K. For all its great food, Chicago is not a big deli town, which endears Eleven City Diner, an old-school deli and family restaurant in the South Loop, to the locals. You can get breakfast all day (bagel and lox, "hoppel poppel" scrambled eggs with salami, potatoes, onions and peppers), deli staples like matzoh-ball soup and pastrami and corned-beef sandwiches, diner options including burgers and soda-fountain floats and malts from the staff soda jerk. Breaking from the deli tradition, Eleven City sells beer and wine. In keeping with it there's an old-fashioned candy counter on your way out.
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