Restaurants in Blue Island

At Manny's Cafeteria and Delicatessen, fourth-generation Raskins work alongside their parents to maintain their family's legacy of crafting homestyle Jewish-American fare for more than half a century. Within a classic cafeteria setting decorated with news clippings, photos, and thumb-wrestling second graders, chefs draw from practiced recipes for matzo-ball soup, house-made chocolate phosphates, chewy latke, and sandwiches lauded by Time Out Chicago. Manny's famous corned beef, piled with three-quarters of a pound of juicy brisket, woos tongues without writing a love poem in chocolate sauce.

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We all frequently use the term heartland in reference to simple, hearty cooking, but its actual meaning is contested. Some believe it's a mythical midwestern mecca where John Cougar Mellencamp serves as benign dictator and chief of thoracic surgery. Others refer to Heartland County, Indiana, famous for producing wicker pants and developing an alternate food pyramid comprised solely of meat. A small contingency is convinced that it's the place where Elvis conceived children. Whichever interpretation is most accurate, Markethouse restaurant knows exactly what heartland cooking is all about. Keep reading for more info about today's great deal.

May Street’s seasonal menu takes advantage of fresh ingredients. Try the signature Maytag blue-cheesecake appetizer (with arugula, spiced pecans, vanilla-poached rhubarb, and rhubarb sorbet), the savory braised-beef short rib (served alongside vanilla-potato puree, pickled rhubarb, and crispy boudin sausage), or the smoked day-boat scallops (with a pistachio crust, curried couscous, and blood-orange brown-butter sauce). All are great choices for a romantic dinner with your date or an awkward one with your pediatrician.

More than 20 plasma-screen TVs cast a flickering glow over Theory, an upscale sports lounge owned by a seasoned DJ that intertwines American comfort food with Mexican and southern twists. The eatery's muted spotlights single out undiscovered scalp models and house specialties, such as baby back ribs in signature sauce and pulled-pork sandwiches made from house-smoked meat. Tiny heart icons indicate cardio-friendly eats on the menu, through which gentle breezes riffle on the outdoor patio. Theory also houses a private party room modeled after a home theater that showcases three TVs clinging to exposed brick, low tables, and cushy chairs. Within the dining room, courteous servers skirt a marble-topped bar and don invisibility cloaks to avoid obscuring television screens showing NFL or NCAA games.

During the golden era of productivity studies in the '50s, researchers concluded that the power lunch provided the most dramatic boost to office efficiency, transforming workers' productivity levels from average to above-average. After packing a cart with high-calorie snacks (meat-logs, meat-logs wrapped in pancakes, meat-logs wrapped in pancakes wrapped in pizza, etc.), bosses walked from office to office, hand-feeding employees to provide enough energy to plow through a standard 22-hour workday. In modern times the practice continues, only instead of the boss hand-feeding the employees, the employees gather in restaurants to consume food under their own power, and instead of eating high-calorie meat-log-based snacks, workers eat prime tenderloin and lobster BLTs.