If searching for encased meats along the streets that made Upton Sinclair famous for “The Jungle” seems counterintuitive, I don’t care. They taste too good.
Eats
In Search of Yak
by Josh Kovensky •
Chicago, for all its huffing and puffing about being a “global” city, has long lacked contact with the good denizens of the Himalayas and their tasty cuisine. Nepal House aims to change that, currying flavor one meal at a time.
At La Catrina, Coffee With a Nod Toward Mexico
by Mosum Shah •
The head of a smiling skeleton made famous in José Posada’s etching “La Calavera Catrina” graces the sign of La Catrina, a month-old coffee shop in Pilsen.
A Meal at Amelia’s
by Tallinn Kiefer •
Amelia’s Mestizo Grill sits at a cultural vantage point.
The Headless Brewer
by Zoe Kauder Nalebuff •
As soon as you pull open the doors of Horse Thief Hollow, you feel at home.
Beverly Swills
by Patrick Leow •
Hardboiled Coffee, with its shelves of pulp magazines and walls of long forgotten film noir, is only the latest addition to a neighborhood that’s unafraid to wear its history on its sleeves.
Making a Home in Englewood
by Jamison Pfeifer •
In Englewood, where vacancies and foreclosures are common and neighborhood hangouts are scarce, one space, a kind of brick loft on the corner of 59th and Green, may end up as what its owner calls “a true neighborhood spot.”
Java jams
by Stephen Urchick •
The Coffee Alley, just opened this past December, is the newest addition to the cluster of restaurants and businesses at the intersection of Racine and Taylor. It’s a slick space.
