hawkeyebob62
Well-Known Member
an overrated chain of hot dog/burger joints. Never understood all the hype. Good...sure, but nothing special.
Started as The Dog House in Villa Park, then a "copycat" called Happy House opened in West Chicago. The Dog House concept took off, apparently, and became Portillo's. Happy House? Lasted a while, then became one of those "ice huts" vending machine things.
What Portillo's gets "right": dunking their Italian Beef sandwiches. I HATE places that dip about a centimeter of the sandwich when you say you want the damn thing drowned.
Other than that, yeah, pretty basic/average. They do have good seasonal beer selections, though.