For you Chicago foodies, you’d have to practically be in a coma to have not heard of a little restaurant called Tru. Tru is undoubtedly one of the best restaurants in the city, but attached to that title, shared by restaurants like Charlie Trotters and Alinea (which was listed 10th in the San Pelligrino World’s 50 best restaurants), is a rather steep pricetag, a prix fixe menu, and a stuffy dress code (for the dudes at least – we women get off by wearing cute tops, new shoes, and dresses, which is easy). Thus, while you may have heard of the places, you’ve likely been like myself and crossed those restaurants off your list and instead filled your “places to eat” list with other lovelies in Chicago, like Hot Chocolate, Mado, Publican, Blackbird, etc. I attended grad school downtown at Northwestern, and our program’s offices were in the same...
