Their Italian Beef is made in house and in my opinion is way, way better than Portillo's. The bread is pretty good as well. It holds up under the juice.
They have tasty sweet peppers and a very flavorful yet not too hot giardiniera.
Their Italian Sausage is tasty as well.
I usually get a beef or combo dipped with sweet and a side of hot as well as extra juice with a side of well done fries.
Let the beef drip on the fires and poor more juice on the fries. Put half the hot on the sandwich and the rest on the fries.
Then any beef pieces that fall off on the fries and have some beefy hot juicy fries.
The polish are good as well.
Not a fan of the dogs but that's because I'm a natural casing kind of guy. If you are ok with a no casing Vienna beef dog then you will be ok with the dogs.
They also have your standard Chicago tamale and pizza puffs.
I would eat there a few times a week if I lived closer.
This is a real Chicago beef and it's not packed in Chicago and shipped frozen to Phoenix.
You can tell it's real and homemade because sometimes it's OK, much of the time it's pretty good and other times it's fantastic.
My favorite beef is Al's on Taylor if you need a baseline for my tastebuds.
In Chicago Portillo's wouldn't even be on my list. There are far too many neighborhood beef stands to go to Portillo's in Chicago.
In Phoenix Lukes is by far my first choice. And it's family owned and operated.