Peter H. wrote: >I will be in Chicago this weekend. Any suggestions for ethnic food? (I >already read the German thread in this group) Konak Restaurant - Turkish - something like 5250 N. Clark - in a word - wow!
Chicago, IL
Ethnic Chicago
Jan K. wrote: > > > POLISH POLISH POLISH !!! Chicago has a Polish section larger than any > city I've ever seen. I'm third generation American,and my only connection > to Poland is an almost obscene fascination with pierogis. Last summer > I visited a buddy in Chicago, and he took me to a little Polish bakery that > served a five or six course Polish meal for around $8.00 including mushroom > soup, pierogis, kielbasa, kapusta, and potato pancakes. A little heavy on > the starch side, but superb stuff. You will not leave hungry !! That restaurant is almost certainly the Senkowski Home Bakery on Milwaukee Avenue. Good food--try the duck stuffed with prunes and apples.
> > however, there is a large yugoslavian colony in chicago. however, they > always were present in their own ethnic groupings: serbs, croats, etc. > and hated each other's guts too. so look for zlata's belgrade, if it > is still there, and related croat restauarants. zlata's was serbian. > Unfortunately, Zlata's in gone. I recommend Simplon-Orient Express (the train) which is good. It is on clark a little North of Wilson.
Someone wrote: > >I will be in Chicago this weekend and am interested in ethnic (asian, >S. American, etc) restaurants not mentioned in the German restaurant >thread. In my neighborhood at Devon and Western (far north) there is a large assortment of Indian and Pakastani restaurants. At lunchtime they all offer buffets for around $6.00. My personal favorites are Moti Mahal (Devon/Maplewood - best buffet) and Ghandi (Devon/Rockwell - best dinners), though I'm told Sher-a-Punjab is also good.