Eleven City Diner

Eleven City Diner Review

For all its great food, Chicago is not a big deli town, which endears Eleven City Diner, an old-school deli and family restaurant in the South Loop, to the locals. You can get breakfast all day (latkes and lox, "hoppel poppel" scrambled eggs with salami, potatoes, onions, and peppers), deli staples like matzo-ball soup and pastrami and corned-beef sandwiches, diner options including burgers, and soda-fountain floats and malts from the staff soda jerk. Breaking from the deli tradition, Eleven City sells beer, wine, and cocktails. In keeping with its theme there's an old-fashioned candy counter on your way out.