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| - I have driven by this place hundreds of times and told myself I should drop in when I am in the mood for a Gyros. Frankly my degree of motivation to do so wasn't very high. Everything about it is a huge turnoff ... the look of the place, the location, the general feeling that this would be a place to go if you were in the mood to get food poisoning. I'm glad my "reasonable and logical" side lost out today to my "screw it, I want a Gyros and I want it now" side, so we headed over.
Okay here's the point that I want so much to give this place a 1-star review and tell you to stay away for the very selfish reason that I don't want the place to get so wildly popular that some off the hook guy with spikey hair finds out about it and next thing you know the owner wants to make it all fancy and put a rooftop patio on it and start opening Chicago Gyros stores in Scottsdale and all kinds of other snooty places. Because that would ruin it.
But my mama and George Washington told me never to tell a lie and I'm bound by honor and ethics to write an honest review. And the honest truth is, holy cow (er, lamb) this is one amazing hole in the wall restaurant!
First off, you walk in and the insides don't look anything like the outside. No rats or cockroaches or anything like that. The place is huge compared to what I expected and clean and kinda funky fun. Whereas I expected some transient-looking guy to be slicing Gyro meat off of a questionable looking slab onto semi-moldy pitas Chicago Gyros has an amazingly complete menu of Mediterranean inspired sandwiches and salads and stuff like Chicago Dogs, Italian Beef's and other Windy City specialties. It was early afternoon on a weekday and the place had a (short) line of customers but orders were ready lickety-split.
Note that they're not cheap ... lunch for the two of us topped $25 before tip, which is about $24.95 more than the place looks like from the outside. The Gyro meat was tender and flavorful and there was plenty of it. The pita thick and warm. The tzatziki fresh as were the tomato and onion slices. The people who work there were friendly and laid-back.
So I've done a pretty poor job of keeping this place a secret I guess. That's okay, as long as they don't screw it up and try to make it all fancy I will be back over and over, I can't wait to see if their Chicago Dogs are authentic (I bet they are) and put it on my short list of places to drop in whenever I'm running errands in the neighborhood.
A solid 5-star joint.
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