Manny's Cafeteria and Delicatessen

Since 1942, Manny's Coffee Shop, Inc. has been providing Retail - Cafeteria from Chicago. Manny's Coffee Shop, Inc. is incorporated in Illinois.

There are fresh-squeezed orange, grapefruit and tomato juices, plus a soda fountain with retro classics like Green River.

"Don't let the linoleum fool you" because "they don't make restaurants like this anymore" say fans of this "legit" South Loop "institution" (with a Midway sib) where "monstrous sandwiches", "hard-to-choose-from" steam trays and other deli "classics" ("talk about comfort food") are the path to "gastro heaven" – and an "awesome value for your money" too; the "sparse" "cafeteria-style" environs...

Manny's is the quintessential deli: buzzing, big and loaded with people of all sorts. (It's also a hometown fave of President Obama.) Grab a plastic tray and head down the food-service line. From the steam table to soft drinks, it's loaded with enough to seduce. The chicken soup with matzoh ball or kreplach is one of the best in town. Corned beef, chopped liver, tongue, brisket and pastrami...

This is where the old-school machine politicos go to slap backs and wash one hand with the other while presiding over mountainous corned beef and pastrami sandwiches. How do those aldermen do it? You'll need both hands on the tray they give you just to guide one of their sandwiches back to your table. Try to listen in on neighboring dealmakers because otherwise the cafeteria environment is as...

In Short
The corned beef and pastrami palace of the southwest Loop, this cafeteria-style diner also serves breakfast plates of hash: corned beef piled high and scattered with bits of... Pros + great corned beef sandwichesold-school cafeteria atmosphere

Manny's is a bustling, no-nonsense, combination delicatessen/diner. No tablecloths, no fine china, just plastic forks and thin paper napkins. The menu is immense, but folks flock to Manny's for the corned beef sandwiches, arguably the best in town. The corned beef is shaved razor-thin and piled into a mountain between two slices of dark rye bread. The most favored accompaniment is a...