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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Everywhere but London has good food. Chicago has nothing going for from a culinary perspective that every city of a million or more people doesn't have. Spend a lot - get good food. Know the area, spend less and still get good food.
Most expensive steak I've ever had was at Joe's Seafood and Prime. We sat near Scottie Pippen and I've had better steaks at a Lonestar. Chicago style pizza is a casserole and Scimeca's Sausage in KC beats the brakes off the sausage they jerk themselves off over in Chicago.
I'm not buying it. The only unique dining experience Ive had in chicago is being aggressively accosted outside a restaurant and jazz joint on Michigan Ave by a ****ing bum who kept spraying water on my buddy's shoes and wouldn't leave us the hell alone until my buddy actually went to am ATM and drew out money to throw him a $20.
**** that whole frigid piece of shit city. It's better than Atlanta and that's the absolute best thing I can say about it.
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You crack me up.
Never been to Joe's Seafood and Prime, although I concur that many, if not most, of the big dollar steak places aren't worth the ridiculous prices they charge. My favorite restaurant in the city is an Italian steak house way outside the Loop on the Northwest Side called Sabatino's, which is unfortunately closing at the end of the year. Great food, wonderful old time feel, and the only thing that's changed since I first set foot in the place 25 years ago is that there aren't ashtrays on the tables now. That's the kind of place I'm thinking about when I talk about great food up here - not the overhyped expensive shit downtown.
And you are just flat out wrong about the pizza. It's wonderful.
As for the bums, that's pretty unusual. This isn't Seattle or San Francisco. For the most part the street zombies are well behaved up here.