Andrea A. wrote: >From: [email removed] (Andrea M. Atkin) >Subject: chicago is famous for... >Date: 30 Mar 1994 21:53:35 GMT > you could order anything at uno's or due's and be happy. Absolutely. If you like sausage, theirs is great. Thick pieces, great seasoning. >chicago style hot dogs! Gold Coast Dogs (N. State or Rush, I can't remember which) is my favorite. >my favorite restaurant in chicago is the frontera grill. I couldn't agree more. My wife and I are Chicago natives and we came back in for New Years Eve last year. Where do you think we went-- That's right. Frontera Grill. It is truly awesome. >there's a very good, very crowded, and reasonably priced japanese >restaurant on clark street a couple blocks north of belmont (about 3400 >north), called matsuya. Also one of my favorites. Good sushi. This is getting pretty far afield from what Chicago is "Famous" for, but I can't stop. If you like tapas, try Cafe Baba-Reeba on North Halsted. The more people you have, the more fun it will be. For a Greek variant on tapas, try the restaurant in the Embassy Suites hotel between Ohio and Ontario (I can't remember the name of the restaurant). For fun (and good) Italian, try Scoozi, in the River North area. And no, for all of you who recognize the common ownership of these restaurants, I don't work for Richard Melman or Lettuce Entertain You. I just like their restaurants.:) Enjoy. Mike Berman
Chicago, IL
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Daniel C. wrote: > > I thought I heard/read somewhere that Poochies is supposed to have the best > Chicago dogs in the area. I think they're in Skokie- I've only been there once > and they are really good. > :-Dan Let's start flame-wars.dogs.expat-chicagoans I vote for Gold Coast Dogs, especially for the Polish Sausage. However, it is essential to get them at one of their two "original" stores (on Hubbard or on Belden), and not at one of their "new" places (I made the mistake of eating at their stand at McCormick Place last summer, and it was baaad - but probably good enough for tourists). ------------------------- | CN Haas | (this space reserved Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering | for the usual Drexel University | disclaimers) Philadelphia PA | :::::[email removed] | -------------------------
All you ex-patriates must have lived and eaten on the North Side. The best Vienna red hots in the city are sold at a sidewalk stand around 71st and Western (just before Southwest Highway goes off on a diagnol toward Evergreen Park). The name of the place is something like Little John's or the like. Vienna red hot on celery seed bun, chopped onions, diced tomatoes, relish, dill pickle spears, and hot peppers -- a meal-in-itself for only a buck. On Summer evenings there's a line a half-block long waiting to pick up their red hots. I'll be in line in about two weeks. Jim Best ([email removed]) - a south-sider born and raised.
Michael B. wrote: Greek restaurant at the Embassy Hotel-- Papagus--Excellent. But, even better, I feel -- Pegasus - in Greektown...
Puppy wrote: How about Rainbow Ice Cream Cones on a warm summer evening from their store about 94th and Western on the South Side? Or how about the Italian food at the original Rosebud's on Taylor Street? Years ago my wife and I used to enjoy the Italian beef sandwiches from a little bar on the Southside called Kal-Mars. It was located about 74th and Ashland. It burned down years ago, but lo and behold the old owner (and he's really old) took his recipes to another neighborhood bar right near the intersection of 79th and Southwest Highway. I can't remember the name of the place, but I can tell you that the beef sandwiches remind me of the days of yore.