Does Anyone Remember the Name Of This Restaurant?

I have lurked for a long time and have finally registered.

I am trying to remember the name of the Chinese (Polynesian?) restaurant in Chicago on the west side of Wabash just north of Jackson. I worked in the area in the early 1990's and sometimes went there for lunch. I have heard it is no longer there. I seem to remember it had some connection to Pago Pago on Wells.

Hope someone can refresh my memory.

Jimmy Wong's was about a block
farther south, at about Van Buren.

Yes, there was a branch of Pago Pago on South Wabash, but it's been gone for many years.

Could it have been Pago Pago? A sign remains in roughly that location.

Thanks SCUBAChef, Amata & FJ123 but wasn't Jimmy Wong's --Not that far south (it was close to Exchecquer Pub) and even tho it had a tie to Pago Pago it had a different name. I have asked people I worked with to no avail and I'm running out of people to ask.

Could the restaurant you are referring to be "Kon Tiki Port." My mom used to work there.

bigd wrote:Could the restaurant you are referring to be "Kon Tiki Port." My mom used to work there.

I remember going there as a kid. It was a big deal to go there for dinner with Mom & Dad. Wasn't that inside the hotel that is now the Intercontinental on Michigan Avenue though? The one on Wabash was Trader Vic's.

I remember Kon Tiki Port - and yes, it was in what is now the Intercontinental - you had to enter on the side of the building. And Trader Vic's was in the basement of the Palmer House, right? (Although it may have had a separate Wabash entrance - I don't know about that.)

The other major restaurant in that category was Don the Beachcomber, which was another basement space on Walton (and was where my parents had their first date). That building was torn down and replaced by the mall that now houses Bloomiingdale's at 900 N. Michigan.

Loudon Wainwright III wrote: The good old days, they're good and gone now. That's why they're good ... because they're gone ...

Thanks for all your responses. It wasn't Kon-Tiki or Don the Beachcomber. It was just an old style plain restaurant with booths and tables and elderly women sitting in a back booth chopping veggies. Also, in addition to Exchecquer Pub, it was near Carl Fischer Music Store (also gone).

When sitting in a booth you could look up and see a loft-like area above. I don't know what it was used for tho.

charming woks?