Flavors of the West Loop
From military lattes to meatball sandwiches, Indian to Italian, this tour hits affordable highlights in Chicago’s trendiest neighborhood.
- Theme
- Food & Drink
- Location
- West Loop, Chicago
- Duration
- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Designer
- Uptaste
Experience
Route
Sawada Coffee
Sawada Coffee is a rare coffee shop that really knows how to whisk their matcha too. Fresh-baked doughnuts from Doughnut Vault are available daily. There’s plenty of bleacher-style seating and a few tables too.
Uncooked
Uncooked specializes in raw, vegan and gluten-free food with breakfast and lunch options in a grab-and-go format. There are juices, smoothies and creative lattes too.
Nonna’s Pizza & Sandwiches
Nonna’s Pizza & Sandwiches is a casual grab-and-go concept adjacent to more elegant Italian restaurant Formento’s next door. The meatball sub and eggplant parmesan are classics, along with the antipasti chopped salad.
Gajin
Gaijin is a casual Japanese restaurant that specializes in okonomiyaki – savory Japanese cabbage pancakes – and kakigori shaved ice. Customize your okonomiyaki and pair it with sake or a seasonal highball.
ROOH Chicago
ROOH Chicago strikes gold with its elevation of traditional Indian home cooking with artful presentation and a delicate balance of flavors. Chef Sujan Sarkar’s butter chicken is the best in North America.
About
This route was designed by Uptaste.
Uptaste
What is Uptaste? We’re something like a travel agency business (although we don’t sell flights or hotels). Instead, we specialise in finding the right place to eat, wherever and whenever you are, using location intelligence combined with expert and community curation. Uptaste destinations will rarely be restaurants; they’ll be shops, they’ll be street traders, they’ll be local markets, or some other easy-to-miss but hard-to-forget place.