This week's episode of No Reservations took place in Chicago, and except for Anthony Bourdain's jab against Chicagoans—where he said something like, “These are not small people”—it was one of the better chronicles of the Windy City’s tasty offerings. Local super-journalist and cook Louisa Chu served as Bourdain’s fixer and she definitely knows her stuff. Reportedly, while they were here, Anthony and his crew ate at the Ramova Grill in Bridgeport, but no mention of Chicago’s supreme diner made the air. It should have. If you loved the segment on the die-hard irascible Burt Katz and his pizza at Burt’s Place, you would have loved a segment on the Ramova. Founded in 1929, it’s the diner ideal—a place Edward Hopper,...
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