Dove's Luncheonette

Since Dove's isn't your standard restaurant, we wouldn't receive a greasy dish with overdone bacon and rubbery eggs. No, since Dove's is the newest addition to the nouveau diner scene, which also includes Little Goat Diner and Au Cheval, we would be eating blood sausage and drinking Bloody Marys. Au Cheval is dark and glitzy, like all of Brendan Sodikoff's restaurants, while Little Goat is a noisy family restaurant that serves foot-tall goat burgers, so none of them really have the vibe of an old-school diner.

However, Dove's exudes the spirit of one. One Off Hospitality's newest restaurant, Dove's (Publican, Avec, and others), is housed in the same building as the relocated taco take-out window and is located right next to One Off's Big Star. The quaint restaurant's only seating options are padded stools set atop the steel countertops that surround its outside. From nine in the morning until ten or eleven at night, it is open. A record player is playing in the corner, with a jukebox on the way, and a black and white board listing breakfast and dessert specials is also there. There are large windows looking out over the Damen Avenue CTA construction, vintage photographs on the walls, and counters furnished with paper placemats featuring mountainous landscapes.

Google Rating: 4.7/5.0
Address: 1545 N Damen AveChicago60622
Phone: 773-645-4060
Opening hours: Mon-Thu 9am-10pm, Fri, Sat 9am-11pm, Sun 9am-10pm
Website: http://www.doveschicago.com/