Cuisine: Pizza. Specialty: Deep Dish Pizza/Chicago-Style Pizza. Location: All Throughout Chicago. Price: $16.75-$21.75 for a 14” pie (serves 4), $5.45-$6.75 for a 6” (individual size). Honestly, I’m not a fan of chains at all. I don’t like my restaurants to cut corners anywhere, especially with something as sacred as a...
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Cuisine: Eclectic. Location: 800 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20006-2726. Price: Entrees run about $25-$35, Appetizers $10-$15, Desserts $9. If there’s one thing that I get asked more than anything about my stay in DC, it’s about whether I’ve seen the White House and how it looks in real life. It just goes to...
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Cuisine: Fast Food. Specialty: Philly Cheesesteak. Location: 1219 South 9th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-5005. Price: $8.50 for a Cheesesteak. I had come to Philly for the first time ever to do an all-night, sleepless Food Bust of the local cheesesteak scene, and my very first cheesesteak had failed to impress me in any way (see...
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Cuisine: Mexican Location: 445 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654-4682 Price: $40 for 3 courses Being an LA guy, I’ve had some pretty amazing Mexican food in all types of settings, from modern, clean restaurants to hole-in-the-wall dives to food trucks. It may not always be authentic, but as far as I’m concerned, the best...
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Cuisine: Breakfast, Brunch. Location: 5707 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660. Price: $6-$9 for most of the breakfasts. Nothing exceeds $12.50. It was my last morning in Chicago. Every one of the last few days I had hit up the famous breakfast joints, from the famous Lou Mitchell’s to the modern Bongo Room, and in almost every...
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Cuisine: American, Bar Food. Location: 500 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605-1532. Price: $14 for a burger, $6 for fries. When I think of “tavern,” I always think of a run-down, outdated pub serving up dirty grub in a shady part of town. I know that’s a little bit stereotypical, but a bar’s typically just a bar,...
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Cuisine: Italian. Specialty: Neapolitan Pizza. Location: 3715 Macomb Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20016. Price: $8 to $13 for pizza. True Neapolitan pizza in the US is an oddity. Even among the relatively few pizzerias that claim to do it the “authentic” way, very few actually use the proper ingredients and techniques. In...
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Cuisine: Breakfast, Brunch. Location: 1470 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622. Price: $10-$20 for Breakfast. I love to wake up in the morning with a nice, big breakfast to get the day started. And when I eat breakfast, there’s nothing I like more than a good pair of flapjacks or some French Toast—i.e. something really...
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Cuisine: Eclectic, with a heavy American and French influence Location: 500 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605-1532 Price: Entrees run about $20-$25. $17 for a Kobe Beef and Foie Gras Burger, $5 for Fries. Ah, the mythical foie gras burger. It’s a legend that’s been attempted countless times before in the search for the...
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Cuisine: Fast Food Sandwiches. Specialty: Philly Cheesesteak. Location: 4 Locations in Philly. I went to the one at 431 North 62nd Street. Price: $8 for a Cheesesteak. After so much intense reviewing, sometimes I just need to take a break, cut out all the fatty foods, and just get on a diet before I start to break the scale. It was...
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