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| - Finding ourselves west of the city at dinner time on a Saturday night, we ate at Ditka's, the only upscale restaurant around. It's a typical steakhouse, with a limited menu focused on steaks, a good wine list, and high prices. We didn't get steaks, choosing the single crab cake dinner with brown rice and coleslaw. The crab cakes were excellent, slaw pretty good, and the rice was dry. The server was efficient and professional, and bold, recommending a $130 bottle of Chardonnay. I was somewhat flattered that I appeared to be able to afford such a bottle, but couldn't bring myself to indulge. Relative to the other upscale steakhouses (excluding from consideration Morton's, which is a temple to waste, excess, pretense, and crude conspicuous consumption), Ditka's is in the bottom half of the league in terms of the overall experience, but also at below average prices. If you're west of the city it's a good choice for dinner, but not a destination in itself.
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