5015 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
Cook County
Phone: (773) 728-0050
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by Kayla Saltsman on I enjoy sitting either in the beer garden or the diner counter for drinks and grub. The Buffalo Chicken Salad is a great twist on the cobb salad, and the Thai Chicken Wings are sweet and delicious. I have come to Silk several times to dance as well and always had a great time. This is a usual spot for me now that we live only 2 blocks away.
by Laurence D. on Went for a birthday dinner with 16. We were assigned a long low table and comfy chairs and stools. Quite a nice setting. Paid $100 for 2 sliders, 1 scallop, 2 chicken legs, 2 ribs and 3 watery cocktails. Service was decent. At some predetermined hour a bunch of people descended on the dining area and starting throwing tables/chairs around to turn it into a dancefloor. We were ushered first to our feet and then outside of the now roped off area as literally hundreds people flooded in. It was so packed outside of the ropes we could barely move. The crowd was not glamorous at all. I'll leave it at that. We left, not because of the nature of the crowd but because of the sheer volume of it. Never to return.
by Isis Salvadore on I know there are some people who prefer Geno's over Pat's...and for those people, I must say that you are CRAZY. Absolutely CRAZY. And here's why: I've been to Geno's once or twice before, a long time ago and things haven't changed much. When my coworker and I was scheduled for a training up in King of Prussia, well, we couldn't drive past Philly without a stop at a cheesesteak joint. As my coworker has never been to Philly (uh, how?!?!), I decided that if cheesesteak was what he was craving...well then, we have to do the Geno's/Pat's taste-off. We start off at Geno's, and there was no one in line. There was no one in front of me, and no one behind me. No one walking up the street to come to Geno's. So there really wasn't a need for the lady behind the counter to get *quite* as snotty as she was, when we didn't know what "wit" meant. I mean "wit" what (it turns out - it means "with onions")? Obviously, we're new here, and as it's not like we're holding up the line, the attitude wasn't really called for. Eh. Whatever. We were hungry. I *LOVE* cheese wiz, and as that is what the original cheesesteak was made with, well that's what I always order (before you doubt me - look it up. I'm right.). My coworker got his with provolone, because he's weird about eating "plastic cheese". Whatever. He quickly learned to rue his haute palette, as he bit into his cheesesteak - to find that the cheese was stone-cold and un-melted! Have you ever had unmelted cheese on a cheesesteak? It's not exactly gross, but well, it's not tasty either. There is something about warm, melty, oozy cheese that is part of the cheesesteak experience! To add insult to injury, both of our breads were a *wee* bit on the stale side (not "3-day-old stale"...more like "been-left-out-all-day-next-to-the-oven" stale), and I didn't like that the meat wasn't quite as chopped up as I liked. This reminded me why I stopped coming to Geno's after my second or third visit so long ago. On this trip, we ate at 3 cheesesteak places. Here, Pat's (see my review), and Jim's. I have to say, that this was definitely bottom of the list for both of us. Actually, I ranked this cheesesteak to be about on-par with Jerry's. Yes, you read that right - Jerry's. A NOTE: because of the "rivalry" between Pat and Geno's, I find it really hard to write this review without doing a comparison. Normally, I try to avoid comparing one establishment against, another, as each should stand on it's own, however the rivalry between the two is so popular, that it's nearly impossible to eat a cheesesteak from one, without thinking of the other.
