Recommended Restaurants

Ones that are relatively close to IIT:

• Ferro's - Your basic Chicago hot dog stand, with excellent Italian Ice. Northwest of IIT, and walkable for lunch.
• Maxwell Street Depot
• Little Three Happiness (Chinatown) is recommended. Bigger Three Happiness on corner is not.
• Lao Sze Chuan (Chinatown)
• Manny's Deli (near west side/UIC)

LTHForum's Great Neighborhood Restaurants is a top-notch and up-to-date list, covering the entire region. It is available in a pocket-size PDF.

Links

• ChicagoRestaurants.com
• Yelp
• Menu Pages
• Citysearch
• LTHForum - Chicago Culinary Chat
• GrubHub - delivery menus
• Chicago Reader Restaurant Finder
• Time Out Chicago - Restaurants
• Metromix Chicago - Restaurants
• CenterStage Chicago - Restaurants

Near to IIT (but too far to walk)

• Bridgeport Coffee House at Morgan & 31st
• Ramova Grill
• The legendary Chinatown, with dozens of restaurants.
• Connie's Pizza
• Lina's Pizza
• White Castle (3457 S. King Dr. - less than 1 mile from IIT) A group may be going, see the WhiteCastleBOF.
• Review of Bridgeport Restaurants (to the West of IIT)
• West by bus: taking the 35th bus west, past the ballpark to Halstead, are a few diners (the Ramova Grill and Bridgeport Restaurant), hot dog joints, and a good taqueria (La Mexicana). Additional Bridgeport restaurants, like Healthy Food Lithuanian and Mitchell's Tap, are to the north of 35th on Halstead.

Restaurants that Deliver:

• Try the listings in GrubHub for Armour Square (the technical name for the Chicago community area that runs from Sox Park and IIT up to Chinatown), Bridgeport, or Bronzeville.

Shopping:

• There is a Jewel supermarket at 35th and Martin Luther King Drive (1 mile east of IIT). It closes at 10 pm. There is also a 24-hour Walgreens here.
• There is a 24-hour Jewel at the Green line Roosevelt station, directly to the south on Roosevelt.
• Off of the Chinatown Red line stop are a variety of Asian groceries; see this thread at LTHForum.

Chicago Staples:

• Chicago Pizza
• Hot dogs:
  • CitySearch's Best of 2007
  • The Search for the Perfect Dog
  • Grease Freak's gallery
• Chicago Cuisine (Wikipedia)

Kosher:
(Mostly to be found in the suburb of Skokie, or on the North Side)

• Slice of Life
• Da Nali's Pizza
• Shallots
• Sandwich Club
• Zelda's Sweet Shoppe
• Taboun

Halal:
(Your best bets here might be Devon Avenue in Rogers Park on the north side, or the southwestern suburb of Bridgeview)

• See the listings on Zabihah.com

Vegan:

• Vegan in Chicago
• Chicago Vegan-Friendly Restaurants
• Vegan-friendly places in Chicago on VegGuide.org
• Yelp - Vegan Chicago

Gluten-Free:

• 8 Chicagoland Restaurants with Gluten Free Menus
• Gluten-free Restaurants in Chicago
• Yelp - Gluten-Free Chicago

Last modified: 06/17/08 03:03 AM by Yusuke Kawasaki (‎kawanet‎)

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