Best Of MenuPages Reviews: South Side!

We may not do reviews at MenuPages, but our legions of users are all over that. Here are three of interest.

What up, South Side? Don’t think we’re not thinking about you. In the past week, we’ve gotten reviews for restaurants in Bridgeport, Hyde Park, and Hegewisch. They’re not destinations, but they ought to be.

On July 25th, “81 since 1980” had some lovely things to say about Club 81 Too down in exotic Hegewisch, on 131st Street and Avenue M:


I know, I know…they keep saying they have the best fried fish but for the last 26 years, I cant get over my passion for the BBQ chicken (white meat only). That’s all I ever order. Well, that and a pitcher of HighLife. It’s actually a trailer house attached to a bar. It’s like walking into a mobile home from 1979. Tacky but delightful. Dress sloppy - it’s ok. The food is delicious and cheap. My chicken goes for 8 bucks, with fries, coleslaw, cottage cheese, bread, and 2 raw green onions - trust me, it’s great. The owner is famous for walking around the table, telling bad jokes. They only have dinner on Wed & Friday nights. Cash only. All I can say is that I am a Club 81 lifer!!


“Tacky” and “sloppy” is just about the best you can hope for in a restaurant, isn’t it? Yep, it’s really quite a timewarp down there.

Anyway, the next review was not so kind. It was left on 7/28 by “Anonymous” for Healthy Food Lithuanian, and it was entitled, “this place is anything but healthy”:


I ordered the combination Koldunai (boiled meat dumplings and cheese dumplings with bacon and sour cream) and Kugelis (baked potato pudding with sour cream). It came with a barley soup that was tasteless. The dumplings were ok but the Kugelis was literally soaked in grease. Would not recommend.


Eek. Well, it’s true, but so tasty anyway! We suspect that the “healthy” part is a little ironic gift for those of us who know better. People always seem to think their national cuisine is healthy, even when it’s a pile of starch and oil, and we ignore them and eat our pierogi and latkes to spite ourselves.

Club 81 Too [MenuPages]

Healthy Food Lithuanian [MenuPages]

Rajun Cajun [MenuPages]


I disagree with some of the reviews on here about this place. The prices are actually very low and the Indian food is usually very good– sometimes excellent. I’ve been to most of the Indian restaurants in Chicago (in Devon and elsewhere) and the ones that are much better than the Rajun Cajun are also much, much more expensive. In this price-range, the Indian food at Rajun Cajun rivals that of any other Indian restaurant in Chicago. I’ve always been impressed by this place and I find it hard to account for the complaints on here– I suspect it has something to do with the tendency among U. of C. students to complain about everything.


Eek. Well, it’s true, but so tasty anyway! We suspect that the “healthy” part is a little ironic gift for those of us who know better. People always seem to think their national cuisine is healthy, even when it’s a pile of starch and oil, and we ignore them and eat our pierogi and latkes to spite ourselves.

Club 81 Too [MenuPages]

Healthy Food Lithuanian [MenuPages]

Rajun Cajun [MenuPages]

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Best Of MenuPages Reviews: South Side!