The best meals often happen at places where the fanciest seating option is a picnic bench that’s seen better decades.
Paradise Pup in Des Plaines is living proof that you don’t need a hostess stand or mood lighting to serve food that makes people weep with joy.
This compact red-roofed operation looks like someone decided to open a restaurant in a very ambitious garden shed, and somehow it works better than establishments with ten times the square footage.
The whole setup is refreshingly honest about what it is: a window, a grill, some picnic tables, and a commitment to making food that justifies the inevitable line…