melvinpa wrote:Hey Jodi,

Sure I'm new to this particular forum, but you have to start somewhere. Anywho, this topic is about the Best Food in Chicago so I wanted to add it. Who cares if Jay brought it up in 2005? I used to live across the street from HD and EA...it was a good neighborhood to be in!

Your love for Travis Bean's is fetching.

I'm slightly creeped that you know my name, but maybe you read through a bunch of threads and figured it out.

In case you are a stalker, know I have a baseball bat under my bed and I know how to use it.

burun wrote:In case you are a stalker, know I have a baseball bat under my bed and I know how to use it.

You go to the opposite field at will. Jeteresque.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict a joke about Jeter's, burun's, and my sexuality somewhere in the next three posts.

burun wrote:

melvinpa wrote:Hey Jodi,

Sure I'm new to this particular forum, but you have to start somewhere. Anywho, this topic is about the Best Food in Chicago so I wanted to add it. Who cares if Jay brought it up in 2005? I used to live across the street from HD and EA...it was a good neighborhood to be in!

Your love for Travis Bean's is fetching.

I'm slightly creeped that you know my name, but maybe you read through a bunch of threads and figured it out.

In case you are a stalker, know I have a baseball bat under my bed and I know how to use it.

I would suggest using it on his encased meat.

burun wrote:

melvinpa wrote:Hey Jodi,

Sure I'm new to this particular forum, but you have to start somewhere. Anywho, this topic is about the Best Food in Chicago so I wanted to add it. Who cares if Jay brought it up in 2005? I used to live across the street from HD and EA...it was a good neighborhood to be in!

Your love for Travis Bean's is fetching.

I'm slightly creeped that you know my name, but maybe you read through a bunch of threads and figured it out.

In case you are a stalker, know I have a baseball bat under my bed and I know how to use it.

OF COURSE I know your name. It's not that hard? Just because I haven't been signed up to this forum for very long doesn't mean I don't know who you are. As for the stalking thing...how would that work? YOU were the one that messaged in MY direction first.

At any rate...it's not that big of a deal, hope it's not as cold in NYC as it is here! We've gotten more snow already this winter than we have in years!

BadComrade wrote:Fuck Al's

Fuck Mr. Beef

The best Italian beef sammich I've ever had was at Johnnie’s Beef (7500 W. North Avenue in Elmwood Park).

Plenty of "foodies" agree with me. Actually, I agree with them, because they were the reason why I drove out there for one.

Even better: The Italian beef / sausage combo.



Gimme a combo, sweet, dipped, ta go. Large ice too.

If we are talking suburbs as well, I give overall best beef to Dukes Beef on Harlem in like, Burbank or whatever it is.
Ridiculous beef there, man. It's what Johnnies aspires to with their beef. Perfection.
Plus they have always had an 100% female staff, which is pretty cool.

BadComrade wrote:Ahhh, Dukes. I had one of their sandwiches like 15 years ago, but I remember nothing about it. All I remember are some of the cars in the parking lot. One was an old 40's Mercury, and it was called "Orange Peel". The paint on it had the same look and texture as an orange. There was also a really nice red Triumph GT6 there that night.

I'll have to go down there again and check out the beef again.

I can't find it right now but someone actually wrote an entire novel centered around Duke's beef, I was at the release party they had there. We lived on 73rd and Harlem when I was a kid, we'd head up there every Friday night to check out the cars and eat beef sammiches. Good times.
They give you more fries than I would guess any other restaurant in the world, more than 5 people could eat in one sitting.
Their dogs are great too.

I've been going to Pizza Rustica lately. It's a cool BYOB right under the Sheridan red line stop. The pizza is really good and the BYOB aspect saves everyone a ton of cash.

http://www.pizzarusticachicago.com/

Marsupialized wrote:I can't find it right now but someone actually wrote an entire novel centered around Duke's beef...

I think you mean The Book of Ralph

If you're near Duke's, you should definitely go to Chucks. The BBQ is good and the specials are excellent.

ERawk wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:In summer there were mangoes at the Rogers Park Fruit Market that rivaled anything I have ever eaten. The big, red/yellow/green Mexican mangoes there were astonishingly perfect.

Seconded.

A new Pan-African joint (mostly Ethiopian-centric) opened in the neighborhood and it rocks.

African Harambee
7537 N. Clark St.

We've dined there twice and it's sooooo good. Worth the trip up north.

I'll second that. This place has some of the best Sub-Saharan African food I've had since the Ethiopian Village Restaurant on Clark shut its doors.

Nice wine & beer selection, too.

Nhu Lan Bakery, on Lawrence. They have great Vietnamese sandwiches for about $3 . Really nice people as well.