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This flatscreen-laden porcine saloon (distressed wooden floors, high-backed black banquettes...) from the former owner of Evanston's Lucky Platter's slinging specialty sauce-laden baby backs, pork-stuffed mushrooms, marinara-kicked meatballs (pork, obviously), and bacon-wrapped, cream cheese-stuffed jalapenos called Firecrackers, which mercifully don't require a trip to Hammond.
1625 W Irving Park Rd, btw Ashland and Marshfield; Lakeview; 773.281.7447
Opening Thursday and taking up 15,000 sq ft of the Ogilvie train station MetraMart development, CFM is an armada of nearly 30 colorfully canopied... more