Kosher lunch in Chicago/butchers in Cleveland

[Chatsworth]

I will be driving through Chicago in a couple of months and plan to stop for lunch and a look around. I live in the Pacific NW, where kosher restaurants are few and far between. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good lunch/deli? A couple of days later we'll be flying home from Cleveland, so if there's a good butcher/deli there, I'd love to know so I can bring stuff home.

Thanks!

[chicago maven]

The crc website has a list of all of the approved restaurants in the Chicago area.
http://www.crcweb.org/guide_chicago.php

[randallhank]

Uh, plenty of kosher meat and groceries to be found in Cleveland. Tibor's and Boris' are both outstanding for meat. There are several very good kosher bakeries, a kosher market called Unger's and probably the best kosher Chocolatier you will find, called Chocolate Emporium. Obviously Chicago will have some great choices, but if you don't want to shlep the food from Chicago, you will easily find what you want in Cleveland.

[tammymarty]

Yes!! Kosher in Northbrook is a restaurant called Mizrachi, Israeli and other. Excellent.
Also in downtown Highland park is a butcher/restaurant called Shaevitz phone:[phone].
The best hamburgers and fries! Oh My!! They are small in the restaurant/cafe but soooooooo
good. The butcher shop is great and we get deli for the road home and cooked ribs for
Cleveland. We eat lunch there everyother month or so.

[weinstein5]

Both are excellent - http://www.mizrahigrill.com/ and here is a link to now we're cookin grill - http://www.cookin-grill.com/

[tammymarty]

Lou, it that you. LOL

[weinstein5]

Nope - just enjoy good kosher eating in Chicago -

[avitrek]

Tibor's in Cleveland is great.

[weinstein5]

All of these suggestions are excellent - If you are coming on I-94 Taboun Grill would be the most convenient - it is just east of I-94 on Dempster - Romainians is about 2-3 miles from Taboun - and it is the best butche rin Chicago - all of the deli meats and hot Dogs are excellent !

Ta'boun Grill www.taboungrill.com
8808 N. Gross Point Rd, Skokie, IL 847-965-1818

Romanian Kosher (OU)
7200 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60626
773-761-4141

and the other places suggested:

Ken’s Diner http://www.kensdiner.com
3353 Dempster, Skokie, IL 60076 847-679-4030

Manghal www.manghalgrill.com
1805 Howard Street, Evanston, IL 847-859-2681

Shallots Bistro www.shallotsbistro.com
7016 Carpenter Road, Skokie, IL 60077 847-677-DINE

Metro Klub - Lunch hours only
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1...
733 W. Madison, Chicago, IL 60661 312-602-2104

[Chatsworth]

Thanks so much for the suggestions, and especially for putting together the links.

[Pluckyduk8]

The best butcher is Romanian. Great meats and salamis.

[Shmendrik]

If you're downtown, I'd recommend MetroKlub. If you're looking for something fancy, Shallots is decent but expensive. Otherwise try one of the Israeli places like Taboun in Skokie, Manghal in Chicago, or Mizrahi grill in the far northern suburbs.

[queenscook]

Ken's Diner is a fun place. I'm not from Chicago, so I've only been there a couple of times when I was visiting, but I liked it.