Mr G’s Beef

The favorable reviews made me give it a try. I ordered Chicken parmigiana meal. The sandwich came on hamburger bun with sesame seeds, and very mediocre sauce. Ok, it didn’t give me a upset stomach but otherwise it was pretty bad.

OH no! They’ve closed. An eviction notice is on the front door.
PS: Dear MR T, why would you go to a place dozens of times if you thought it wasn’t that good? You’re saying I and the others who have liked this place are giblet heads?! BAHAHAHAHA!

I would give Mr G’s a 4 star review minimum.
But then they stopped offering delivery. Boo-​urns.

We did not receive the fries with the value meal. There was no sauce for the gyro, just served dry.
The ceaser salad did not come as described in menu. Forgot the croutons, and iceberg lettuce was used instead of romaine lettuce. So basically a bowl of iceberg lettuce.
Rude service from owner/​mgr. He refused to fix order. Horrible experience. Wtf?

I’ve lived across the street from Mr. G’s for a year now, and have watched the quality steadily increase. If you’re looking for a hot dog, Italian beef, or gyro that will hit a primal spot, this is a great place to go. The fries have gotten significantly better, although they sometimes forget to salt them. The owners are old-​school Chicago and extremely nice. If you’re only looking to spend under $ 3 on a meal (this is easy here), I’d suggest bringing cash since they will give you crap/won’t ring you up (Come on guys, don’t see the point in paying a credit card fee for a single hot dog or a single soda.).

The chicken salad was awesome, the gyros are great, the fries are crispy, too!
I will be ordering from here again.

0 stars
Wouldn’t accept credit for drink

Stellar service!!!
Great Chicago fast food spot!
Italian beef, pizza puff, cheese fries, mozz sticks were all on the spot.
I will return!

Good prices. Good dawgs. Good italian beef, friendly workers. What brought this up to four stars for me are the fries. GREAT fries. Hand cut, crispy, salty, nommmmm.
Can’t beat the location and I dig the fact that it’s byob.

Great prices, friendly service & a menu with something for everyone. I’d much rather come here any day than the McDonald’s across the street. Not only because it’s better quality, but it also supports a mom n pop business. This neighborhood needed a nice little hot dog place & Mr G’s more than fills that void!
So, you get a better value, better food & feel better by supporting Mr G’s.

Went a few times not long after they opened.
Had an ok beef and mediocre fries.
Stopped going.
Went today.
Had an excellent beef, and terrific fries.
Honestly, these fries I just finished eating kicked the shit out of McD’s next door.
Good fries are a rare and beautiful thing.
Bad fries are a bummer.
When a restaurant takes their bad fries and works on them and makes them into good fries, it’s like, the highest achievement of restaurantouring.
It is nature’s Michelin Star.
Bravo, Mr. G’s!
Keep up the good work!

I find myself rationing trips to Mr G’s– it’s just not healthy for a man eat an Italian Beef w/​giadinieria and the amazing homemade french fries as often as I’d like.
The combo in question comes out to an easy $ 7 (including a drink) and the guys behind the counter are always friendly and helpful.
I’m docking them an imaginary star for not being open late enough– 2am is prime Mr G’s time, if only they were open!

Early for an event in Logan Square, I decided to grab some supper. Stopped at Mr G’s Beef and I’m glad I did. Had the Gyros plate. It was great and reasonably priced.
Friendly people behind the counter. Ample sized and very clean sit down area including window facing — watch the world go by — seating. Watched some Olympic news on the screen. Couldn’t ask for more.
If ever my travels take me back to Logan Square, I know where I’m headed when hunger hits.

Great specials, superbly cheap and pretty quick turnaround times.
The Chicago dog is the best value on the menu and is my standard order here. Bonus: It’s cheaper than at Daddy Cool’s down the road. Closer to my apartment too!
The cheese fries, oh my! They don’t skimp on the cheese. So good.
Pizza looks greasy as hell and really good. They seem to run out of the sausage slices pretty quickly though so I haven’t been able to get a slice yet.
I wish this joint the best of luck; hopefully it’ll last longer than its two predecessors.
Overall, pleasantly surprised at the quality for the price and at their consistency of product.

My phone was run over by a car yesterday so I hopped on the bus to the T-​Mobile store. The phone is in critical condition but this review is not about T-​Mobile.
I am a woman about my food. Feelings get hurt when mama is hungry. Life stresses I can handle just fine, but a phone in critical condition and a grumbling stomach led me to walk from the store in route to McDonalds. But oh did I stop just before crossing the street at Mr. G’s Beef.
For reals, thee. best. hour. I have spent at an eatery in a long time. As others have stated, but definitely needs to be stated again, the level of customer service was phenomenal! Dave (?) is easy on the eyes and very pleasant. My ladies will agree with me on this.
After deliberating (yea, it’s that serious) with another customer (a regular) over what he’d tried and found to be tasty, I settled on a Gyro meal. If I am not mistaken, I paid under 8 bucks and proceeded to find my seat at the counter adjacent to the window.
I mourned my phone about 5 – 7 minutes then my order was ready.
Holy-​hell! When I say I am picky about my Gyro-​sauce, I mean it. It has to be good and it has to be HOMEMADE, which btw, I was told that everything on the menu, with the exception of a few frozen appetizers, are just that. The Gyro-​sauce was perfect and complete with fresh cuts of cucumber and perfectly complimented the sandwich. I have found that it takes skill to build a perfect Gyro. Mr. G seems to know the formula.
The Kronos, I was told, is cut from the highest grade (there are 3) that money can buy. The pita bread was just crisp enough and there was just enough meat. It really is that simple folks. And with that I was sold. Add tomatoes, fresh onion, fresh-​cut fries (w cheese-​sauce) and a raspberry iced-​tea and you’re in business and well on your way to Unilocal-​super-​stardom.
A woman of my word, I’d asked if they were on Unilocal and here you have just read the beginnings of a wonderfully romantic love affair after a very bad break-​up.
RIP to my phone.

I stopped in here to try the pizza by the slice, and was very pleasantly surprised. I lucked into getting a pizza fresh out of the oven, free of heat lamp aging, and was pleased. The slice was mini-​New York style; loaded with cheese, with fresh Italian sausage flaked with fennel, and it was greasy as hell. Some days you need a greasy slice of pizza to soak up the prior evening’s activities; if you find yourself in such a dilemma, Mr. G’s is the place.
Plus, at $ 3 for a slice and a soda, the price cannot be beat. Service is friendly, to boot. A neighborhood cannot have too many shops for slices, and so Mr. G’s is a welcome addition to the Square.
Some say the Italian Beef is worthwhile as well, I’ll have to get back to you on that.

Beef — hot, dipped, mozz
I love taquerias as much as any Logan Square junk-​foodie, but am glad to see traditional Chicago food arrive. Mr. G’s is my new favorite italian beef — I rate them over Al’s.
When they first opened up, I agree with the other reviews — it was hectic and not so good. But now they’re in a groove — they’ve gotten their craft down, and are serving the best beef in Logan Square.

This is a good new place in Logan Square, filling a well-​needed niche of independent fast food options outside of tacos and burritos. Being from the suburbs, I’ve sampled a good amount of the hot dog and beef fast food joints that litter the area. Mr G’s is great in price, simplicity of the menu and portion size.
I ordered a polish sausage with fries and found the ‘chicago style’ toppings to be great with some not-​too-​greasy fries (very hard to find) served along with them. The sausage was a little too firm and dry to be ideal, but I found the service to be friendly and fast for made-​to-​order food. I expect a lot of the areas to get better with time and I’ll definitely be going back on a late night for a cheap burger, hot dog or beef.

Alright, no. I really wanted to like this place.
In what used to be the old El Pollo Loco, I was excited about a beef stand opening up so close to my apartment. Logan needed one seeing as the best burger option is at D&L up on Belmont and Kimball, which can sometimes be a bit of a hike when you’re hammered. None the less, I was genuinely thrilled to see they were slated to open.
Oy.
I went in and ordered a beef, dipped, with fries and a coke. I was the only customer in there, yet they had a grill man, a dude on the condiment/​beef/​hot dog station, a guy on the fry station, and the cashier working as an expo, all yelling and hustling about as if they were on Top Chef.
«YOU HAVE MY FRY GOING?! ONE FRY ALL DAY, NEED IT WITH THAT BEEF!»
«GOT YOUR FRY COMIN’ IN TWO MINUTES. FRY ALMOST UP.»
«…WHERE IS MY FRY?! I GOT THE BEEF I NEED THAT FRY!»
«FRY COMIN’ UP IN ONE MINUTE.»
All while running around like mad, with extra hustle on one order. It appeared to be four guys in the weeds over one ticket of three items that should be slap and done. Now, I work in kitchens. I’ve worked the line with high volume in fine dining in New York City and Chicago. That shouldn’t be happening. It seriously took ten minutes for my order. I chalked it up to opening jitters or working out the kinks. Sadly, that dog and pony show was for naught because the food was relatively terrible. The beef was incredibly dry and tasted like Scalia’s out of a bag, and the fries, which were obviously the achilles heel on the line, tasted as if they were just par-​fried at 275 and not re-​fried. Totally floppy, greased sogged fries. Very underwhelmed.
Now, I gave it another chance. This time, the burger and fries. I walked in and it seemed they calmed down the Hell’s Kitchen antics and it was smooth sailing with a few customers ahead of me. Got my burger and fries, and the same thing. The beef was brutally dry and over cooked. Like hockey puck bad. I’m not sure if they are par-​grilling their burgers and letting them sit for longer than they should, but there was absolutely no moisture. The fries were a little better than before, but still, crank up the fryer.
I’m holding out hope that they will eventually get into some kind of groove, but in a city full of beef stands, you’ll sink fast if there is nothing that separates you from the rest.
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1÷19÷12 Update: Okay, seriously, I just walked by and one of the dudes was wearing a chef’s coat, cross armed, watching the TV with the Chef de Frites.
Take it down a notch, guys.

As a resident of Logan Square, I’ve always been wanting for a place to conveniently get some good old fashioned greasy fast food. Until now, my only real option has been trekking it out to Niko’s on Elston, or succumbing to going to the McDonald’s on Milwaukee, which is pretty notoriously subpar. So, when my roommate told me of a place just across the street from that McDonald’s, I had to try it out. In one week, I’ve tried their hot dog, Italian beef and quarter pound burger, and I can say without a doubt that this is one of the best places in the area to go for food of this kind. Their Italian beef was juicy with multiple types of peppers on top, their hot dog was as Chicago as it gets, and their burgers were grilled to perfection with notably fresh ingredients on top, not to mention their fries, which are deliciously salty.
If that wasn’t good enough, the prices here are incredible. You can get a Chicago hot dog with fries for just $ 2.50. That’s less than some downtown dog carts charge for just the dog. The restaurant is very clean as well, with nice décor and a plasma screen TV. It isn’t open 24 hours, but on Fridays and Saturday’s it’s open until midnight, which is the next best thing. It’s also conveniently located really close to the Logan Theatre. Once that reopens, Mr. G’s Beef will make for a great next-​stop for people getting out of a movie, I’m sure.
Bottom line: Try this place out. They’re still getting their bearings, so the process isn’t quite as quick as it will be eventually (though considering I’ve had to wait for 20 minutes for food at the McDonald’s next door and that place has been open for God knows how long), but the wait is well worth the quality and value. Highly, highly recommended.