Chicago Red Hots

Get your Chicago meal and a bag of herion! Stay away from this place! I only know cause the Arab man offered it to me because I was good looking. No thank you

The bulletproof glass throws people off but their barbecue sandwich is delicious. This place is penny cheap and it’s open till like 3 – 4 am. I went there once on Christmas at like 2am and sure enough, it was the only place open. Be careful when waiting for your food though, there are some sketchy characters that can stroll in at anytime. I usually sit in my car until the man flags me down to get the food.

Chicago Red hot’s may look like a dive and have bulletproof glass in its lobby, but don’t let that prevent you from tasting their food. This is one of my secret spots on a busy street where I go when I am craving that Italian beef sandwich. They start with some thin sliced beef, top it with hot giardiniera, a choice of cheese and then dunk then entire sandwich in a tub of warm au jus.
When you bite into this sandwich you need to be sitting down or you will lose that wonderful taste on the floor. Then you top it off with a side of their crispy French fries and a coke. You couldn’t ask for a better sandwich.

Being a Chicago native and loving a good hotdog and fries for lunch, I was pretty happy to find this place near work. Now the sign says Chicago Red Hots, but if you tell ‘em everything on it you will in fact get a squirt of ketchup on there, and the bun isn’t poppyseed, and I haven’t noticed the presence of celery salt (but a lot of people, despite their culinary roots [or claims thereof], can’t pick up on that, so maybe that’s not so important), but the dog itself is mighty tasty and they get all the critical dressing on there, including the sport peppers. And the fries are very good too. Good itaian beef (giardinara if you want it, and they dip it in the juice unless you tell them no. myself, i like it soggy and sloppy but some do not). Good polish sausage and italian sausage. All in all, a good place to get lunch.
now the décor bears mentioning. this may be the only bulletproof beef stand (to use another piece of chicago-​ese) I’ve ever patronized. heavy lexan (i think its lexan) and an intercom system for ordering, and a lazy susan apparatus also designed out of lexan. actually it looks like a miniature revolving door. interesting. i didn’t think that neighborhood was that bad. or maybe the proprietor just happens to be an artist who works in lexan. who knows? I like the food. reasonably priced, excellent lunch chow.