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Bar Louie

Belly up to the bar

by Bix Engels

posted 11/27/2008

I’ll admit right up front that I don’t have much experience with chain restaurants—this summer, my friends had to walk me through a Dairy Queen excursion like a visitor from outer space. But I try to keep an open mind, so when a friend suggested I have a look at Bar Louie, the Liberty Street outpost of a popular Chicago-based chain, I thought, why not?

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