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| - I grew up in Tucson, Az, and I grew up with Luke's Italian Beef on Ft. Lowell, literally the best Italian beef and hot dogs and grinders I've ever had, without having ever been to Chicago.
So my dad tells me he had been to Portillo's in Chicago and that Luke's copied Portillo's. Says we should totally go, and so I'm expecting this AMAZING food.
We eat out a lot, and usually when we aren't impressed then we just shrug it off, but I was pretty disappointed here. We all were. The "big beef" was decent sized, but as bland as bland could be. Bland and dry. I also got a "southwest bbq chicken salad" and it looked like something from QuikTrip. And you know, I honestly think the salads at QT are better than that. It was supposed to come with BBQ ranch, but.... It just tasted like sweet watery mayonnaise in there. Oh man.... So disappointed. My daughter got the fried chicken croissant sandwich, which tasted OK, but was nothing to write home about. Standard fried chicken item, standard fried chicken taste. I sure hope the original Portillo's is better than this.
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