The résumé here is about as credentialed as Chicago-style beef stands get: a member of the Vienna Beef Hot Dog Hall of Fame, a WGN News reader-poll winner for one of the best Italian beefs in the Chicago area, and a regular stop for celebrity customers including Joe Mantegna and Food Network's Jeff Mauro. The beef itself comes thin-sliced and topped with crunchy homemade giardiniera, but the menu goes well past the signature sandwich — sausage, hot dogs, pizza, chili boats, tamales, and homemade Italian ice in flavors like lemon, strawberry, and piña colada round things out, plus a full catering menu (beef and sausage trays, pasta salad, mostaccioli) for anyone feeding a crowd. Reviewers are specific and consistent: “the best Italian beef I ever had,” tender, generous portions, kids specifically requesting the pizza.
At 4.5 stars across more than 4,000 ratings, that consistency has clearly held for a long time. Open late most nights — until midnight Sunday through Thursday, 1 a.m. on weekends — this is a 70-plus-year-old Cicero institution that's earned every bit of its reputation.
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