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Restaurant Review:

Modern prices, ingredients at Antique Taco

Kyle Stanevich
STAFF WRITER

After being featured on Check, Please!
PBS Chicago’s restaurant review show, and re-
ceiving glowing recommendations from almost
everyone I decided to stop into Antique Taco and

. try out these famous tacos. This little eatery in

Wicker Park did not live up the hype surrounding
it.

Antique Taco is a very busy place. I
went there around 2 p.m, well after lunchtime,
and the place was still packed to the top with
people. I could not imagine what it would be like
during the lunch hours. The place is very small
with only a few communal tables to sit at. If it
were not freezing outside, there would have been

some outdoor seating eliminating some of the

crowd.

Despite the cramped place and other
customers saving spots for their friends, I was
able to snag a table from a couple finishing their
meal. The wait for the food was pretty long, es-
pecially just for tacos, yet the kitchen was hard at
Work trying to keep up with all the customers and
take out orders. ‘

I was able to sample three dishes: the
sweet and spicy chicken tacos, pork carnitas ta-
cos, and a taco salad.

The chicken was cooked to perfec—
tion, extra juicy and seasoned great. There was
a very interesting mix of non-traditional taco
seasonings on it such as curry, honey yogurt, and
pickled purple onion. The pork was just as good.
cooked to fall'apart in the mouth. It came with
lime, avocado, barbeque sauce, bacon and more.

The salad was very sweet, a little too
much for me, but still tasty. It was spiced up
with tons of seasonings and some onions, tortilla
strips, and spicy peanuts for crunch.

For dessert, 1 sampled the homemade
pop tart, a dish of ice cream with a cinnamon
encrusted pulf filled with melted chocolate on
the side. It was delicious, tasting just like s’mores
fresh oil the bonfire. Overall the food was excel-
lent,‘ providing an interesting non-traditional
twist on tacos.

It was the atmosphere and prices that
were a turn off for me. The place was extremely
packed, making the communal seating necessary.

However, it is not the best place to
share a conversation with people right over your
shoulder. Contradicting the word “antique” in
its name, the staff was an eclectic looking group,
adding to the unique “rugged modern” atmo-
sphere, a style not everyone appreciates.

Price wise, it was quite expensive; $7 to
$8 for a single dish of just two tacos. It would have
taken at least two to three of these dishes to fill me
up completely, making it not the best economical
choice.

If you have some extra cash to spend
and don’t mind a hipster interior, I could not
think of a better place to eat. The food is delicious,
not traditional, but well crafted.

Antique Taco

1360 N Milwaukee Ave

Chicago, IL 60622

Scale (1-10): Woo-hoo! on the food,
eh on the atmosphere.

Cost: Average of $15 to$20 per person;
addiontional sides at an additional cost , not in—
cluding drinks.

Oddities: Hipster atmosphere, small
location.

Visit wwwantiquetacocom for more
information, and find them on Facebook, or their
Instagram to keep up with these pricey but palat—
able tacos!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

Photos courtesy ofAn tique Taco‘s Instagram, @antiquetaco

 

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