| Restaurant Name | City |
Rating
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| Giordano's Pizzeria Restaurants | Chicago, IL | |
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It's a tourist trap now. They make decent Chicago-style
pizza, but other places do it better. And the wait for a table is
insanely long.
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| Geja's | Chicago, IL | |
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Excellent, romantic place for some fondue. It's best to
go here just for the chocolate fondue.
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| The Cheesecake Factory | Chicago, IL | |
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Don't go here. It's just a lame chain restaurant with
oversized portions for oversized customers. The cheesecake
is passable. The food is passable and overpriced. There are so
many good restaurants in Chicago that you would be wasting your
time and money going here.
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| Gino's East | Chicago, IL | |
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Decent chicago-style pizza, but mostly a tourist place. Beware:
the sausage topping is a dense wheel of sausage that overwhelms
the pizza. Rather than sprinkle a few small chunks of sausage
around like a normal pizza place, they give you a giant slab of
sausage.
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| Parthenon | Chicago, IL | |
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Decent place in Greek town. Nothing exceptional, but everything
is ok. All the standard Greek-American stuff is there.
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| Wishbone | Chicago, IL | |
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They claim to be Cajun, but it's really a watered down version
of Cajun food. The brunch on Sunday is pretty good, though.
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| Cafe Ba-ba-reeba! | Chicago, IL | |
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The tapas here is fairly good (for Chicago). I haven't tried
the main courses because you can eat quite well on just the tapas.
It's kinda loud, though. It's hard to have a conversation,
but there are lots of people to look at.
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| Reza's Restaurant | Chicago, IL | |
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Fairly good food and not too expensive. All the standard Greek-American
dishes. Can't go wrong here.
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| Cousin's Turkish dining with a vegeterian fla ... | Chicago, IL | |
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The food used to be very good, but then there was a change in management.
Now the food is mediocre. It tastes like they just microwaved
some food and plopped on your plate.
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| Charlie Trotter's | Chicago, IL | |
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I've been here many times and have consistently had an excellent
experience. Both the regular and vegetarian degustations are
excellent. The food tends to be simplified French cuisine with
an occasional Asian flair.
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| Deleece's | Chicago, IL | |
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A fairly good neighborhood restaurant. Cozy, decent food, nothing
extravagent. I've had the pasta there for years and it's
quite good. Had an immense roasted chicken dish once, which was
fairly good. Overall, not bad if you're in the area, but not
a "destination" place.
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| Frontera Grill Topolobampo | Chicago, IL | |
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Two restaurants. Topolobambo is the nice restaurant, Frontera
Grill is the casual cafe. Both are very good, though the menu doesn't
appear to change too often. This is real Mexican food, not the
tex-mex most are familiar with. It's definitely worth the
insane wait for a table.
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| Maggianos Little Italy | Chicago, IL | |
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They give you IMMENSE servings of standard Italian-American
food. The food is average, though some of the pasta dishes are
less than average. There's something rather bland about
the flavors. There are many other Italian restaurants worth
visiting. I would not go back here again.
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| Arun's | Chicago, IL | |
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This is not your average Thai joint. This is high-end Royal Thai
cuisine (I think that's what they call it). The regular menu
is excellent, but don't order the vegetarian version - it
sucks. Some of the dishes seem familiar, but are done in extraordinary
ways. At my visit, desert was boring.
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| Morton's Steakhouse | Chicago, IL | |
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Steak and potatoes, Chicago-style. The portions are huge, the
vegetables are boiled, the potatoes come in a few styles. Basically,
if you like big chunks of meat in a Godfather-like environment,
this is it.
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| Everest | Chicago, IL | |
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Excellent French cuisine. Very high-end, suit & tie place.
The food is great. They serve degustations (multiple-course
menus). Definitely get the extra cheese course. I still dream
about the corn soup I got there years ago. Also, the service here
is the best in the city, IMHO.
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