Portillos
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harvest1121
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Polarisrider is by my house in Shorewood and that Portillos is like that from open to 10 at night.
polarisrider1
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Will do tomorrow. Had Greek Gyros tonight just south of Portillos on east side of street.
polarisrider1
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That place is insane. I thought they had a big promotion going on or something, the guy taking orders outside said like this all the time. Wow! I need to open one of these stores in GRAND Rapids, they make "Yesterdog " look like a cheap try at comparision.
rocketman356
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PR ,Thirty years ago it would of taken every resident in Shorewood to form that long of line.Your only three towns to the west of us now.
polarisrider1
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Every thing looks new except for the trailer park on Jefferson NW of 55
stiffneckrob
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Me thinks we should turn Fry Daddy's in Lowell into a satellite Portillos. 
Having lived near Crystal Lake for a few years and growing up near South Bend, IN I'm amazed that the Chicago influence hasn't crept up the shoreline.
If you ever wanna road trip I'm in. For now I pay the super high price and ship beef n rolls in once a year. There's also a place in Grand Haven that is 20% of what the dog and beef places are like in Chicago. Yesterdogs or Corner Bar just seem like dog food when compared to the Chicago joints!
Having lived near Crystal Lake for a few years and growing up near South Bend, IN I'm amazed that the Chicago influence hasn't crept up the shoreline.
If you ever wanna road trip I'm in. For now I pay the super high price and ship beef n rolls in once a year. There's also a place in Grand Haven that is 20% of what the dog and beef places are like in Chicago. Yesterdogs or Corner Bar just seem like dog food when compared to the Chicago joints!
polarisrider1
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Me thinks we should turn Fry Daddy's in Lowell into a satellite Portillos.
Having lived near Crystal Lake for a few years and growing up near South Bend, IN I'm amazed that the Chicago influence hasn't crept up the shoreline.
If you ever wanna road trip I'm in. For now I pay the super high price and ship beef n rolls in once a year. There's also a place in Grand Haven that is 20% of what the dog and beef places are like in Chicago. Yesterdogs or Corner Bar just seem like dog food when compared to the Chicago joints!
Corner bar uses cheap boiled in water dogs I don’t care for them. G&L dogs I do go to only because of my punch card I have there. We had Wolf Doggies for a while, nuff said. Fry Daddys, the rent there is dirt cheap, The parking lot could be made into a Drive thru. Or have dogs delivered out to waiting customers, I never go there now. Balls has the market on chilli dogs in my town.
For those that like portillos and don't live anywhere near one, portillos will ship their products anywhere. I shipped my brother a hotdog package once a few years ago. It came with the dogs, buns, all the toppings and instructions on how to make them like they do. I think it is all on their website.
polarisrider1
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That will take care of my Christmas list!
Spicy Red Neck
We vacationed in Manhattan last summer. Went to a little hole-in-the-wall diner called 'Eat Me'. No dining in you just order and wait for your food then take it with you. Everything on the menu is based on a hot dog, about 40 or so items to choose from. I had the 'Spicy Red Neck', and I've since made them at home a couple of times. Take your favorite hot dog, wrap it in bacon. Deep fry it until the bacon is cooked. Put it on a bun, add cole slaw, spicy brown mustard and jalapenos. I'm not a big jalapeno fan so I used banana peppers instead. These things are bomb-diggity.
We vacationed in Manhattan last summer. Went to a little hole-in-the-wall diner called 'Eat Me'. No dining in you just order and wait for your food then take it with you. Everything on the menu is based on a hot dog, about 40 or so items to choose from. I had the 'Spicy Red Neck', and I've since made them at home a couple of times. Take your favorite hot dog, wrap it in bacon. Deep fry it until the bacon is cooked. Put it on a bun, add cole slaw, spicy brown mustard and jalapenos. I'm not a big jalapeno fan so I used banana peppers instead. These things are bomb-diggity.
rocketman356
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Just pulled in a Portilla's and 7 cars waiting @ thedrive thru and thirty people already eating inside.Ten-thirty in the morning ,,,,How doo yaa say cha-ching.
stiffneckrob
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Ball's has the business cuz no one else in town even has hot dogs.
polarisrider1
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Ball's has the business cuz no one else in town even has hot dogs.
True. I suspect I will gain more weight here in Chicago lots of good places to eat and the job has been expanded to about 5 weeks here.
cat_man_mike
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Portillo's is great but if you want the best dog in the Chicago area, you have to try Gene & Jude's. By far, the best.
rocketman356
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PR try Louie's Chophouse 700 W.Jefferson Shorewood and for Pizza drive over to Mokena and I will buy yaa one @ Fox's.
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polarisrider1
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Thank you, I located Babes today.