Recommended places to eat this weekend

Its not for everyone. I'm a foodie. Lets approach it this way: lets say you want to pick up some steaks for a weekend cookout. Would you spend 50% more for the same cut of beef if it is USDA Prime instead of USDA Choice? I would. If you said "I'll take the cheaper one, they are both the same cut of meat," you'll want M&B deli over zingermans. If you're like me and you can really taste and appreciate the difference between two things that aren't much different on paper, you spend the extra $ and get the prime steaks. You get zingermans. If you want pastrami because you love pastrami, go to M&B. If you want the pastrami experience of a lifetime and you're willing to pay a premium, go to zingermans. There is no wrong choice. Its a matter of preference. But to say zingerman's is "nothing special" is spiteful and ignorant.

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define not superior.  You might not like it better as a personal taste thing but the bread from the roadhouse>the bread maize and blue buys from meijer, the cheese from the dairy and other sources around the region and world> than the processed cheese you can get from meijer used at maize and blue.  The corned beef and pastrami are the same but the variety of menu options at zingermans is greater.

The reality is also that if you are just buying a sandwich your are doing it wrong at zingermans.  They spend a lot of money on training staff to be knowledgable about food and having ingredients and food you don't normally see.  That training and getting those different ingredients is factored into the price so if you aren't taking advantage of that you aren't taking advantage of what you are paying for.  Not to mention you don't have to care about these things but Zingermans pays its staff better, offers pto, retirement help, etc. to full time staff, is active in the community, donates 10% of profits every year to charity, etc.  All of that contributes to a higher price.  You don't have to care about those things, to pretend like there aren't real legitimate differences between the two places that account for the difference in price is just being stupid.

I used to go there when my Dad was in town for games.

They also opened a Chicago location last year (2016) on Clark Street in northeast Lincoln Park, about a mile or so south of Wrigley Field. It's like going into a 70's time warp when you walk in, decor-wise. Lots of good beers, and the crack fries are awesome.