Isla Filipino
15 W Washington St #105, Chicago
(773) 271-2988
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I was really looking forward to trying this place after hearing a lot about it. Unfortunately their food hall location is not the most ideal:/. I understand being in such a place can drive up the cost but 16 dollars for a snack size of rice and some steak with no other toppings was pretty underwhelming. For 16 dollars you can get pretty decent amount of food even in the loop.I hope they get to open a restaurant by themselves again and I will go visit again.
Isla Pilipina was extremely important to me as a cultural demonstration. It was there for me when i needed to show my white friends that I'm not simply a person who can eat literally two to three times more than them at a time. Plates would land at our table at IP and sent them into awe and fear, and me into excitement. Together we'd clean out a mountain of lumpia and a bucket's worth of, without question, the best fried chicken I've ever had.Flash forward...
I'm going to start this out by saying I don't even really like adobo. But, I was in Urbanspace picking up dinner with my dog and he loves a good adobo (he's Filipino), so I grabbed an order.HOWEVER. I took a small bite and holy. cow. It was insanely flavorful, the chicken was juicy yet had the perfect char from being grilled(?), and the sauce wasn't the usual soy sauce/vinegar-forward punch to the face my lola makes (sorry, lola). This was one of those dishes...
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