Illinois: Palatine Inn (Suburban Chicago)

PDX Gwailo seeks out the Queen:

It’s not the Billy Goat (someone already posted about), but then nothing in Chicago is. But Chicago is full of good burgers, and one of the few, if not only, places I have ever been that serves the “Queen Burger” virtually everywhere. Too lazy to look up the origin, I am going to take a stab here at saying the Queen Burger is so named because it is covered with a mound of sliced (queen size) green olives, one of my three favorite things in the world to eat.

This one, at the Palatine Inn was done perfectly as requested, medium rare, served dry, with tomato, lettuce and pickle on the side. They will offer you a choice of self-applied condiments.

Bonus Pickle, and (drumroll).....Free Matzo ball soup!

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Chicago: Billy Goat Inn

We never seem to keep up with BurgerBlogger and BurgerHoover:

Burgerhoover and I took a culinary/djing trip our to Chicago. We shared a burger at amongst the hotdogs, Italian sandwiches, pizza, Pierogis and other Polish delights. The place for the burger was The Billy Goat Tavern, where Saturday night live filmed a bit with John Belushi.

The quote from their website is pretty much describes the positioning of this Tavern; "Ordering at the Billy Goat may go something like this: "Cheezborger! Cheezborger! You want doublecheez?!? Who's next!?! WHO'S NEXT!?!" If you take more than one second to answer: "Don't look at the menu, look at ME! I order for you - DOUBLECHEEZ!" If you only feel like a single: No. DOUBLECHEEZ!!!" If it's the end of the week: "It's Friday, doublecheez for everybody! It's payday! Triplecheez for the big guy!" Want French fries with that? "No fries - CHEEPS!" Thirsty? "No Pepsi - COKE!" To drink: "Coke or Diet?!" "

And that's how it went, we walked in and guy greeted us by saying, "You eating here?. Sit on that side. order the Doublecheez." We ordered and the burger was plain and dry. two meat patties with cheeze on a bun. We hooked up the condiments and went to town on it... A bit later the fellow that greeted us came by to ask where we were from..... We were being serious tourist taking pictures and reading everything on the walls..... Then the fellow came back with two souvenir kitchen hats for us and took our picture to add to the dork folder.

Back to the burger..... it's plain, to the point, does the job of nourishing you and you leave with a full belly, but more importantly you leave with another experience that will bring happiness when recalled. Specially if you have a couple steins of the dark beer.

Big up the billy goat massive...

Billy Goat Tavern Original
Near Tribune Towers and Wrigley Building
430 N. Michigan Ave at Lower Level
Phone: 312-222-1525

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Burger Tour: Chicago/Detroit with ERS-1

BurgerBlogger did a little stint through Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, and Portland in route to Santa Barbara

Herein we follow the demise of his colon....nice too see booty beats are still alive in Detroit:


My crew SES had me up in Chicago to cause mayhem at the local hotdog stands and drink some Oldstyles till the break of dawn (literally, bars close at 4AM, burgers at 5:30am get to the eat them at 6:00 at home and enjoy one last Oldstyle)

That's a burger sticker in Wickerpark



This here burger was the healthiest burger I've had yet, a bit on the sweet side as the bun combined with the sweet onions made for a super sweet combo. I added some of the salad dressing and gave it that right amount of savory tangyness to the mix.

I had breakfast and lunch/dinner at that place. made it my office for 8 hours and worked. The oatmeal was good too. At Ear Wax



Below is Under dog Polish in Wicker Park. Summer colors. Insanely good, especially at midnight right before the dj set.


That's the homey that made the delish polish dog at Under dog.


The next night dj'ed, got the the place and my my crew Dj Abducted and his girl Julie got the urge for some tacos (can't have burgers all the time, specially in Chicago).

And, it just so happens that we found a place open at 6am, so i had the Enchiladas Poblanas, and since Chicago has the second biggest Mexican population in the US and A, well...it was super good. Mole sauce was just like the mole sauce in Puebla. Serious ting...not just the Oldstyle speaking.


Hardees at a truck stop near Kalamazoo.



After the Chicago madness we headed to DJ a couple jams in Detroit memorial day weekend.

Detroit pub burger, good standard burger. The fries where nicely spiced, the waitress wanted to come party with us as that was the vibe in Detroit, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival was going on and the Redwings won the cup.







Earwax Cafe
1561 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622-2009
Phone: (773) 772-4019


Detroit Pub
1326 Brush St
Detroit, MI

Underdog Hotdogs and more
1570 N Damen Ave
(between Milwaukee Ave & North Ave)
Chicago, IL 60622
(773) 384-4030
www.underdoggbucktown.com


I was too faded to remember the mexican restaurant

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