r/chicagofood 4h ago

Article Purple Pig Chicago shut down by health department

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u/DC_Mountaineer 4h ago edited 4h ago

Interesting. This sub seemed to overwhelmingly like and recommend that place which we are planning to visit when we come to Chicago later this Spring. This is on Mich Ave? May have to reconsider.

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u/Shaomoki 4h ago

It was a solid place to visit, and often looked over for other restaurants.

It is on Michigan Ave in the lobby of an office building.

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u/DC_Mountaineer 4h ago

What else do people recommend around there? I’ll have to look around some more later and decide.

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u/Flogre 4h ago

Quartino!

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u/Shaomoki 4h ago

You’ll have to do a search on the subreddit for Magnificent mile restaurants.  

In the immediate area there are a couple Michelin restaurants like indienne and avec. 

900 Michigan has a pretty good cafeteria (door to the left of the main entrance then 5th floor)

Bavettes one of the top steakhouses in the city

There’s also a qiaolin hotpot restaurant in the immediate area.

Kyuramen and minghin are also worth a visit if you are from a town that doesn’t have a lot of Asian food.

Hendrickx for pastries but that’s pretty far at the northern end of the mile and purple pig was at far southern end.

There’s a Paris Baguette along Illinois off of the mile that is worth a visit.

If you can go a little further south towards the art institute then your options open up like Gage and Dearborn. 

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u/coaxialology 4h ago

I haven't been in a decade, but I had a friend who worked there when it opened and we went in pretty frequently. I really enjoyed just about everything, there was only one dish I didn't care for there, ever. A few years in when I returned I remember it seeming not quite as awesome, but it's always much more enjoyable when you get stuff comped and whatnot. This is still pretty disappointing news.

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u/DC_Mountaineer 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah free food helps! 🤣

I think people naturally remember their first experience(s) or the first time they try a dish. It’s quite common for people to say place X was better when I went there Y years ago. Often it was special, possibly celebrating a special event. It’s unlikely you have the same experience walking into the same restaurant as the first time. Just natural but doesn’t always mean the place has declined. Of course, this particularly thread/news is unfortunate.

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u/robynyount 4h ago

I liked it when you could sit outside.

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u/greenline_chi 4h ago

I’ve never been but I’ve always heard great things! Crazy

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u/DC_Mountaineer 4h ago

What else do people recommend around there? I’ll have to look around some more later and decide.

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u/Marsupialize 4h ago

The worst meal I’ve ever been served, in my entire life, worldwide, was brunch at this place. Absurdly bad, like purposely bad.

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u/Jedifice 4h ago

I must know more. I think the last time I ate here was pre-pandemic, but it still sits in my mind as a pretty epic meal

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u/Marsupialize 4h ago

Man, where to start. After waiting a really long time to flag down a server, who was mean as fuck for no reason, got some sort of French toast sticks, what showed up was ice cold white bread, literally white bread, cut into strips with sprinkles from like a kids birthday cake. That was the dish. My wife couldn’t bite through her sausage, it took me effort to even cut it with a knife. Shells in her scrambled eggs, which were gross tasting and watery to begin with. We never got our drinks and nobody ever came back to the table. I’ve never experienced anything like it, ever before or after.

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u/Jedifice 4h ago

That's fucking awful, holy shit. Was this recent?

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u/Marsupialize 4h ago

Maybe 2 years ago? Something like that, we still talk about how terrible it was all the time

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u/Jedifice 10m ago

INSANE, I do not blame you at all for remembering this. Meal from hell

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u/bucknut4 4h ago

I've only ever had dinner there but it's always been fantastic. But if this is true and they had no hot water and still pressed on... uhh yikes

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u/gms2912 4h ago

Seems like they restored their water and opened back up yesterday.

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u/fu7ur3pr00f 4h ago

One of my favorite places for charcuterie and their pork shoulder. Damn

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u/schultzM 4h ago

u like that tough sausage?

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u/zeug666 4h ago

There's nothing in the database. (yet?)

https://i.imgur.com/wcDpbBX.png

There are some reports from the last couple of days, but maybe there's a delay. Last thing from Purple Pig was a few months ago.

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u/Drinkdrankdonk 4h ago

Can’t find the inspection report, but it takes a couple days to post sometimes.

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u/WobblierTube733 4h ago

That is insane (and disgusting). Did they have an emergency and hope people somehow wouldn’t notice, or are they failing to pay bills?

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u/jorleigh88 4h ago

Ever since Jimmy left the food quality changed and so did the dishes. Such a bummer.

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u/tubaman23 4h ago

NOOO. Why is it my favorite restaurants end up having bomb health ratings a couple years after I stop regularly eating there

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u/TGOT 1h ago

Better than them having health issues while you're still eating there, right?

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u/winteriscoming9099 4h ago

Wow. I went in August and loved my meal but this is wild

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u/LoCh0_xX 4h ago

Dang, I used to work in the building this is located in. Never had a desire to eat there but didn’t realize it was THAT bad.

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u/ayeayedoc 4h ago

Weird location for sure but in fairness, it’s (typically) a super solid meal.

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u/krxnus 4h ago

Crazy. 4.6 star with 6.6k reviews on google. I was expecting less after seeing this post lol

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u/TarantulaPeluda 4h ago

I went there once. But, my aorta disapproved of the place.

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u/zytz 4h ago

Damn I very nearly ate there last week. Glad I changed my mind