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After spending a whole bunch of hours at the Printers Row Lit Fest, we decided we should grab something to eat before heading home. We started out for Chutney Joe’s but it looked empty and maybe like it wasn’t open. I noticed Epic Burger was right next door and since we’d heard a lot about it and hadn’t been, we headed there.

Love the orange decor.

The Epic Burgers with bleu cheese were ok - pretty greasy but ok. If we hadn’t just had fabulous Booby burgers we’d have probably thought they were better than ok. But, there you have it. They just don’t hold a candle to the Big Boob.

The fries on the other hand were excellent. Just how I like them. The right size, the right texture - needed salt but that’s ok, all fries need salt and there were plenty of salt shakers handy to fix that right up.

I should mention the price, it’s a little on the expensive side - more than $20 for just burgers, fries and drinks. That’s too much considering we only paid $25 for all of the stuff we ordered at Booby’s.

Sunday was “beaning day”, the anniversary of the day that TW took me to Waffle House in Anderson, SC and asked me to “be her girlfriend” - it’s called beaning day because she gave me a gold coffee bean charm.

This year, living in Chicago, it’s pretty much impossible to go to a Waffle House to celebrate. (The nearest Waffle House is in Indiana - which is not too far to drive for a Waffle House except that the little kids were here this weekend and leaving them home alone with TW’s mom, for five hours seemed a little wrong.)

So, I grabbed the Urban Spoon app and went looking for a new to us diner/greasy spoon. I had some ideas about where to go but then I thought… maybe there’s a Huddle House closer than Indiana… Google said there was one in Chicago (Albany Park) so I grabbed the directions… only to find out it isn’t a real Huddle House as in the southern chain. It’s a knock off called The Huddle House Grill.

That’s ok, according the reviews and articles I found… it still seemed Waffle House-like enough to give it a try… so we went.

It’s right across from the Kimball St station. It’s a greasy spoon, for sure. With greasy spoon prices. And greasy spoon decor. And also greasy spoon waitresses.

The food was nothing to write home about (I had biscuits & gravy and hash browns. TW had a greek cheese omelet and hash browns.) We won’t go back unless we just happen to be in that neck of the woods (odds are slim) and in need of a greasy spoon fix.

Still… it was as close to Waffle House as we could come this year, and that made it well worth the visit.