Sweet Home Of: The Slinger at the Diner Grill
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North Center's all-night, train car-shaped Diner Grill serves up honking platter of food called the Slinger. Photo: Monica Eng/Axios
In my ongoing quest to eat at every restaurant in Chicago claiming to be the "home of" something, I recently followed reader Alena Antigua's advice to try the Slinger at the Diner Grill in North Center.
The dish: A huge pile of crispy hash browns topped with grilled onions, two cheeseburger patties, two over-easy eggs and three ladles of chili ($15.95).
- Watch it being made here.
The verdict: This St. Louis-born concoction warms the belly on a cold winter afternoon (and for many eaters at 4am), but it's not going to win any culinary prizes.
Speaking of prizes, diners who finish a whole Slinger get honored with a certificate on the wall immortalizing their gluttony forever.
Pro tip: My server recommended that next time I try the haystack (hash browns with biscuits and gravy), the chilaquiles or the burrito.
- And then there's the late-night menu Dick Burger, which apparently is a real thing!
Rating: 🏠 🏠🏠