Name: Portillo’s
Location: Greater Chicago
Meal: Multiple (Italian Beef, Chop Salad, Garbage Salad)
Type: Local Restaurant
Portillo’s is one of my favorite restaurants when it comes to Chicago food. What they do best, is doing so many things well. Not only do they serve one of the best Italian Beef sandwiches around, they also serve great Chicago style hot [...]
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Portillo’s – Chicago,IL
Posted in Sandwich, tagged chicago, chopped salad, garbage salad, italian beef, portillo's, salad, Sandwich, sweet pepper on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Al’s Beef – Chicago,IL
Posted in Sandwich, tagged al's, al's beef, cheese fries, chicago, chicago food, italian beef, pepsi, Sandwich on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Name: Al’s Beef
Location: Chicago, IL
Meal: Italian Beef sandwich, Cheese fries, and Pepsi
Type: Sandwich
Chicago, besides being a great city of its own right, is a city torn between three culinary poster-children. You can find good support for the Chicago hot dog, the deep dish pizza, or the Italian beef being the food to best associate with [...]
Frontera Grill – Chicago, IL
Posted in Mexican, tagged chicago, flautas, frontera grill, grilled onions, guacamole, margaritas, Mexican, rick bayless, salsa, tacos, top chef on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Name: Frontera Grill
Location: Chicago, IL
Meal: Margaritas, Guacamole, Flautas, and Tacos Carbon
Type: Mexican
Rick Bayless is amazing. I’m pretty sure any of the words I could write up about my experience at Frontera Grill would distract from that key point. From my personal experience I can tell you that everything you’ve seen on Top Chef, in newspaper [...]
Superdawg – Chicago,IL
Posted in Hot Dog, tagged chicago, chicago-style hot dog, Hot Dog, hot dog stand, superdawg on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Name: Superdawg
Location: Chicago, IL
Meal: Chicago-style hot dog and a chocolate milkshake
Type: Hot Dog Joint
As previously noted Chicago food is a food lover’s paradise. Two foods in particular scream ‘Chicago’ to the outside world louder than anything else: deep dish pizza and the Chicago-style hot dog. As someone who drew up outside Philadelphia with the Pat’s [...]
Harold’s Chicken – Chicago,IL
Posted in Chicken, tagged chicago, fried chicken, fry sandwich, harold's on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Name: Harold’s Chicken Shack
Location: Chicago’s Southside
Meal: Quarter Chicken with mild sauce, Fries, Cole Slaw, and a Pepsi
Type: Chicken joint
You could write extensively on just the wonders of Chicago cuisine, both highbrow and lowbrow. My limited travels to the Windy City have only amounted to a very tiny scratch on the surface of Chicago cuisine. I [...]
