Pedway Eats

My employer moved to 111 E. Wacker last year and we have been exploring the pedway more and more. Today I discovered Cafe 200, which may be a Wolfgang Puck enterprise, in the pedway under the Aon Corporation building at 200 E. Randolph. I can't find much internet info on it.

What's your favorite pedway eatery?

I have worked in the Aon building for 7 years now. Cafe 200 is the building cafeteria. It is possible that Wolfgang's company owns this enterprise, as there is a cooler with some pre-made salads bearing the name of Wolfgang Puck.

Really, Cafe 200 has standard food court fare. My firm requires us to cater exclusively from Cafe 200 and I can attest to the fact the catered food is thoroughly mediocre.

Cafe 200 has a bar in the back where the Cubs game can be found during lunch which is a saving grace I recently discovered.

If you continue through the pedway into the Prudential building, there is a cute Italian cafe (Roma, I think) which has decent sandwiches and good coffee.

I hear through the grapvine that Jimmy Johns is coming soon to the pedway near Salad Spinners.

How is watching the Cubs during your lunch good for anything except heartburn?

Is that Caffe Rom you are referring to?
http://www.cafferom.com/

And also forgot to mention that I found a handy pedway guide on some racks down in the pedway, with maps of the retailers that are located in the various pedways.

The best thing in the pedway, or at least the best new thing, has to be the new Hannah's Bretzel. Also decent sushi and noodles at Hey Sushi.

I'd love to see that list of places. It has always amazed me that, as far as I can tell, there's no place on-line that has such a list.

Dairy Queen is nice for a summer treat! It's in the "official" pedway by the First Chicago (now Chase, I guess) building.

I guess I never thought of the places previous posters have mentioned as being in the pedway. Those places are in what my co-workers and I always called "the concourse," or the whole underground maze under Boulevard Towers, the Prudential Building, One and Three Illinois Centers, etc. My own definition of the pedway is the maze that runs from from under the Fairmont all the way to to Illinois Center and a few other places.

Anyway, it's all in the semantics, huh?

A ton of people I know love Jaffa Bagels (in the concourse between Boulevard Towers and the One Illinois Center) for their turkey sandwich lunch special. I'm a vegetarian so I can't vouch for it. But it seems like a deal!

I've lived in Chicago just about all my life but until a few weeks ago when I read David Tamarkin's article in Time Out Chicago, I had no idea the pedway even existed. Here's a link to the article:

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/Details. ... ground.xml

I work at Aon center right now and the cafe 200 has nothing to do with the wolfgang puck enterprise, they do sell their salads and what not but that's all the relationship there is.
The cafeteria is run by a group called Euro crest and they also run the cafeteria at another loop building.

Actually I don't find their food too bad at all, for a cafeteria... afterall if you work there long enough and eat there all the time, nothing taste really all that good after a while

Agnes

I also work at the AON bldg and Cafe 200 is run by Eurest, a catering group run by the Compass Group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurest