Cuisine: American/ Burgers
Location: 666 W Diversey Parkway, Chicago, IL
Price: $ - $$
Food: 3.5*
Service: ****
Overall: 3.5*
Website: http://www.thecounterburger.com
Excluding my lunchtime sandwich mainstays on Noyes St. in Evanston, The Counter marks my first time going out to eat since returning to Chicago from my trip home to Taiwan. The future roommates-to-be and I go apartment hunting in Lincoln Park and Lakeview on Sunday, where we come to meet a very… peculiar leasing agent1, but unfortunately fail to find the place of our dreams. As the only one of our trio who is neither working nor studying (read: doing absolutely nothing) at the time, I volunteer to go back out on Monday to continue our apartment search.
By the end of my appointment on Monday, it’s 2 p.m. and I’m exhausted, having not eaten lunch yet. So I decide to venture around Lincoln Park and find somewhere to eat alone.
It’s not long before I run into The Counter – a place that draws me in with its open space and pristine interior2. A burger bar that is casual enough that I don’t feel weird eating alone, but the place certainly looks nicer than a Chipotle3.
