Name: Morrison's Soul Food
Address: 148 W 79th St, Chicago, IL, 60620
Price range: $

Morrison's Soul Food

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📍 148 W 79th St, Chicago, IL 60620

Morrison's Soul Food is the kind of hole-in-the-wall that doesn't bother translating itself for anyone — cash only, an ATM inside for the people who forget, and a menu that changes daily depending on what's cooking rather than printing the same laminated sheet every morning.

Fried chitterlings and chicken prepared four different ways — a cash-only, cafeteria-style soul food counter whose menu changes with whatever's cooking that day.

The draw is the specific stuff: fried chitterlings, chicken done four different ways, baked chicken with dressing, short ribs, smothered chopped steak, Cajun chicken, all served cafeteria-style with two sides and mostly meant to leave in a styrofoam container rather than get eaten at one of the restaurant's handful of seats. Owner Sheila Morrison has kept the 79th Street spot running long enough that it shows up in Chicago's health-inspection record going back years — including a clean pass this past May, the kind of unglamorous paper trail that's actually a better signal of a restaurant's real staying power than any review site.

Morrison was ambitious enough about the format to announce a second, express-style location in Bronzeville in 2025 — Morrison Food Express, with a planned dessert bar and a vegan menu alongside the Southern staples — though whether it's actually open yet wasn't independently confirmed here, so this entry covers the original 79th Street restaurant only. No happy hour applies to a cash-only daytime soul food counter, and there's no confirmed phone line either — Instagram is genuinely the best way to reach this one.

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Morrison's Soul Food

Morrison's Soul Food is the kind of hole-in-the-wall that doesn't bother translating itself for anyone — cash only, an ATM inside for the people who forget, and a menu that changes daily depending on what's cooking rather than printing the same laminated sheet every morning.

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