Feed

FEED is right. I always leave here stuffed and with leftovers.
The food is great. Classic soul food. I usually get a quarter white with two sides: Mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. sometimes corn pudding. My only grievance is that sometimes my mashed potatoes are a little cold. But that’s it. I’m sure if I told them they’d heat them up but it’s not a big a deal to me. I have never tried any of the specials for some reason but I heard they’re great.
The décor is very cozy and kitsch. Staff is super nice and welcoming. One time I was here and Killer Tomatoes Strike Back was on. An interesting yet welcome selection as someone who is a big fan of comedy horror and the like. Try the Thai iced coffee, it’s the best I’ve had in Chicago I think.

By far my favorite restaurant in my hood. The portions are huge and the cost is not. I love the sides and their black bean cakes are the best I’ve ever eaten. Definitely recommend this place for a homey feel with good food. Also it’s BYOB. I may be biased bc they are 2 blocks away

Got a carry out and was expecting something great. Unfortunately, it was mediocre… the corn pudding was extremely dry, which made it inedible. Their chicken was good though and their banana pudding.

So there are many places nearby that you can go for a variety of different foods. However if you’re looking for home cooked, solid, tastey grill chicken and southern-​style sides this is the place to go. I also think they are very reasonably priced. I especially liked the décor is very eclectic and service staff was very nice. We have gone back several times and think it will be an all time favorite for us.

I liked what I got, but wasn’t blown away by the food. I had the BBQ Chicken sandwich and a biscuit. I probably wouldn’t order the biscuit again, a little dry. The sandwich was enjoyable, but didn’t stand out as any better than many sandwiches I had.
I will say that if I were to go back, I’d like to try their gumbo. I just wanted a side or cup of it, but I was told that it was $ 9.50 which is the price of the gumbo meal. A side gumbo for $ 5-​$ 6 would have been nice.

Obsessed with this place. For a healthy, home cooked meal, this is the spot! I have yet to try something from the menu that I haven’t liked. Customer service is good also.

The food here is great! I’m a creature of habit and almost always order their omelettes, but I’ve tried several of their dishes and it’s definitely satisfying. The service is great and the country style food always hits the spot. If you go on the weekend you may have to wait to be seated but during the week, you can just walk right in and order.

The place is nice. Feels like an authentic southern spot with only a few minor incongruities. The pork chop special was excellent and the collard greens, fried okra and mashed potatoes we enjoyable. The pulled pork sandwich was completely unpalatable. I won’t bite you with details but don’t order it unless you like stuff that is terrible.

We had brunch here based on the raves about the chicken fried steak. It looked great on the photo in Unilocal,but what we got was a lukewarm dish with gravy about the consistency of mashed potatoes, not bad flavor but not that great either. On top of that, all the cups and glasses smelled strongly of soap and imparted a soap flavor into the coffee, water, orange juice and sweet team. When I complained about the cups, the first thing I asked was if they had a dishwasher machine. They immediately said «Oh, did they taste like soap?» Turns out, they don’t have a machine, just a badly trained dishwashing person. I won’t be back.

In my honest opinion:
The food here is just mediocre. Got the ¼ chicken, dark meat with Mac and cheese, and corn pudding. The chicken was ok. Comparable to your grocery chain $ 5 rotisserie bird. Nothing too exciting.
The Mac? The texture is a bit too soft, flavor on the bland side, and the cheese tastes a bit processed. The corn pudding was less «pudding» and more «crumble».
My friend ordered the white meat chicken and it was pretty dry. Mashed potato was lumpy and lukewarm, and gravy was cold and lumpy as well. They serve you the chicken with flour tortillas instead of bread which is new to me when it comes to southern cuisine. But I’ll take it.
Pulled pork sandwich was good, but the bread didn’t quite hold up. It was pretty much soaked through and unable to be handled as a sandwich is supposed to. Bummer. And the sweet tea had a bit of a soapy flavor. This could be because it was the bottom of the dispenser, not sure. It doesn’t seem like the establishment is too concerned with keeping the drink dispensers, or salt and pepper shakers full as we had to search for the salt.
And don’t get me started on the bathroom. Two words: must (smell) and mold. Sorry Feed, I probably won’t be back.

I love this place!
I take my clients here because it is as authentic of a restaurant as you can find and they serve genuine, honest food in a no frills manner.
It is one giant room with quirky chicken and egg art all over the walls. There are booths on one side and tables in the middle. You make your choices off the chalk boards and then order at a window from the owner, usually.
Then the food comes out to your table and it is excellent. The food cannot be criticized and the coffee is exceptional.
Go here. Support this kind of raw, ragged entrepreneurism and eat well in the process. Then come back with others and show it to them. It’s an experience worth going out of your way for.

Literally the best chicken fried steak I have ever eaten, and the service was on point. This waitress doesn’t miss a beat

Stopped by for lunch because I was studying at a nearby café. The location isn’t the best. There didn’t seem to be many other open restaurants nearby per Unilocal.The interior was heavily chicken themed. Lots of pictures of chickens all over the walls, including a picture of a baby’s head on a chicken! Not many people present on a Monday during lunch time.
I did not get a good vibe from the person at the counter. I made eye contact with the woman at front and wasn’t greeted at all, even after I initiated. Definitely felt like she wasn’t having a lot of fun.
The fried chicken was average, maybe a bit better. None of the sides were particularly appealing. The mashed potatoes with gravy was bland in my opinion, the corn pudding was dry, and the mac and cheese was tasteless. The fried okra was on the better side and seemed fresher, as I did see the cook putting the frozen ones into the deep frier.
Reasonable prices, but cash only.

all these years later and Feed is still bringing it. Consistency is definitely a virtue at this little stripped down gem on the skits of the HP and Uk Village.

Stopped by for Sunday brunch because of the great reviews on Unilocal.
I am not exactly sure what there is to rave about. I ordered the biscuit and gravy with two eggs, and my friend ordered a bowl that had the works. We also ordered the corn pudding, mashed potatoes with gravy, and mac n cheese on the side. The cheese kind of smelled/​tasted like… velveeta.
I’m sure that we may have just ordered the wrong things but not only was there a bit of a wait (30+ minutes…) but my food was lukewarm to cold, the mashed potatoes and gravy resembled that out of a tv-​dinner box, and the mac n cheese was… pretty gross, to be honest.
My biscuit and gravy dish was incredibly disappointing — if would have been only slightly better had it come out hot. I had wished that I just ordered a biscuit with eggs at that point, but I could not even scrape the overwhelming amount of bland gravy off of everything. The taste… was like leftover rotisserie chicken + bacon grease with cornstarch.
The one decent dish — corn pudding (basically corn bread pudding). Alas, it needed to have come out hot.
Is hot food so much to ask for?

Meh… I ordered the Sausage Gravy & Biscuits and felt completely underwhelmed. I really wanted to like them, but a couple things: 1.) Biscuits were hard and cold 2.) Sausage Gravy had no Sausage 3.) Sausage Gravy was bland and tasted like flour with maybe a hint of bacon grease. The awesome sweet tea they had saved the day though, it was probably one of the better sweet teas I have had. Don’t know if I will be coming back…

This is the only place on the West Side worth going to. There is nothing out here. I work in the Ghetto, and it is a wasteland for non-​junkies. This is the only place within a reasonable drive, and they have some killer choices. The hanger steak rocks, the goat cheese omelette rocks, the blackened catfish, can you guess???, ROCKS!
i dig this joint, and so should you.

Came here on a Sunday around 1pm. We were seated quickly and given water right away. I love the interior! Cute and quirky. Reminds me of some breakfast places in Madison.
Had the fried green tomato Benedict. The cornbread was tasty, but very crumbly and therefore hard to get on the fork. The tomatoes could’ve been thicker and more substantial. It’s a great concept that was done poorly. The potatoes were amazing, though!
As for the service… It was a little spotty, but it seems like another server who was scheduled didn’t show up. Maybe that’s why they have service issues? Too loose of expectations with their servers?

We stopped by Feed for a nice Saturday morning brunch on the 4^th of July. It was beautiful sunny day, so we opted to sit around back on the patio, which had some cute strung porch lights, just enough shade, and 5ish tables. You had to walk around the block and through some people’s backyards to get from the main front part of the restaurant to the patio in the back, but it wasn’t too hard to find. Lively, but not-​overcrowded. We got to sit down right away without any wait.
I got the pulled pork hash with 2 over medium eggs and a slice of wheat toast. The hash browns were a mix of Idaho potatoes and sweet potatoes, lightly salted and seasoned, and browned to perfection. Sweet onions and pulled pork were grilled into the potato mix and then everything was topped with the fried eggs and toast. I thought the pork had a bit too much gristle/​fat in it and didn’t have any nice crispy bits like you’d normally get in pan fried pulled port or carnitas. Pulled pork shouldn’t be disappointing, but this definitely was (really, how can anyone do fatty pork badly?). Everything else on my plate was done really well though.
My 2 friends got the chicken and sausage pesto hash and the blackened catfish benedict (both were summer specials). The pesto hash was delicious (and I mean delicious!), but definitely on the heavy side and a little too much oil for any one person to eat. It was basically potato hash browns, pan fried sausage and chicken thigh pieces, all coated in pesto and topped with eggs/​toast. I should have gone with the catfish benedict, which was pepper cornbread topped with blackened catfish, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce. This was by far the best of our three dishes and I would come back to Feed again just for this dish!

I’ve had some meals here that were spectacular like the black bean patties and fried chicken, but I’ve had other meals served to me cold.
The staff isn’t as friendly as id like them to be. I’ve been here over 10 times and have definitely spoken to everyone except the cooks. But I still give this place 4 stars because it’s independently owned and places like this are needed in Chicago.
In the summer it’s great to have a beer and chill out back in the hidden patio.
If people learned to not have unreal expectations about restaurants they won’t be so sour about their experiences.
I’m down with feed.