Frontier, Noble Square

Frontier
1072 N. Milwaukee
Chicago

Date of Last Visit: Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Victims: Jeff, Jeff, Erica, and special international guests Nordic Nibbler & Mrs. Nordic Nibbler

I miss having a “local.” In London, I could always depend on The Peasant on St John Street or The Well, also on St John Street (and conveniently located next to Clerkenwell’s newest Waitrose. How I miss that Waitrose). My international guests always loved The Peasant and The Well, the former for its atmosphere, the latter for its food. (IMHO, the food at both was good, not great. But take an American tourist’s preconceived notions of British food, and both of these places do amazingly well.)

Anyhow, as the one-year anniversary of my repatriation approaches, I promise to refer to London less and less in blog posts that are not about London, lest I become one of “those people.” (If I’m not already so.) So let me focus on Frontier and Chicago.

I like Frontier. It’s hard not to given its proximity to my abode. I like their Tuesday night specials even more.

$2 OYSTERS. (See above.)

$2 TACOS. We watched as two guys got what had to have been a dozen tacos on the Tuesday we visited. We probably did good work on about six in total. For $2, these were pretty high quality tacos and much better (in my opinion) than La Pasadita’s on Ashland.

Better still, Frontier has fulfilled one of my US-demands…

$2 HALF PINTS. Half pints have been nearly impossible to find in Chicago. Even Owen & Engine doesn’t have them. But Frontier does!

Ah, and I neglected to take any photos of the outdoor patio, but it’s pretty awesome. This alone is reason to go.

(Frontier also offers $2 deviled eggs on Tuesday, but they’re not my sort of thing.)

The Verdict: I like it here. I’ll be back.