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Lior's Cafe

Super GemWashington Heights · Haitian Community-sourced, unverified
📍 10500 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60628

Lior's Cafe serves Haitian food out of a storefront on Halsted Street in Washington Heights, in a part of the South Side where this specific cuisine isn't easy to find.

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A full real Haitian menu — griot, lambi conch stew, soup joumou, DjonDjon black mushroom rice — in a part of the South Side where this specific cuisine is otherwise hard to find.

The menu runs through real foundational dishes rather than a watered-down introduction: griot (fried pork), lambi stew (conch), both a fried and a baked take on Haitian chicken, a Kreyol shrimp po'boy that bridges the city's own sandwich culture with Haiti's, and soup joumou — the pumpkin-based soup tied specifically to Haitian Independence Day, traditionally the first meal freed Haitians made for themselves in 1804. DjonDjon rice (made with Haiti's dark, earthy black mushrooms) and red beans and rice round out the sides.

The restaurant describes itself on its own site as 'a testament to the resilience, passion, and dedication of the Haitian community,' and it reads that way in practice — not a fusion spot chasing a trend, but a specific cultural foodway getting a real, dedicated kitchen in a part of the South Side that doesn't otherwise have one.

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Lior's Cafe

Super Gem
A Real Haitian Menu
Washington HeightsCommunity

Hours

Wed-Thu12-9PM
Fri-Sat12-10PM
Sun12-8PM
Closed Mon-Tue
📅 Reserve on OpenTable 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 239-5467

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
🙂Kid-friendly

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