Portillo’s
Justly beloved by increasing beltlines throughout the Midwest, Portillo’s arrived just east of Disney World in 2022 with its counter-service formula intact: A rangy menu of char-broiled burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, heaping salads, and house-made cakes served in kitschy 1950s-style decor with diner booths and fire engine-red accents. At first, the menu sounds more or less identical to countless places in O-Town, but here, the added signatures are the mounds of Italian beef sandwiches; a Polish-style sausage with mustard and grilled onions that Portillo’s has served for decades in Illinois; and the truly authentic Chicago-style hot dog in a spongy bun piled with sport peppers, diced onions, lurid green relish, and an essential dusting of celery salt. Portillo’s also has a drive-through window for slaking that Chicago dog craving on the go.
Justly beloved by increasing beltlines throughout the Midwest, Portillo’s arrived just east of Disney World in 2022 with its counter-service formula intact: A rangy menu of char-broiled burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, heaping salads, and house-made cakes served in kitschy 1950s-style decor with diner booths and fire engine-red accents. At first, the menu sounds more or less identical to countless places in O-Town, but here, the added signatures are the mounds of Italian beef sandwiches; a Polish-style sausage with mustard and grilled onions that Portillo’s has served for decades in Illinois; and the truly authentic Chicago-style hot dog in a spongy bun piled with sport peppers, diced onions, lurid green relish, and an essential dusting of celery salt. Portillo’s also has a drive-through window for slaking that Chicago dog craving on the go.
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