Three local restaurants. Three warm, tasty sandwiches. Which is the best?
I have to be in a certain mood to enjoy a Reuben. It's large enough that I need an appetite that a burger or pasta won't quite satisfy. I need to be in the mood to sit and actively digest food (and hopefully good conversation and/or television) after eating this grilled sandwich with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and dressing. That mood hit last week, so I accepted a Chowdown Showdown challenge to consume three of these monstrous sandwiches in close proximity. How else was I going to discover who offers the best Reuben in Yorkville? Sunfields Restaurant First, I hit up Sunfields, which wowed me not too long ago with its freshly squeeze orange juice and Sunfields Benedict. The Reuben was admittedly less impressive. The bread was …
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Sunfields Restaurant
382 E Veterans Pkwy, Yorkville, IL
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Lakeview Grille
604 W Veterans Pkwy, Yorkville, IL
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Stonefire Restaurant
2075 Marketview Dr, Yorkville, IL
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How do you say gyros? Jy-ros? Yee-row? Forget the pronunciation, Yorkville Patch writer Marcus Schulz goes in search of the perfect local version of the Greek classic.
Yorkville gyros may sound to some like a Greek myth. Yet Yorkville has several restaurants providing excellent gyros variations. Greek gyros, pronounced something like yee-row, normally consist of pork meat sliced from a rotisserie, tomato, onion and tzatziki sauce on a pita. However, many “American” gyros are made with lamb or a combination of beef and lamb. Sunfields Restaurant, 382 E. Veterans Pkwy The Greek owners at Sunfields Restaurant know how to make gyros. Their gyros platter comes with a healthy portion of sliced gyros, tzatziki sauce, sliced tomato, onions and cucumber, un-pitted kalamata olives, chunks of feta cheese and a quarter-sliced pita on a bed of lettuce. The $8.29 platter also came with a bowl of soup and plate of …
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Smokey's
1002 S Main St, Yorkville, IL
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Sunfields Restaurant
382 E Veterans Pkwy, Yorkville, IL
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Silver Dollars
102 Stagecoach Trl, Yorkville, IL
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In dedication to all the pizza lovers in Yorkville, I taste-tested a few to rate the best in town.
For this segment of Chowdown Showdown, I visited a few local pizzerias to find the parlor who deserves the best pizza prize for the Yorkville area. A pizza is the perfect dish for a Sunday football game, birthday parties, and other fun casual occasions. I judged the following pizza’s by taste and quality and recommended the one that stands as most excellent. Genoa Pizza, 202 E Countryside Parkway My first stop was Genoa Pizza where I tried the thin crust cheese and sausage pizza. Once I entered the small shop I was overwhelmed by the smell of pasty sauce, herbs, and other ingredients. The pizza smelled so good I dug right in and completely forgot to take a photo of the pizza as a whole. It was that good! The flavorful sauce was tasty with …
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Suzy's Pizza/Suzy's Bar and Grill
4353 Tuma Rd, Yorkville, IL
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Genoa Pizza
202 E Countryside Pky, Yorkville, IL
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Maciano's Pizza & Pasta
272 E Veterans Pkwy, Yorkville, IL
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Judi Guimarin
12:32 pm on Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Yum, I love Reuben's. So many good reviews from our readers, it's going to take a while to try all these suggestions. more ›