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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about French Restaurants in Chicago

Maxim's made the list...
Maxim’s made the list… Photo: courtesy of Explore Chicago

We were just sent this link from Alain Maes, a French food and wine consultant, who has put together a startlingly complete roundup of French food in the Windy City between the years 1959 and 1969. He divides the list between “Restaurants that were actually owned and/or managed by French people” and “Restaurants that pretended to be ‘French’ and sometimes served decent ‘French’ food but were not owned or managed by French people.” Awesome, right? This is, in fact, his second dispatch on the subject, and you can expect “1969-1979 The Fantastic Decade,” to be posted next. [French Virtual Cafe]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about French Restaurants in Chicago