661810 Fri Oct 23 14:30:08 -0700 2009 5 7 Chicago Area 0 5126114 My wife and i will be visiting our son for a weekend. We are staying near Michigan and Ohio. He lives in Lakeview, near Southport and Belmont. Looking for 2 reasonably priced dinner and breakfast/brunch. Thinking about Mixteco Grill based on this board and other reviews. Also considering Thai Classic and The Bagel. Open to other ideas. I would prefer places convenient to his apartment. We will not have a car, so public transportation and cabs or walking.Thai and Mexican would be 2 cuisines that I know Chicago does well and we don't have a great selection of where we live, but other cuisines would be considered as well. Fri Oct 23 14:30:09 -0700 2009 1118658 sammyo 1 5127588 If he lives close to the Southport Brown Line stop, Spoon Thai is a short ride to the Western stop and one of the top Thai restaurants in the city. The better dishes are often on one of the supplemental menus. Spoon Thai 4608 N. Western Sat Oct 24 10:38:31 -0700 2009 5126114 11364 Eldon Kreider 2 5127611 Add a link failed in my reply, so here it is. Sat Oct 24 10:52:11 -0700 2009 5127588 11364 Eldon Kreider 1 5128512 The Bagel is not a fancy place but it has good, honest, Jewish-style food---the brisket of beef will melt in your mouth. We enoy The Bagel every time we go. I wanted also to suggest, since you mention Thai, that PS Bangkok has an excellent Thai buffet (brunch hours I think but you could call) on Sunday. It's on Clark just above Belmont. Another adventure would be to get on the Belmont bus heading west, get off at Milwaukee, and check out The Red Apple (3121 Milwaukee, a block south of Belmont) which is a Chicago classic, a Polish smorgasbord with an all-you-can-eat buffet of probably fifty or sixty dishes for around $12 on weekends. Sat Oct 24 19:17:10 -0700 2009 5126114 15521 Querencia 1 5146116 Mixteco Grill is excellent. Thai Classic is decent for standard Thai orders, but PS Bangkok across the street is better. Note however that PS Bangkok no longer offers a weekend buffet - too bad because it was great. Spoon Thai is pretty much across the street from the street from the Western Avenue Brown Line station, which is less than a 10-minute L ride from the Southport L station. They will provide you with two specials menus (one is their translated Thai language menu). I think this is the best Thai restaurant in Chicago, provided that you order items off of the special menus. If you stick to items typically found at any neighborhood Thai restaurant, it really won't excite you. TAC Quick is also excellent and reasonably close to Southport/Belmont - it's right next to the Sheridan Red Line Station. They also offer special menus (ask for the translated one here). Glenn's Diner is a solid spot for breakfast/brunch/dinner and it's next to the Montrose Brown Line station, slightly over 5 minutes from the Southport stop. I particularly like Glenn's for dinner where they offer very nice and moderately priced seafood in a casual atmosphere. The Bagel doesn't excite me. I used to like it more but I stopped going a few years ago, believing they became careless and cheap - stale rolls, really cloudy soup, etc. On Clark a couple of blocks north of Wrigley Field is Uncommon Ground and I think they offer an excellent breakfast/brunch. Orange has two locations nearby and they too offer good breakfast/brunch options. Sat Oct 31 21:14:24 -0700 2009 5126114 12590 BRB 1 5146153 You double posted. See my reply in the other one. But as you can see, some others also recommend Spoon. Sat Oct 31 21:43:25 -0700 2009 5126114 104864 Pete Oldtown