CHICAGO JOE’S

ELV had lunch at Chicago Joe’s last Friday. It was probably the twentieth time we’ve eaten there in the last 18 years. It was as awful as ever.

Actually, there isn’t much more to this post. Chicago Joe’s remains in business for reasons that are inexplicable to ELV. All we can surmise is that it provides cheap, red-sauce, American-Eye-talian food to cheapskates who demand something a little better than Olive Garden when they want bastardized Italian cuisine. Among the eight other eaters I was sharing a table with, some of them professed to enjoy their baked lasagna and the world’s worst looking steak sandwich. The spumoni also disappeared rather quickly, but how badly can you screw up store-bought ice cream?

On the plus side, it’s one of the few places downtown you can get a full meal after dark. If you don’t mind burnt bread, cheap cheese, and abysmal house wine, you’ll have the time of your life.

Chicago Joe’s

820 South 4th St.

Las Vegas, NV 89101

702.382.5637

www.chicagojoesrestaurant.com

5 thoughts on “CHICAGO JOE’S

  1. Check out Rao’s for great, comfort-style Italian food. Ok, I’m partial as I not only did the opening PR for the restaurant, I am also friends with the Chef and owners (and represent their New York enterprise, Baldoria). But for really great Italian food, in this style, with a huge helping of hospitality that adds to the overall experience – it doesn’t get better than Rao’s in this city.

  2. Isn’t Rao’s just another Italian American restaurant?
    My question for all you Italian experts out there is how did Italian Americans stray so far from the food of their home land?
    Having returned this spring from my first trip to Italy I was amazed at the simple, clean flavors of the food. It made me almost resent the dark hammered sauces that pass for Italian food here in the U.S.

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