Suggestions for new/improved BYOBs from downtown to Evanston
Coming in for the Bluesfest. Looking for BYOBS on the "east side" north to Evanston. Suggestions are sincerely appreciated. Thanks much.
Is Urban Belly still good?
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Urbanbelly
3053 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
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re: chicgail
I even prefer Belly Shack to Urban Belly - but yeah, both are good and BYO.
There's always Schwa, but getting through to someone on the phone (and not getting cancelled on) makes Schwa one of the trickiest tables to get in Chicago. Ruxbin has great food, but they don't take reservations and it's a tiny restaurant. I really love Sun Wah BBQ and Great Lake, too.
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Great Lake
1477 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640Urbanbelly
3053 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
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nsxtasy
May 23, 2011 03:19 PM
The neighborhoods along Lake Michigan are called the "lakefront", not the "east side" (perhaps you said that in jest).
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re: schaf1
nsxtasy
May 23, 2011 04:59 PM
I don't seek out BYOB's, so only a few come to mind. Oceanique is a very nice seafood-focused restaurant in Evanston, and it's outstanding, perhaps the very best of all the many restaurants in Evanston. On Mondays ONLY they offer no corkage fee, so they are basically BYOB on Mondays (but you can still buy their alcohol too). www.oceanique.com
Two more are slightly outside the area you have designated. One is Yolo, a somewhat new, excellent provincial Mexican restaurant in Skokie, the town immediately west of Evanston. It's always BYOB. www.yolomexicaneatery.com
The other is a restaurant that I just went to on Friday and enjoyed is Han 202. It's about four miles south of the Loop (downtown Chicago), and features a mix of Asian and contemporary American items. Always BYOB. www.han202.com (I posted a review at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/780387 .)
I'm sure there are a lot more, but those are the ones I thought of immediately...
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