Need a Restaurant in Hinsdale Area

Hi

Picking my college age daughter up at the Hinsdale oasis on 294 in the middle of rush hour and dinner time. Could I get a recommendations for a restaurant in the area. Thanks to all. We like all kinds of foods.

Which way are you going to be pointing, north or south?

Pointing north: Get off at Ogden West, drive to Cass, make a right, and pull into Katy's Dumplings (turn right at the pizza hut, it's in the back corner of the little strip mall).

Pointing south: Get off at 55 South, get off at 83 North, follow the sign's for Del Rhea's Chicken Basket (it's actually on the frontage road, you'll pass it just before you get off 55).

Katy's is maybe $12/person if you splurge, Del Rhea's is closer to $15, maybe $18 if you splurge and get the buffet.

I'm not trying to be snide but have you tried the search function of this site yet? Your paramaters are a little broad and posters to this board tend to appreciate a little effort when a first time poster asks a "tell me where to eat" question.

You might get higher quality responses if you post something like "I tried searching but only came up with a recommendation for the Mexican restaurant that closed"

You might also let people know how far you're willing to travel. So they don't recommend Downer's Grove if you only want to stay near the tollway.

Also, do you want fancy schmancy, dinky store front, anything inbetween?

BTW, Welcome! Please let us know where you picked, and maybe a short review (even 25-30 words) of what you had and if you liked it.

Diannie wrote:Also, do you want fancy schmancy, dinky store front, anything inbetween?

If you want fancy schmancy (not dressy though - think "casual fine dining"), that's right near Vie, in Western Springs, which features contemporary American cuisine. It's outstanding.

Link to restaurant website
Link to LTH discussion

Not my part of town, but here's a Google Maps search of places mentioned on LTH near Hinsdale Oasis (which perhaps surprisingly comes up as a direct hit on a simple Google Maps search)

Here's the same area of the map with LTH GNR restaurants flagged; I tried to get these added to the map above, but sometimes when I choose "link to this page" in Google Maps it doesn't have the same idea of "this" as I do.

On DKoblesky's recommendation I dropped by Hua Ting in Hinsdale for lunch this week, and it hit the spot. Great booths and service, American Chinese menu with all the little things done right - choice of soup, lots of white pepper and fresh scallion on the hot and sour, fresh and well-fried vegetarian egg roll with very sharp mustard, simple Mongolian beef with reasonable steak and balanced sauce, nice chili oil on request, delicious orange slices at the end of the meal, "real" orange juice and fresh tea for drinking. No hidden Chinatown menu I could detect, but the right touches on what they're doing makes this eminently recommendable. I'll add it to Tae Fu and Gong Ho (75th and Lemont) to the list of places I'll go slightly out of my way for when that particular craving hits (though my stomach and freezer do lead me to Katy's more often in the general area).

We stopped eating at Hua Ting when the ownership changed a couple of years ago. All our favorite dishes became mere shadows--they looked almost OK but tasted lifeless. Potstickers became giant doughy things, Sesame Crispy chicken got limp and the sweet/sour balance was lost, and other items were just not the same. I'm glad to hear you had an enjoyable meal--maybe the "new" chef has gotten better.

Well, as I said, I would never compare them to a place like Lao Sze Chuan. It is, well, not bad, and ocasionally, ok to good. I never sit back and go 'wow' like I do every time I ever go to Lao Sze Chuan.