Browsing Tag

Lakeview

Chicago Chicken Korean

Crisp (Chicago)

on
June 2, 2017

During a particularly gluttonous season ages ago, in what I now realize was a cruel twist of fate, my former roommates and I discovered Crisp.

It was the beginning of…

Mexican Chicago

Chilam Balam (Chicago)

on
July 17, 2016

It’s not every day that you have to make a bridge out of tables and chairs to escape a flooded restaurant, but Chilam Balam allowed me to cross that…

Chicago Seafood

Lowcountry (Chicago)

on
April 2, 2016

It’s a blast eating seafood with your bare hands. The satisfying crack of a shell opening. The payoff when you finally wiggle the tail meat out of a crawfish….

Chicago Mexican

Torta Haüs (Chicago)

on
February 5, 2016

If you looked up the definition for “no frills” in the dictionary, you’d see a picture of Torta Haüs (926 W Diversey Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60614). But let’s not judge…