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Engage in an earnest trip of exploration about the town and you will find, as with Old Chris, a whole new world -- a world of epicurean delights that you never thought existed in the City of Winds. We will admit, of course, that the human filling stations are here and in abundance, too, just as they are in New York, New Orleans, or San Francisco; but Chicago, like these other cities, can also boast of first-class restaurants that would delight the heart and palate of the most fastidious and cosmopolitan of gourmets.
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Similarly, on noisy Wells Street, at the west end of the Loop, there is an old German restaurant where millionaires, who can afford the most expensive of tenderloins, come for Hamburger steak... On the other hand, the most appetizing tenderloin steak we've ever tasted, in this city where steaks come from, was in an obscure Roumanian restaurant among the suffocating tenements of the west side "Valley."
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Russian goluptse, Bohemian los angeles convention center events roast goose with sauerkraut, Greek lamb chops, Polish beef filet a la Nelson with mushrooms, Filipino adobo -- foreign and exotic edibles of all kinds you may eat in this "melting-pot" of the middle west. Too, you may hobnob with the fashionables of the town in smart boulevard cafes and hotel dining rooms; with long-haired bohemians in the basement eating parlors of "Tower Town"; with actors and actresses on the Rialto. You may brush shoulders with college boys and boys who don't go to college in the Uptown district; with distinguished university professors in Hyde Park; with wealthy pork packers and sun-tanned cowpunchers of the stockyards; and you may eat chitterhngs among the happy-go-lucky colored folks in the "Blackbelt."
All these gastronomic adventures, and more, await you in the Windy City and are yours if you have the experimental instincts of the true epicure. In this book, of course, we have made no attempt to list all the public tables of Chicago, but only those that are outstanding by reason of their cuisine, service, setting, prices, clientele and traditions. The only thing we regret is not having los angeles convention center events had the opportunity to appraise them according to that other standard of the dear dead days -- their cellars.
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