Chicago Sun-Times writer Dave Hoekstra, a longtime supporter of Route 66, tells about some of the Mother Road’s favorite dining haunts from Chicago to St. Louis.
Hoekstra focuses first on Scotty’s Route 66 Restaurant and Bar in Hamel, Ill. But he also gives detailed shout-outs to Lou Mitchell’s in Chicago, Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket in Willowbrook, the Old Log Cabin in Pontiac, the Ariston Cafe in Litchfield, and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard in St. Louis.
It’s an exemplary article about these Route 66 haunts’ food and history. Go read it.