Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Price: $4.29
Availability: 11 A.M. – 5 P.M., Mon. – Sat.; call to be sure
Location: 1724 S. River Rd., Des Plaines, IL 60018 (map); phone: (847) 699-8590
Rating: 5 out of 5 – great
Status: independent
Judging by the regular restaurant hours listed above, you can see how this decidedly non-chain establishment doesn’t really cater to the dinner crowd. Reports seem to indicate lines out the door on Saturdays, so the 5-10 minutes I might wait on any given weekday to make an order might appear quite reasonable in comparison. If the time (and fuel spent) driving out to this northwest suburb from the city only makes a trip out to River Road that much more doubtful, take heart: the Char Cheddar Burger at Paradise Pup is destination dining for this Snob, and it’s well worth your money.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Price: $2.19; paid – $2.19
Promotion: coupon for free orange juice (regularly $1.19) with any breakfast sandwich
Availability: breakfast hours
Location: 6261 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL 60659 (map); phone: (773) 588-1976
Rating: 5 out of 5 – great
It’s been a long (okay, relatively short) time coming, but here it is: the first 5-out-of-5 rating allotted. I’d been saving this ace in the hole to show what kind of dish deserves the highest marks in the ranks of (in this case, breakfast) fast food. Does that mean there won’t be other “great” ratings to come? Of course not. This just means that the Burger King Sausage Croissan’wich is fast food of the highest taste and value (the bacon and ham varieties — not so much…), hopefully to be joined by other specimens of equal quality in the future.
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Price: $0.89
Price: $2.49; paid – $1.39