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