Super GemChicago Exclusive Gem$$The name comes from Nelson Algren's novel A Walk on the Wild Side, and it's earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand mention along the way. Chicken-fried chicken and the masa pancakes with mole maple syrup are the dishes people cite most, in a room that leans retro-diner rather than trying to look like a taqueria -- staff spin actual records behind the bar while pouring from a tequila-and-mezcal-heavy program.
Happy hour is real and specific: 3-6pm Thursday through Saturday, $10 for the Oklahoma onion burger and $7 for the dirty horchata latte. Reservations are recommended (OpenTable, Tock) and the numbers back up the hype -- 4.7 stars, well over 1,000 combined reviews across Yelp and Google.
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