I'VE MADE IT!!

LOCATION: 800 W RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO, IL. 60607

I've finally made it to Au Cheval and let me tell you, it lived up to all the hype I've heard about it. Christel and I decided to go one day after a couple hours of bouldering nearby for a late lunch and I'm so happy we did. Our wait was only 5 or 10mins (as opposed to the 3 or 4 hours I've gotten before when I've tried to go for dinner) and we were seated in the back in a nice booth with the perfect spotlight for food.

She and I weren't sure how hungry we were so we just decided to share everything and started off with crispy fries with a mornay sauce, garlic aioli, and one fried farm egg. Christel loves eggs so we find any opportunity to put an egg on top of our food if it makes sense. These fries were great with an egg on top and that garlic aioli was fantastic. I love garlic aioli and while I'm not a dip kinda person, it's always a fantastic sauce to me that can't go wrong.

As a main dish we shared the single cheeseburger with bacon and an egg and while I'm not much of a burger person, I would love to have this burger again. This bacon is clearly more like a slab of pork belly which is one of my favorite things to eat. Christel was a fan of the egg on top which was cooked perfectly runny and packed all together, this burger couldn't be more perfect.

As we waited for our burger we could hear the couple next to us talk about their amazing burger and how they would love to cuddle up with this burger and order it again if they weren't so stuffed. They also mentioned that they read it was the best burger in Chicago and I wouldn't try to argue with this because this really was an amazing burger.