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Check out the red-and-black checkered floors, the ceramic mugs hanging over head and that beautiful looking bar. (Chuck Sudo)
While waiting for the Procession of St. Rocco to pass yesterday, we began to feel pangs of hunger. Rather than pray to the Patron Saint of Pestilence, we asked for a menu at Bertucci's Corner. The corner itself is known as "Bertucci's Corner;" the family has been a longtime presence in Chinatown and many members of the family are also members of the Order of St. Rocco.
This place is one of the best known restaurants in the Chinatown-Bridgeport corridor and with good reason. It's comfortable and virtually unchanged since the doors first opened in 1935. It's one of those restaurants like Twin Anchors that just feels like you're walking into a museum to eat. The focus here is on standard Italian comfort food, which they do with no frills, no fuss.
Bertucci's Corner, 300 W. 24th St., 312-225-2848.
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I love this place. The steak parm is the best. It doesn't hurt that the waitresses have some of the best Chicago accents I have heard since I moved here.
Chuck, please tell me that "fried" ravioli is actually meat-filled toasted ravioli, a St. Louis tradition.
It's a rarity to find it up here, and the few times I have, it's always cheese-filled and gross.
Jeff: Not toasted, but definitely meat-filled. Still tasty.
Well, they just call it toasted, but it's actually fried.