Andie's Restaurant

Good food
I have been wanting to try this place for awhile so I was pretty excited. The restaurant is very cute, dark, intimate, and romantic. Perfect for a date night. They have a bar but it's also BYOB with a $7 corkage fee. Service is very friendly and patient.

The complimentary pita chips and cucumber yogurt were good. Crispy pita slices with the subtle yogurt... Mmm. My shawerma was delicious. Thin slices of beef perfectly seasoned and cooked. I chose the dill rice as my side since everyone raves about it on yelp, and yum it was good. I didn't even need the tahini sauce, there was already so much flavor. My bf got the osco bocco. The lamb was very tender and fell right off the bone but lacked bold flavor. It was rather bland. He ended up adding salt. The asparagus side was a small portion. Pita bread was warm, soft, and yummy. We ordered the tiramisu dessert. It was light and looked pretty but not the best we had.

We had a restaurant.com certificate that wasn't good towards the corkage fee, only good towards the food. I've never had that issue before. It was only a $2 difference so I didn't care, but it's the principle. So beware.

Took my husband here for a birthday dinner before going to see the Neo-Futurists up the street. The food was really good and the service was excellent.

Like almost everyone there, we ordered the flaming cheese. What's not to like? It gives off what is probably the best smell ever, it bursts into flames, and it's deelicious. Everything else we ordered off the specials menu, which our waiter suggested we look at closely. The chorizo stuffed dates wrapped in proscuitto were spectacular: the tomato sauce they were served with had an unusually distinctive flavor profile, and we mopped it all up with the pita they put on the table as a starter.

My husband had the seafood tagine, which was full of seafood and vegetables and served in a rustic stoneware tagine. He gave it two thumbs up. I had the moroccan chicken b'stilla, which I'd read about in a cookbook once, and was excited to have a chance to try. It was delicious, full of chicken and raisins and other delights, and less sweet than I'd imagined. The couscous it was served with had a slightly smoky tomato flavor, and was very pleasantly aromatic.

The waitstaff were extremely accommodating, and brought over a tiramisu with a candle for my husband. To our great delight, they comped it! We had it with the turkish coffee for two, which was dark and unctuous.

We got there fairly early - a little before six - and the place filled up by the time we left around seven fifteen. It's very spacious and pleasant inside. We joked about how the service was so good that we would have to deduct a star from the yelp review because the perfectly honed balance of attention and space was a little disconcerting.

We'd definitely go back if we lived in Chicago.

Andie's Restaurant was a place a gal pal of mine and I decided to try last night due to  the fact we didn't feel like dining at Reza's Restaurant. We were in the mood for some good Mediterranean food and wanted to try a new place for once. And we were pleasantly surprised the food was really good.

My friend ordered the lamb chops and I had their trio entree with basmati rice. My entree  had chicken kabob, beef kefta and filet mignon kabob and it was delicious as well as filling in my tummy. We also tried their hummus and their falafel it was very good and their pita bread was soft and yummy too. I would return to this establishment with my husband next time.