Restaurants, a preview
Hey expats,
Let’s get some restaurant recommendations up on the site. Here’s a temporary list for starters. Hopefully we can replace this with individual reviews.
Recommended Restaurants
Pizza
Frankies – for wood-oven pizza
Coal Fire – for coal-oven pizza
Piece – for New Haven style pizza
Asian
Cho Sun Ok – Korean BBQ
Chi Cafe – Chinese snacks
Saints Alps – Hong Kong chain for Chinese snacks
Phoenix – dim sum (good shrimp)
Mountain View – dim sum
Tank Noodle – pho
Indian Garden -
Mount Everest – (in Evanston)
Local
Ann Sather – cinnamon buns, herring, beware of Chicago-sized portions
Hot Doug’s – gourmet hot dogs, duck fat fries
Portillo’s – Chicago dogs, the fast food alternative
Mado – amazing meat plate, actually everything amazing
Seven on Seven (in Macy’s) – for lunch, when in the Loop
Hopleaf – beer selection, mussels and frites, beef brisket, (but some misses)
Cafe
Lula -
Bourgeouis Pig Cafe – cozy cafe
Italian
Coco Pazzo Cafe – amazing
Ristorante Prosecco – antipasti
Mexican
Nueva Leon
Taco Veloz – cheap food, awesome Elvis impersonators
Frontera – excellent cocktails and desserts
Other ethnic
Sayat Nova – love their lentil soup
El Rinconcito – Cuban food!
Arco de Cuchilleros – Spanish tapas
So-So
Orange – for coffee/drinks, but not so much for food
La Creperie -meh
The Grocery – meh, grown-up children’s foods
Pizzeria Via Stato – overpriced, just ok
Bistrot Margot – overpriced, claims to be French food
Crust – thin crust pizza and interesting drinks
Emilios – tapas
