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Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Nice to see that two Southwest Side places are on the list ... but nothing for the prime rib at Richie's?? It has got to be the best prime rib on the South Side - if not the city.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
also you can check out Flo, Toast, and Over Easy... All do a pretty good job. Have fun!
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Gepperths is a wonderful place owned by wonderful people. Agreed.
My favorite breakfast is Lula Cafe up in Lincoln Square- food is great. service can be touch and go, but if you're out for a slow Sunday brunch, no big deal, have a cocktail, it's the weekend :) expect a wait, and don't be surprised by all of the too cool for themselves hipsters.
Lou Mitchell's is just ok- but gives fresh donuts on the weekend as you wait and milk duds to kids
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Wow Mr. Nagrant you really got some stones thrown at you in the comment section. While I have only lived in Chicago for two years I think your review is really exceptional. The mentioning of pequod's, Al's and GEPPERTHS! I think you really got it down, awesome summary!
Please note indigenous Chicagoans there is no mention of LouMalnatis here. Mostly because its not good.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
I am looking for a best breakfast place in Chicago . Funkyness encouraged since I am of the Friendly Toast, Portsmouth, NH school.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
I am still looking for top steakhouses. What comes to mind is Smith and Wollensky, Chicago Chophouse, Gibsons, and Gene and Georgetti. Any others that I should consider?
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
I GREW UP AROUND 18TH AND ASHLAND
THERE USE TO BE AN ITALIAN RESTRAUNT ON THE NORTH/EAST CORNER OF ASHLAND AND 18TH NAMED
DV'S PIZZA ATTACHED TO FOREMOST LIQUORS
ON THAT CORNER.
THIS WAS DURING THE 50'S AND EARLY 60'.
DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHEN IT CLOSED DOWN OR IF IT RELOCATED.
A MUST PLACE TO EAT IS ON 1079 TAYLOR AL'S BEEF.
THE COMBO BEEF/ITALIAN SAUSAGE IS A MUST WITH GREEN PEPPERS/GIADANER AND DIPPED IN THE GRAVY. A MUST.PLACE TO EAT.
U MUST GO TO HALSTED AND 12TH STREET MAXWELL FOR THE OUTSIDE EATERIES ON A SUNDAY. ALL KINDS OF GOODIES AND GREAT BLUES MUSIC ON THE STREETS
I AM NOW IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS, BUT STILL SEE MY CUBS ON CABLE TV WGN. BEST EATS CHICAGO
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Spacca Napoli. Got it, I'm on my way! We've been searching high and low for Neopolitan pizza and keep getting that cracker crust which as a true New Yorker means sacrelidge! And pan style makes me full and bloated just looking at it.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Oh, this is great! I'd love to see these city guides Google-mapped.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Shalom--if you're coming in from Indy, hit Mabenka's at 79th and Cicero. Ask for an end cut of kugele. The veal cutlets are quite good too, but skip the latkes.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
I've gotta say I've always called Chicago pizza deep dish not stuffed, too. I've always heard it called deep dish too. Then again, we canucks tend to be viewed as backwards. :P
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
I'd say the single best overall Polish restaurant in the city is Smak-Tak. It's like a little wood chalet cabin inside, and after tasting 13 pierogies in one afternoon, their's were the best.
Likewise, someone asked about steak....everyone's mileage may vary based on the kind of cut they like, the ambiance etc....and there are many contenders, but the dry aged prime bone-in ribeye from Primehouse is my favorite cut.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
Italian Beef:
As Detroit’s sage poet, Eminem, once said, “All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating, so won’t the real Slim Shady please stand up.” The Italian beef world is crowded with thousands of corner shacks serving up indiscriminate reheated pre-packaged beef from Scala or Vienna on a thick roll. As a result, a great beef rises when it has a few simple outlying qualities. In the case of the original Taylor St. location of Al’s, those qualities include freshly roasted meat with 11 herbs and spices, including a definite sweet nutmeg warmth, as well as hot fennel giardinara. Though, a close second is Chickie’s hot pepper topped beef version featuring wafer thin sliced green pepper and onion that offers a tongue satisfying crunchy textural counterpoint to the soft layers of meat. Though sometimes, beef needs a buddy, and the “combo” featuring a hunk of Italian sausage is best at Johnnie’s in Elmwood Park where the links are hardwood charcoaled fired and the beef is so thin, it’s almost translucent.
Serious Eats City Guide: Chicago
How about Eastern European restaurants? For me, the whole reason to make the trip from Indy is for some rockin' pierogi, borscht, and paczki! Any recs?
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Nice to see that two Southwest Side places are on the list ... but nothing for the prime rib at Richie's?? It has got to be the best prime rib on the South Side - if not the city.