Chicago 'Cheap Eats' Will Show You How To Eat 4 Meals Out For $35
By Mae Rice in Food on May 10, 2016 9:14PM
Hot on the heels of Anthony Bourdain's Chicago episode of Parts Unknown, another food show is dropping a Chicago episode: Cheap Eats, the new Cooking Channel show hosted by Ali Kahn.
The show's Thursday episode will highlight four cheap, good dishes at cheap, good restaurants in Chicago. This is the ongoing premise of the show: Kahn spends 12 hours in a city, and eats three meals and a snack there on a $35 budget.
Here's how the show officially teases the episode:
Ali Khan's Windy City expectations are as high as Chicago's Willis Tower, so his breakfast is a tower of fried chicken, biscuits, egg and bacon. For lunch, Ali dives into the city's unofficial sandwich, the Italian beef. He scores a killer chocolate almond croissant at a bakery with a child baker protege and brings down the house with a unique mac and cheese with a gourmet twist.
They tried way too hard to mention the Willis Tower, but also that sounds delicious. I don't know what "unique mac and cheese" is, but I would totally watch a TV man eat it.
The Sun-Times has Kahn's itinerary, too. Apparently, it went like this:
* Breakfast at The Roost Carolina Kitchen (West Town)
* Lunch at Nottoli & Son (Belmont Heights)
* Snack at Hendrickx Belgium Bread Crafter (Gold Coast)
* Dinner at Luella's Southern Kitchen (Ravenswood)
It's honestly an incredible feat that he only spent $35 at all these places combined, especially considering he ventured into the Gold Coast (where even the Starbucks is nicer than my entire life).
The Thursday episode of Cheap Eats airs on the Cooking Channel at 9 p.m. CST.