retro on roscoe suggestions

Heading to retro on roscoe this saturday, what will be a good place to eat around that area for dinner?
thanks!

Agnes

there are several good restaurants on roscoe. i think the one i work at http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3399&highlight=volo is pretty good, but also on the block is el Tinajon, very good Guatemalan food, and Thai linda is certainly passable, and if you walk west a couple of blocks Turquoise is very good too. all of these are on the strip, you cant miss them. see you there!!

Erik.

The Polish booth and the cevapcici booth are your best bests. Some of the top fest food in Chicago.

I think Volo would be a good option. Here's a recent review I posted on the Chowhound site:

http://www.chowhound.com/midwest/boards ... 62346.html

I think Kaze Sushi is decent. They promote the heck out of the fact that they offer nigiri served with chef-created sauces (as opposed to soy). These nigiri options were good, but there were only a few of them and I found their maki to be average, no better. The decor/atmosphere is very nice though.

Kitsch'n on Roscoe is decent (American food). There's a newer restaurant called Turquoise which servers Turkish food. It looks pretty good but I've never eaten there.

JeffB wrote:The Polish booth and the cevapcici booth are your best bests. Some of the top fest food in Chicago.

I loved seeing the same food booths at essentially every street festival (the polish guy, the cevapcici, funnel cakes, etc), run by pretty much all the same people, and I'm sure they make a killing during the summer... but I wonder if any of these folks do up this kind of food at their own restaurants. Or even if they have restaurants and are not just nomadic culinary gypsies.

how is El Tinajon anyway? what are the distinguishing characteristics that make it Gautamalen, per se?

I agree with the Volo suggestion. I've never been disappointed with my visit. Just keep in mind - it is primarily a small plate WINE bar. I think a few diners have been disappointed by the smaller portions. Perhaps they thought it would resemble a buffet or something. At any rate, the food is top notch, the wine list is thoughtful, the service is not pretentious and the decor is tasefully understated - a perfect neighborhood restaurant. I'm glad to live two blocks away!

I loved seeing the same food booths at essentially every street festival (the polish guy, the cevapcici, funnel cakes, etc), run by pretty much all the same people, and I'm sure they make a killing during the summer... but I wonder if any of these folks do up this kind of food at their own restaurants. Or even if they have restaurants and are not just nomadic culinary gypsies.

I am not sure about the others, but I actually asked one of the folks at the Polish booth about this at a festival earlier in the summer. Alas, there is no restaurant in this case; they just do festivals. Didn't get into enough of a conversation to find out what they do when it isn't festival season...

El Tinajon is probably the oldest Guatemalan restaurant in town, or close to, and so it's not exactly pushing the envelope with its Mexican and Guatemalan menu, but it's a perfectly solid, nice place.

Thai Linda I order from a lot when I'm in the mood for standard Thai stuff-- everything's fresh and tasty, tastes exactly like the better 50% of all the other Thai restaurants in town. No secret menu, in fact, the "specialties" on the menu usually don't come off as well as the most basic stuff-- pad thai, mussaman curry, pad woon sen etc.