24 hour places in chicago.

Sorry, but was wondering if anyone could be kind enough to point me out to any previous posts about 24 hour places in the city, I did a search but couldn't find anything. The only place I know of are maxwells/jim's by UIC, and white palace grill. I think Tempo and the orginal Billy Goat are open 24 hours? If you know of any places good or bad please respond. Thanks!

I know that Clarke's in both Wrigleyvlle and Lincoln Park are 24-hours. I don't believe they're location in Evanston is. It's Diner food. Not the best but definetly edible

LINCOLN PARK
2441 Lincoln Avenue
(773) 472-3505

WRIGLEYVILLE
930 West Belmont
(773) 348-5988

so are (according to City search (thier top 25 - I excluded the ones in subarbs)

San Soo Gap San
5247 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625-2447

Lazo's Tacos
2009 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647-4103

Aria
200 N Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Go to Website

Tempo Cafe
6 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611-2012

Clarke's on Belmont
930 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657-4493

Caminos de Michoacan
4651 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640

Clarke's Pancake House
2441 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614-2414

Nookies Tree
3334 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657

Melrose Restaurant
3233 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60657-3514

Deluxe Diner
6349 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660

Baba Palace
334 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60610-3006

Diner Grill
1635 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613-2526

Hollywood Grill
1601 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622-2246

El Quijote Restaurant
4761 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640

Hope this helps. You can also get a 24 guide to chicago restuarants at http://www.abstractpublishing.com/nitel ... 4food.html

In terms of what LTH said about them. You can search by the resturant. It may be more helpful that way. Since you'll be able to choose which resturants to search based on where they are located and the type of food you're looking for. 24 hour resturants in chicago are plentiful but if you're looking for something close to you it may be more helpful to know what resturants are by you and then see what has been said. Best of luck
Heather
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FoodSnob77 wrote:I did a search but couldn't find anything.

FYI, snob, while we love our LTH, it's a common sentiment that the search function leaves a little to be desired. If you're having trouble finding something, try doing a Google search with the tag "site:lthforum.com" on the end (sans quotes). For example, the following search...

"24 hour" site:lthforum.com

...should set you in the right direction.

Hope that helps

24 hours spots in Evanston are limited. Two I know of are the Burger King on Orrington and Clarke, and the IHOP on Howard and Ridge. Slim pickings. As long as you are at Howard, you might as well head south a bit and eat at GNR winner Hae Woon Dae at 6240 N. California.

El Famous is open 24 hrs on Fri and Sat night, ok tacos, not a destination but I love their smooth style red salsa

The Rogers Park one is dramatically better than their other locations imho.

El Famous
Clark St. 1 block north of Lunt.

If you want 24 hours in Evanston, you can add Steak and Shake by Home Depot on Oakton, too. It is was it is. Sometimes it's the perfect thing for that part of the day. . . .

El Presidente
Ashland and Wrightwood.

plymouth court on plymouth court south of jackson in loop. next to john marshall law skool and across from great soup by evil ronnie!

I could really use an updated list for when I work nights and don't want to cook when I get home. Any place that's open past midnight would be best. All over the city and suburbs (especially the north 'burbs). I'll start:

Omega
9100 Golf Rd., Niles

Sally's is open late, til midnight on the weekends at least
5454 N. Harlem, Chicago

Blue Angel
5310 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

Big Top
6348 W. Higgins, Chicago

White Palace Grill
1159 S. Canal St., Chicago

Late Night Thai (open 9pm to 4am Sun, Tue-Thu, 5am Fri and Sat)
1650 W. Belmont, Chicago

George's Kabab Grill
3216 W Lawrence Ave
Chicago, IL‎ (773) 588-1800‎

Would have nominated it as GNR if I had thought hard enough.

I wanted to nominate it last cycle, but this crowd is way too picky, especially about Middle Easternistani food.

Luckily, George's Grill Kabab transcends merely temporal accolades. They are, in fact, a PNR. A permanent, neighborhood, restaurant.

I'm not picky!

Mods - Feel free to combine this with Help with Late Night Dining.

I'm putting together a comprehensive list of all places open past midnight. Does anyone know of a way that I can create a link for people to click on and print for all times? I'm not tech savvy!

How inclusive are you making it?
Just the city proper or suburbs too?
Only "proper" restaurants or are you interested in knowing that the IHOP on Noth Avenue in Oak Park is 24/7?

Pie Lady wrote:I'm putting together a comprehensive list of all places open past midnight. Does anyone know of a way that I can create a link for people to click on and print for all times? I'm not tech savvy!

Maybe create a Google doc, with view permissions set to "all with link" whether they have Google logins or not (or view and edit permissions if you want to tempt fate?) You can then provide a link in a post, and maybe it'll get stickied. Since people can download in any format (including Word and .pdf), you won't have to worry about formatting or loading a discrete document somewhere. All you need is a gmail account to create one.

Add GNR Jimmy's Red Hots - best hot dog and fries I ever had there was at 1:55 AM last weekend, and I swear the enjoyment was a product of their condition and not mine.

zoid wrote:How inclusive are you making it?
Just the city proper or suburbs too?
Only "proper" restaurants or are you interested in knowing that the IHOP on Noth Avenue in Oak Park is 24/7?

The city and burbs. It's basically the name, address, and hours; if there are days that they close before 12am, those days are not included. All restaurants besides national fast food chains like McDonalds; there's so many you can find one in any city easily. In the case of an extensive list such as IHOP, I have listed it thusly:

IHOP, various locations; see also BURBS:
4201 N. Cicero
2818 W. Diversey
3760 N. Halsted
24 hours
Many others are open til midnight.

IHOP, various locations; see also CITY:
Addison, Arlington Heights, Bridgeview, Buffalo Grove, Crestwood, Evanston, Hoffman Estates, McHenry, Melrose Park, Orland Park, Rosemont, Saint Charles, Waukegan.
24 hours.
Many others are open til midnight.

PL, are you looking for info on how to make a link, or are you looking for restaurants that belong on the link? (I can possibly be helpful on the latter question, and probably not helpful at all on the former question.)

I'm looking for how to make a link to a list that I'm making myself.

I'd update the list based on LTHer recommendations and places I find during my late-night munchie hunts.

Aegean Isles serves until 4am on Saturday!! I was going to stop in yesterday and didn't and now I'm kicking myself. The menu looks delicious so I'm very excited to try.
http://www.aegeanislesrestaurant.com/index.php

El Farol
6136 S Archer Rd
Summit Argo, IL 60501
708 563-1022

Good time late night food!

Isn't our namesake Three Happiness open quite late? Yelp says open 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., but I don't know if I trust them.

Occasionally Mr. Pie and I will go out with our dude friends to Leona's. We'll sit forever and chat and then realize we should probably give them back their table. It's about then that I say, hey, let's go get some pie! But the only thing open near Devon & Sheridan is Baker's Square at Touhy and Western, and only until midnight. Are there any other good places for pie around there that are open late? For that matter, are there any dessert places open past 12?

Not addressing your newest question, but I believe the Golden Apple at Lincoln, Wellington and Southport is open 24 hours, and Mitchell's on Clybourn and Racine is open 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays.

Pie Lady wrote:Occasionally Mr. Pie and I will go out with our dude friends to Leona's. We'll sit forever and chat and then realize we should probably give them back their table. It's about then that I say, hey, let's go get some pie! But the only thing open near Devon & Sheridan is Baker's Square at Touhy and Western, and only until midnight. Are there any other good places for pie around there that are open late? For that matter, are there any dessert places open past 12?

About a 100 years ago (Ok really about 30) I would go to the IHOP at Howard and Asbury and get their apple pie a la mode. I see earlier in this thread it's still listed as being open 24 hours. I really have no idea if they even sell pie anymore, but it was pretty good for 3AM.

if you're still looking for 24 hour places...

some of my faves are:

Restaurant y Pozoleria San Juan
1523 N. Pulaski Rd
8 a.m.-1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday; 24 hours Friday-Saturday (opens 8 a.m. Friday, closes 1 a.m. Sunday)

Two Way Grill
4351 North Elston Avenue

Suzie's Drive-In
4126 W Montrose Ave

Jeri's Grill
4357 N Western Ave

also, the various Golden Nuggets around the city are 24hrs.

This might be slightly off topic since the places I'm bringing up are not 24 hr operations, at least they open late, and they are both in Chinatown:
MING HING, 2168 S Archer at the west end of Chinatown Square, the new dim sum 'king' of the city IMHO, otherwise only decent regular fare. BUT they are open till 2am everyday, plus it's the only place that offers dim sum from 9pm till midnight as far as I know.
Not surprisingly, also open late is their more hipster sibling CHI CAFE, just a few doors down at 2169 S Archer.
Their hours are:
Sunday to Thursday 8am - 2am
Friday & Saturday 8am - 5am!! I guess the staff needs a bathroom break...

Lawrence's Fisheries
2120 S Canal St
Chicago, IL 60616- 529
Ph : (312) 225-2113
http://www.lawrencesfisheries.net/

alessio20 wrote:George's Kabab Grill
3216 W Lawrence Ave
Chicago, IL‎ (773) 588-1800‎

Would have nominated it as GNR if I had thought hard enough.

I tried to go here yesterday but they were refinishing the floors, so I had to try Baghdad Kabab almost next door. Odd experience. Although they are also open 24 hours.

3200 W. Lawrence
http://www.baghdadkabab.com

And so is Shawarma Inn at 5523 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago.

trpt2345 wrote:Isn't our namesake Three Happiness open quite late? Yelp says open 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., but I don't know if I trust them.

I was happily shocked to learn just a few days ago that "Little" Three Happiness is in fact open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.