Name: Halaleez NY Chicken & Gyro
Address: 400 S Financial Pl, Chicago, IL, 60605
Price range: $

Halaleez NY Chicken & Gyro

Super GemThe Loop · Halal/Mediterranean Community-sourced, unverified

📍 400 S Financial Pl, Chicago, IL 60605

Halaleez NY Chicken & Gyro has a genuinely unusual distinction: it's the specific dish that pulled a former Chicago Tribune dining critic back into food writing after a break, and that's not marketing copy — it's the critic's own account of how an entire year-long Loop-dining project got started.

The Combo Chicken and Gyro Over Rice Platter — both proteins layered over rice, NYC halal-cart style — is the specific dish a former Chicago Tribune critic credits with pulling him back into restaurant writing.

The Combo Chicken and Gyro Over Rice Platter is the reason, a NYC-style halal cart build that layers both proteins over rice rather than forcing a choice between them, finished with the kind of heavy, saucy hand that halal cart devotees specifically chase. It's fully halal with no alcohol served, quick-serve and counter-ordered, built for a fast weekday lunch rather than a sit-down meal.

The Loop location at Financial Place is distinct from a separate Halaleez outpost in suburban Lombard — this is the one that started a critic's whole obsessive cataloging project, worth knowing specifically if the name alone doesn't immediately place it. Minuscule and easy to walk past, which is exactly how it stayed under a professional critic's radar for as long as it did.

Hours

Mon-Thu11AM-9PM

Fri11AM-2AM

Sat2PM-2AM

SunClosed

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

🙂Kid-friendly

🅿️Lot parking available per Zabihah listing

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Halaleez NY Chicken & Gyro

Halaleez NY Chicken & Gyro has a genuinely unusual distinction: it's the specific dish that pulled a former Chicago Tribune dining critic back into food writing after a break, and that's not marketing copy — it's the critic's own account of how an entire year-long Loop-dining project got started.

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