re: Little Village Downtown suggestions

Decent quality meets very well-chosen location. Folks banking on memories of Mrs Fanny Distefano's original, which is a BR Alltime Top 5er Restraurant.

Downtown has the bankers, lawyers, and politico crowds. Airline has the Industriplex, Highland, Airline biz owner and management crowd, plus soccer-moms doing lunch crowds.

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from the outside looking in (reading the usual comments about this place - and having never been to little village), I can't help but wonder how on earth this place stays open.

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The food is all very good and it is an upscale-feeling restaurant without upscale prices all around (although many items are overpriced). But the problem with this place is you have to know precisely what to order.

You can spend $150 just as easily as you can spend $50.

I only go for their Italian. We don't go out for steaks much.. I'm not a huge fan. Their Italian dishes are ~$15 so it's a good deal, but if you've never been and you order the specials not knowing the prices (and one of their overpriced glasses of house wine for $12), you can easily spend way too much.