Illinois is filled with serious dining destinations, but some of its most memorable restaurants refuse to behave seriously. Much like California’s wonderfully weird restaurants, these Illinois favorites turn eating out into an affectionate form of theater.
Servers may insult customers, dance on counters or send dinner across the room on a model train. At one restaurant, the building itself appears to have been drawn with a black marker.
Ed Debevic’s in Chicago
Most restaurants train servers to be unfailingly polite. Ed Debevic’s trains them to deliver hamburgers with sarcasm.
The retro diner is famous for costumed servers who tease customers, adopt exaggerated personalities and occasionally dance on the counters. The mock rudeness is part of the performance, and diners are expected to laugh along rather than ask for the manager…