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9 Suburban Illinois Mexican Restaurants Worth The Drive Out From Downtown Chicago
Some of the best meals I have ever eaten in Illinois came from places I almost drove right past. A plain storefront, a busy strip mall, a quiet corner on a small-town main street, and then suddenly a plate of tacos that made the whole trip feel like a lucky secret.
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Old-School Chicago Lunch Counters Are Rare Now, But These 7 Are Still Open
Chicago used to have a lunch counter on what felt like every other corner. You grabbed a stool, ordered a sandwich or a plate of eggs, and watched the cook work just a few feet away. Most of those spots have faded out, but a handful are still pouring coffee...
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Toastique Lands First Chicagoland Shop in Deer Park With $50 Opening-Day Perk
Deer Park is about to get its first taste of avocado toast done gourmet-style. Toastique, an all-day café known for its toast, smoothie bowls and espresso drinks, will open its doors on Saturday, Nov. 7 — marking the brand's first location in Illinois and the Chicagoland area. The...
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The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet In Illinois That Serves Up Serious Southern Comfort Food
There’s a green awning on South Michigan Avenue that promises “Down Home Southern Cooking,” and let me tell you, it does not mess around with that promise. Pearl’s Place in Chicago has been quietly feeding folks some of the most soul-satisfying Southern food in the entire city, and somehow you might not have heard about it yet.
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The Northern Illinois Mexican Restaurant That Makes Its Tortillas From Scratch Every Morning
Every single morning, a family kitchen in Illinois presses fresh corn tortillas by hand before the first customer orders breakfast. The recipe behind that dough has stayed in the family since 1990. That alone caught my attention. Then I learned these tortillas come out thicker and larger than standard ones,...
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This Family-Run Illinois Donut Shop Pairs Fresh Donuts With Cheesy Caramel Popcorn And Shaved Ice
Cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn share one bag here, right next to a case of fresh cake donuts. Then someone hands you a cup of shaved ice. That’s a lot of happiness for one small counter. The popcorn list runs past a dozen flavors, all made in-house. There’s a...
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People Line Up at This Illinois Puerto Rican Restaurant for Lechon Jibaritos, Mofongo, and Alcapurrias
A Chicago sandwich swaps out bread for two flattened, fried plantains, and one busy Northwest Side counter put that idea right in its name. The filling that gets the most love here is lechon, the Puerto Rican roast pork. Then the menu keeps going. Mofongo, alcapurrias, carne frita, morcilla, and...
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7 Romanian Dishes Midwest Families Cooked on Sundays
I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Romanian families settled in industrial Midwest cities in several waves during the early twentieth century, and by the 1950s the communities in Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago had long had their own Orthodox churches, social clubs, and butchers who knew what ciolan meant. Cleveland's St. Mary's parish dates to 1904 and Detroit's St. George to 1912, and the church halls and family kitchens around them kept the cooking alive.
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7 Dishes Lithuanian-American Grandmothers Cooked for Sunday
I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Lithuanian families in the Pennsylvania coal towns and the factory neighborhoods of Chicago and Cicero kept long Sundays. Dinner started in the morning, when whoever was cooking began grating potatoes for kugelis or shaping cepelinai by hand, and the kitchen held that combination of bacon fat and onions for most of the day. These were not quick meals. They were the meals that marked the week.
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Fans Make The Drive For Homemade Donuts Fried Fresh In The Window At This Illinois Shop
An apple fritter about as wide as your face, weighing close to a pound, is the reason people cross an entire metro area before breakfast. It comes stuffed with warm apple chunks and cinnamon. Then it gets a heavy coat of glaze made from scratch. The show starts in the...