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| Chicken Vesuvio
Harry Caray's is "The Official Home Plate of the Chicago Cubs," a great place to have some brews while watching games and an even better place to plow into great steaks, Italian fare, and a dish that is unique to Chicago, Chicken Vesuvio. Not too many restaurants in the Windy City offer it, but of those that do, this is by far the best version. It is a deliriously satisfying meal of chicken baked to utmost succulence encased in a red-gold crust of lush skin that slides from the meat as the meat slides from the bone. For garlic lovers in particular, it is sheer ecstasy.
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| Hot Pork
Ann Sather is best known for breakfast, but its reprtoire of comfort-food lunch and supper is impressive. This hot roast pork sandwich requires some serious preparation and demands sitting down with a knife and fork.
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| Rodger's Big Picnic
Michigan is farm country, a source of superb fruits and vegetables from spring berries through autumn apples. One of the best places to get to know the Michigan bounty is the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market on Detroit Street, open every Saturday throughout the year on Wednesdays, too, May through December. Here you will find farmers selling fresh-picked produce as well as maple syrup, jams and jellies, eggs and cheese. Rodger's Big Picnic is Zingerman's Deli's vegetarian ode to the market from which many great sandwich ingredients can be bought.
Specifically, this sandwich depends on good asparagus, preferably Michigan asparagus. Zingerman's Ari Weinzweig says, "I love roasting (as opposed to steaming) asparagus because it concentrates the flavors so nicely."
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