This is another place practically within touching distance of an El Stop, turn right as you exit the main entrance of the Addison Brown Line el station and next to the Cork Lounge and you are there. You can also see it as you look down from the train station platform. It serves japanese and…
Category: Brown Line
Hot Diggity Dogs
In the search for places to eat next to the El line is is hard to find somewhere closer than Hot Diggity Dogs, located at 947 W Wellington Ave, between Sheffield & Mildred Ave, and practically built under the arches of the Wellington Brown line El station. The menu board is pretty basic on first inspection and…
Haute Sausage Food Truck
Oh Twitter you are a beast, you taunt me all day with your updates of Food Trucks circling the city and you know full well from your “Where are you” feature that I am many miles away working in the North Suburbs. But occasionally a small window of opportunity presents itself. Like a Storm Chaser watching the radar for touchdowns,…
Noon O Kabab
Do not let the name fool you, this is way more than just a kebab shop. Noon O Kabab specializing in Persian Cuisine is at Kedzie and has two spaces at the same location. A sit down resturant on the corner of Kedzie and Leland Ave and a take out on Kedzie adjacent to the El…
Magic Grill – Not pulling a rabbit out of a hat
Kimball. Is this this the end of the line or the beginning of the line? Despite the first sight of popeyes chicken as I left the station, with the sun shining and the temperatures in the 80’s, spirits were still high. Everywhere looks good in the sunshine and this helped to counter the paucity of…
First Slice (Albany Park) – Great Cause, Great Food, Even Great Salad
First Slice in Albany Park is one of a group of three community service non profit cafes in the Chicago area. This one is located at 4664 N Manor Ave, Chicago between Francisco Ave and Leland Ave, and is practically 5 steps from the Francisco Brown Line El Station and it is almost impossible to…
Wishbone Northside – “Southern Reconstruction Cooking”
I didn’t see this sign until the way out but by then I had kind of worked out that the theme was slightly southern by the proliferation of southern styled specials on the menu such as jambalaya and poboys. Apparently ‘Southern Reconstruction Cooking’ means made-from-scratch traditional recipes with healthier ingredients for yankee tastes’. I suppose…
Budacki’s Drive In – What more do you want? Dogs, Burgers, and Italian Beef
If ever there is a guilty pleasure heading my way then this place fulfils it. Cheap Dogs and Great Signage, enough to draw you in and prices that walk the food away. At the end of a sunny October Chicago day with temperatures flirting with the low 70’s, it was impossible to resist the temptation of a Chicago Dog …
Snappy Shrimp – Is it snappy? Fried Fish things near to Damen
If I ever really wanted a place to be good then this was probably it. I really love crispy shrimp and made a schoolboy error in reading some reviews that implied that this was the place to get them. I am not saying that they were wrong just that I felt left flat by my…
Pannenkoken Cafe – Dutch pancakes in Lincoln Square
“Is it a pizza?, is it an omelette? no its a Pannenkoken!” “A what?” “A Pannenkoken…oh let them explain, after all they do have a board and I did take a photo of it, and then do a lame ode to Superman to stretch out the blog entry and introduce the photograph” I had a Sausage, Mushroom,…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 