12 Best Old-School Italian Restaurants in Chicago (#1 Isn’t Where You’d Expect)

Описание: 🚗 Plan your next Saturday drive in Illinois and Indiana 👇
https://heartland-road-guides.netlify...

In 1961, Chicago picked Taylor Street, the heart of Little Italy, for a new university campus. Florence Scala led the fight to save the neighborhood. She lost. The families scattered, out to Elmwood Park, up to the North Shore, down to Chicago Heights, and they took the recipes with them. If you want old-school Italian cooking in Chicago today, you have to follow the families.

Twelve places, ranked by thousands of reviews, by the lists the critics keep coming back to, and by one question: does the kitchen still make the old dishes the hard way?

12. Jim and Pete's, Elmwood Park, the sign that never changed
11. Pompei, Taylor Street
10. Vince's, Clearing, by Midway
9. Freddy's Pizza, Cicero, the corner store with the gelato
8. Club Lucky, Bucktown
7. Alex's Washington Gardens, Highwood
6. Del Rio, Highwood, the same family since 1923
5. Scrementi's, Steger
4. La Scarola, River West
3. Bacchanalia, the Heart of Italy
2. Club Lago, River North
1. A house on a quiet block of the Lower West Side, where Chicago's Italians settled first

Some of the great ones are gone: Sabatino's, La Fontanella, Enzo's. These twelve are open this week.

Which old Italian place did your family go to on Sundays, and is it still open? Tell us in the comments, and name the street it was on.

#Chicago #ItalianFood #LittleItaly