What to say? Meh! Although it might be 2.5 stars, but it's for sure not 3.
One more place that I can add to my list of things that don't live up to the hype.
Had the Italian Beef and Chicago Dog.
First the beef. You could tell the beef was pretty good quality and to my surprise there was more than enough of it for my tastes. We ordered the sandwich dipped so the good news is that it made the bread edible. Had it not been that way I expect the clearly stale bread would have been on the inedible side. As for flavor about the only thing you could taste was the dip. The beef had no discernible flavor on it's own. Having said that I found the dip to be high on the pepper side and as such I got to taste it for several hours later.
Now the hot dog. I don't claim to be an expert on Chicago cuisine, but I'm pretty sure a Chicago dog includes celery salt. None here...nada, zip, zero. Oddly enough that little missing ingredient makes a lot of difference. The dog also comes with fries. Now most places on the planet the fries come on a separate plate/bag/cup/whatever. Not here. Fries come wrapped in the paper that contains the dog. I wasn't digging this little innovation.
There are all kinds of signs/posters in the place telling you about how good the sandwich is and who says so. Also on one of those TV food/travel channel competitions the beef sandwich was named the winner for the midwest region as the best sandwich in America. As of this writing the overall winner hasn't been named but if the beef sandwich comes even remotely close to winning, I'm going to throw my TV out the window.
This place isn't even remotely close to where I live, but since I was in the neighborhood we stopped in. I wouldn't make a special trip, but I might give it a try again (just to see if I can "get it") if I'm ever back in the neighborhood.