The dish reviewers keep coming back to is the Cag Kebab, a regional specialty from Turkey's Erzurum area that's genuinely harder to find on Chicago menus than the more familiar doner or Adana kebab.
It's a casual, $30-and-under Turkish-Mediterranean spot open seven days, with Sunday starting earlier for anyone treating it as a brunch option.
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