Milk & Honey pickles its own sweet spears that are served alongside their sandwiches, but they're happy to throw in a couple of extras, and if you're hankering for a dozen, they're 25 cents each.
Markethouse starts dinner with bread and a 12-ounce jar of its housemade bread-and-butter pickles, which the chef makes in 40-pound batches each week.
Try the beer-battered fried pickles, which are extra tasty served with homemade ranch dressing ($5).
When you're eating for two, big portions of protein are a must. Cue Bijan's for huge helpings of steak and eggs, ten-ounce burgers and ten-ounce filet mignons served until 4am.
Stop by this shop for fries piled high on top of its franks (but never, ever any ketchup).
Visit this retro drive-in for carhop service of Whoopskidawgs (sausage and grilled onions and a pickle) to your window--both locations are open until 1am Sunday-Thursday and 2am Friday and Saturday.
This River North bar serves up exotic burgers, such as ostrich with Jamaican jerk sauce and wild-boar-with-smoked-gouda sliders (open nightly until 4am).
For when you just really want a simple, juicy burger--for breakfast (it serves them 24 hours a day).
Evanston Chicken Shack plates its famously coated-with-milk, then breaded chicken from 10:30am to 12:30am.
Combos of salty and sweet, such as goat-cheese-caramel-cashew and salted peanut satay are at this West Town ice cream shop.
This specialized Lincoln Park spot bakes a ground chicken and gooey blue cheese "cupcake".
