— Grub Street · Guide to Chicago · created over 2 years ago
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Though Chicago is known as a deep-dish town, their best pizza is here.
This remarkably tender squid is balanced by an unlikely spoonful of black tapioca.
These ethereal pieces of fried pork skin are light and crunchy, and the best starter in the whole city.
Classic carbonara is dressed up here with a decadent duck egg.
The burgers here are some of the best in the city, but the patty melt achieves a new level of buttery perfection.
The hot chocolate is good (though not as perfect as Xoco’s), but the salted caramel ice cream with a pretzel is salty, only slightly sweet, and flawless.
An indulgent little bite that makes you forget all about the beef.
Bayless perfectly recreates the soothing but not too rich hot chocolate of Mexico City.
When Chicago banned foie gras, Doug Sohn was the one man to stand up and proudly keep serving it. The ban is gone now, but if it ain't broke...
