Dave148 wrote:How about Desiree' at the northwest corner of Oakton & Lincoln?

Fond memories. I used to date a Desiree' waitress.

i remember my sister asking for spagetti with out any sauce (we were like ten or less) and the waiter saying..."What's a matter you don't like our sauce?" in this very funny accent...the whole table cracked up, my sister tried the sauce and LOVED it

Chef JOe

Dave148 wrote:How about Desiree' at the northwest corner of Oakton & Lincoln?

I never ate there, but my friends and I drove past it all of the time on our way to tennis practice. For some odd reason or another, whenever we passed Desiree, we'd all yell "DDerrrrreeeeeee!".

This is a great thread - brings back a lot of memories. I especially like Sam & Hy's, the Chandelier, Herm's Palace (and there was another place close by just called Herm's, if I recall), Wesley's (which definitely existed into the 1970s). Never made it to Mark III but I passed by it a thousand times.

Darren72 wrote:Herm's Palace (and there was another place close by just called Herm's, if I recall)

Actually, it was called Big Herm's. The owners of Big Herm's and Herm's Palace had one of the classic feuds of all times. There was obviously some family-related bad blood at some point and they made no bones about hating each other (and God help you if you parked in Herm's Palace parking lot and ran across the street to grab a dog at Big Herm's. Your car would be damaged, towed or both.)

Dave148 wrote:How about Desiree' at the northwest corner of Oakton & Lincoln?

I even loved its later incarnations, where a Thai chef came in, and you could sit down and at one table order a patty melt (little did I know that Patty's around the corner was much better -- it looked sad), and a green curry.

I lived two blocks south of Oakton and Niles until I was four and a half, and my grandmother lived within two blocks of there for many years afterward, aside from the fact that I worked at Searle for 20 years -- so I was always around there.

What I most miss is Cock Robin, the Burger King that's a rent-a-car (I remember when they had crinkle fries), and the original Hut on Oakton, before the Corner Hut.

JoelF wrote:

Dave148 wrote:(little did I know that Patty's around the corner was much better -- it looked sad)

No worries. The Thai Deseree and Patty's didn't ever coexist.

For those of you that ate at Fanny's in Evanston

http://www.fannysofevanston.com/main.htm

chef joe

Thanks for that, chef joe!

BTW, Lum Taylor sure is an ugly SOB, isn't he?

For those of you that ate at Fanny's in Evanston

http://www.fannysofevanston.com/main.htm

Hey thanks so much for the above link. And I stand corrected on the description of Fanny's as 'Southern'. I'll blame it on the wonderful fried chicken, which we ordered without fail whenever we were there.

Anyone care to comment on Acres Delicatessen (later Zweig's) on the corner of Church and Crawford? They served up some fine vanilla phosphates with a Cheeseburger Deluxe and generally had very decent customary deli plates.

I also wonder if Dairy Queen on Dempster by chance is still there. Their butterscotch sundaes were quite a hit back in the day. Fun place to hang out too.

rfleisch1 wrote:Does anyone remember a small French place near the corner of East Prairie and Dempster called Columbo's?

I moved into the neighborhood back in the mid 80's, and recall visiting at least once before they closed. Food was reasonably priced and pretty well prepared, if memory serves me.

I remember this restaurant also. We went there with our neighbors c. 1985. They liked it well enough to suggest we all go there. I don't recall what I ordered but do remember that it was good. Always hoped to return some day but it closed before we had a chance. Besides being French I think it featured other Continental dishes.

The Mark IV has an interesting place in Chicago history. Mike Royko proposed to his first wife Carol in 1954. This according to Dick Ciccone's biography.

"He took her to a restaurant at Dempster and McCormick, which was virtually in the country, although in a few years it would be a cluttered intersection surrounded by shopping malls and apartment buildings. The restaurant was the Mark, which eventually became the Mark II, then the Mark III, and the Mark IV"

(I would have used strip malls for accuracy)

Ageless North Shore wrote:The Mark IV has an interesting place in Chicago history. Mike Royko proposed to his first wife Carol in 1954. This according to Dick Ciccone's biography.

"He took her to a restaurant at Dempster and McCormick, which was virtually in the country, although in a few years it would be a cluttered intersection surrounded by shopping malls and apartment buildings. The restaurant was the Mark, which eventually became the Mark II, then the Mark III, and the Mark IV"

(I would have used strip malls for accuracy)

There was more than one Mark # on Dempster. I don't remember the actual numbers, but I know there was at least 2 of them at one point. According to that quote it was all one place that just kept adding a number occasionally.

midas wrote:There was more than one Mark # on Dempster. I don't remember the actual numbers, but I know there was at least 2 of them at one point. According to that quote it was all one place that just kept adding a number occasionally.

I think there may have been one in Morton Grove @ Dempster & Waukegan where Produce World is now located.

Artie wrote:

midas wrote:There was more than one Mark # on Dempster. I don't remember the actual numbers, but I know there was at least 2 of them at one point. According to that quote it was all one place that just kept adding a number occasionally.

I think there may have been one in Morton Grove @ Dempster & Waukegan where Produce World is now located.

That had a number, but I think it was "November 5"

Named, allegedly, for the date Pope John Paul II visited Chicago.

Buddy

JoelF wrote:

Artie wrote:

midas wrote:There was more than one Mark # on Dempster. I don't remember the actual numbers, but I know there was at least 2 of them at one point. According to that quote it was all one place that just kept adding a number occasionally.

I think there may have been one in Morton Grove @ Dempster & Waukegan where Produce World is now located.

That had a number, but I think it was "November 5"

Yeah,I think you're right but maybe it was October.

It was October 5, not November 5. November 5 is a much more ridiculous name!

And before October 5, probably in the 1960's/1970's...it was called 'Vosnos'!

I don't know, the fifth of November is something you might remember remember

jnm123 wrote:It was October 5, not November 5. November 5 is a much more ridiculous name!

And before October 5, probably in the 1960's/1970's...it was called 'Vosnos'!

Holy Crap! That brings back memories.

Two local restaurants were torched in 1958: Allaguer's Fireside Restaurant on Touhy & Lincoln in Lincolnwood and Villa La Main on Main & McCormick in Skokie.

marty06 wrote:Let's not forget Barnum and Bagel.

I was just talking to my sister, who said she used to hang out at Barnum and Bagel when it was The Gold Coin. She's didn't remember a lot of the places mentioned here, especially east of Crawford. She went to Niles North, and never would go east of Crawford for food as that was considered Evanston High School kids territory. Niles North kids would be more in northwest Skokie and east Morton Grove. I'll ask my brother what other places he remembers.

The Inferno on Central in Evanston was a high school pizza hangout.

I used to --LOVE-- the beef shawarma at Falafel King.
Sam and Hy's was my intro to the tuna melt... and the soup and 1/2 sandwich concept.
Dengeo's used to have a sign that simply said "Gyros".
There was a great costume shop on Oakton.
I played on the "Giants" in the little league and swear we lost every game. I even struck out a few times at tee-ball.
There was a pharmacy on Crawford and Main (Dempster?) but I can't remember the name.
The Milk Pail on Howard was fun with the knight costume on display.
Tel-Aviv Kosher Pizza was fun (and still there on California)
Shang-Chai was a kosher chinese place on Howard maybe? I loved the egg foo yung there.

chef joe wrote:For those of you that ate at Fanny's in Evanston

http://www.fannysofevanston.com/main.htm

chef joe

That takes me back. I was probably 5 or 6 getting to eat spaghetti with the adults.

chicagofoodies wrote:There was a pharmacy on Crawford and Main (Dempster?) but I can't remember the name.

It was at Main and Crawford, and it was called Musket and Henriksen.

Everybody plus their third cousin would buy their Sunday papers there on a Saturday night. It was the Skokie social event of any given week---

There were some great pharmacies along Crawford from Devon to Church:

Mal's on Devon & Crawford
Orlove's on Lincoln between Pratt & Crawford
Weiner's, which later became Katz's on Touhy & Crawford
Musket & Henricksen on Main & Crawford
Landsman's on Church & Crawford

chicagofoodies wrote:The Milk Pail on Howard was fun with the knight costume on display.

The Milk Pail was on Devon just west of McCormick, wasn't it?

stevez wrote:

chicagofoodies wrote:The Milk Pail on Howard was fun with the knight costume on display.

The Milk Pail was on Devon just west of McCormick, wasn't it?

Yep

stevez wrote:The Milk Pail was on Devon just west of McCormick, wasn't it?

Circa 1980-1990 Milk Pail was, next to Shore Galleries.

Dave148 wrote:

stevez wrote:

chicagofoodies wrote:The Milk Pail on Howard was fun with the knight costume on display.

The Milk Pail was on Devon just west of McCormick, wasn't it?

Yep

My entire family (parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents) used to call it Dutch Dairy. I always wondered where that came from.