Irazu

lektrogirl

IRAZU 19th January 2009

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Irazu serves Costa Rican food: lots of beans, fried sweet plantains, cornchips, eggs, steak, salad and oatmeal milkshakes. I always drank a coke here but I heard the milkshakes are pretty good. If you want a beer you have to BYO. Irazu is a bit ordinary looking but super cheap and big portions [hey we're in America!] There are tables out front in a concrete "garden" for when it is either a] too rammed inside which it often is or b] a really nice night and you want to sit outside.
This was the first restaurant my future husband took me to in America the first time I went to visit him there. Irazu was a regular eatery of his. One time before a party, Paul and I had a MASSIVE fight where I stormed off down the road and Irazu was the only place I knew where to go. Apparently, shortly after my exit, ambulances screamed past the doors of Camp Gay and Paul thought I got run over being all confused having to walk on the opposite side of the road or something. However I was chewing my way through an exceptional Irazu platter while the ambulances were attending to a shoot out in the McDonalds drive-by down the road. Sounds all a bit ghetto, seriously one of my favourites and locals love it too.

This place place isn't the kind of place you would beg your parents to take you for your birthday or book a table or hooking up with J-Lo nothing like that but the food there is really great and worth a visit if you are in Chicago.