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Cebu

This easygoing Wicker Park café specializes in meaty, tangy-sauced home cooking from its namesake Filipino province of Cebu.

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Althea

Though this chi-chi vegan kitchen inside Saks Fifth Avenue trots the globe for flavor inspiration, the joyless menu ultimately falls flat.

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Finom Coffee

This delightful Irving Park café avenges the sad, cellophane-strangled coffee-shop sandwich with Hungarian small plates alongside high-grade coffees and tea.

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