, and developed its busts when the British dietary codes do not allow real things (?).

“This is very specific American, do you know what I mean?” ” “This is Philly, through and lesson.”

Passynk Avenue Fides has stars. The Kelce brothers, including the retired eagle center, recorded the famous podcast “New Heights” From the bar. Velez manager, Rob Thompson, I stopped to withdraw When the team played a series in London last year. Brent Celik, retired eagles tight end, Once a company there with the Lombardy Cup.

But the real credentials of the Passynk Avenu Street are their walls, with no bare inch on the horizon. It is an fashionable sea: scribble messages like “Delco” or “Wooder from the Crick”, in honoring the famous famous Philly dialect. Southern Jersey March. Wawa shopping bag can be reusable, it was collapsed just as if it was pulled from a back seat and was transferred to the wall.

(It is likely that one of the owners is drunk with what, most likely to a stranger, seems to be a harmful pillar: the head of a stuffed eagle. It was, in fact, the head of the donated fashion, the official amulet. Internationally distorted by Philadelphia online fansThe dead man returned the head, without getting injured, the next day).

Ms. Riley said that every piece of decoration was donated, often taken from sponsors, as they set out from feeling that they took a shirt from their appearance on the bar.

“I have worked in many museums,” said Ms. Riley, dated trade. “I feel that I am playing more culture in this place more than ever in any museum in which I have ever worked.”

“Birds”

I wandered on Passynk for the first time on Tuesday before Super Bowl, dark and Pining for the fylie week. I left the city for years, but I went back regularly to watch the big games with my brother. Rich in the ocean, we will spend this super bow.

The house is not cheese, or even a football team. Instead, I found this in these diving Fitzrovia bands, only dedicated to those who know to search: the gentle extension of “O”, which turns it into “OWH“Unoffer” Yu “, such as punctuation and separation. Soft”Shah ” Mr. Titi adds to a second clip of “Passynk”.

This is a deep bone, for anyone who left a place they love.

Mrs. Riley will see a match on Sunday in the jacket of the beginning of the nineties, which she had decades ago – and she withdraws from a chair and displays the interior name, and still bears the echo of the childhood scribble. Mr. Teti will be at the Leake Street tunnel, near Battersea on Passynk Street. There, they arranged for a back door style party, in honor of the game scene in the Lincoln Financial field, the home eagles stadium.

On the bar, we go away from predictions, caution against ninux. I will return to Chestec soon, pledge, and press the door forward in the gray cold in London.

“Go in birds,” I say above my shoulder.

Beyond me, a familiar choir, parting: Go birds.