Portillo’s
Kids love Portillo’s for its hot dogs and burgers. Parents love the chain, which originated locally, for the broad and inexpensive menu that goes above and beyond meat-on-a-bun options, including salads and relatively healthy sandwiches. Then again, when in Chicago, consider throwing caution to the wind and double down with a combo beef and chargrilled sausage, which is, as it sounds, an Italian sausage buried in Italian beef on a bun. Before you leave, order a slice of the famous chocolate cake, and as you lick your lips and savor its rich, moist goodness, consider its not-so-secret ingredient: mayonnaise. Reliably loud and frenetic, you won’t feel out of place here if you bring along your noisy brood.
Kids love Portillo’s for its hot dogs and burgers. Parents love the chain, which originated locally, for the broad and inexpensive menu that goes above and beyond meat-on-a-bun options, including salads and relatively healthy sandwiches. Then again, when in Chicago, consider throwing caution to the wind and double down with a combo beef and chargrilled sausage, which is, as it sounds, an Italian sausage buried in Italian beef on a bun. Before you leave, order a slice of the famous chocolate cake, and as you lick your lips and savor its rich, moist goodness, consider its not-so-secret ingredient: mayonnaise. Reliably loud and frenetic, you won’t feel out of place here if you bring along your noisy brood.
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