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Soule

Iconic/NotableNorth Lawndale · Soul Food / Creole-Cajun-Southern Community-sourced, unverified
📍 3615 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL 60624

Soule is doing something no restaurant in North Lawndale had managed in more than 50 years before it opened: putting a real, full-service, sit-down dining room on the map in a neighborhood that food media mostly treats as a gap on the way to somewhere else.

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North Lawndale's first new full-service, sit-down restaurant in over 50 years — Creole/Cajun-leaning soul food (fried catfish, steak and shrimp) with a full bar.

Chef Bridgette Flagg built it as a second location after her original Soule to Soule in West Town, and the menu carries the same Creole-and-Cajun-leaning soul food through — fried catfish over mashed potatoes, steak and shrimp, the kind of plates built for a Sunday-after-church crowd as much as a Tuesday dinner. It runs a full bar, which matters more here than it might elsewhere, since a sit-down restaurant with a real drink menu was exactly the kind of investment this stretch of Roosevelt Road had been waiting on.

Reviews skew positive and plentiful — north of 700 on OpenTable alone — though a few mention the room getting loud and service moving faster than you'd like on a busy night. There's no discount or special here; the pitch is simply that this neighborhood finally has a place like this at all.

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