“Lost Restaurants of Chicago”
Greg Borzo’s “Lost Restaurants of Chicago” is a compendium of regret-inducing obituaries. So many wonderful restaurants—Schaller’s Original Pump, Won Kow—that are no more, though they live on in the gustatorial reveries of Chicagoans. If you never indulged at these lost places, you never will. But the pages of Borzo’s book, stuffed with photos of these now-shuttered restaurants, will, if nothing else, encourage you to go to those places still on Chicago streets that you always meant to visit but still haven’t. If you don’t go soon, you may never have a chance. (David Hammond)
Best of Chicago 2019
