White Palace Grill – Chilaquiles with Yasir Qadhi
Background
I woke up expecting to have some delicious Belgian waffles or fruit pancakes or something at Sweet Maple Cafe, but ended up going Mexican at White Palace Grill. The story of how this happened is quite roundabout.
Shaykh Yasir Qadhi was in town for the weekend to speak at the American Oriental Society 218th Annual Call For Papers at the Renaissance Chicago. He had been attending the conference and its banquets, but wasn’t scheduled to speak until Monday morning. So Saturday, he called up Siraaj, who Emailed the Qabeelat Wasat volunteer team saying:
Ameer Qabeelat Wasat to wasat-leaders
Salaam alaykum,
Shaykh Yasir just called and said he would not be able to hang out tonight or tomorrow night. He is able to hang out for breakfast tomorrow, so whoever’s down for that, let me know, I’ll be heading out tomorrow to hang out with him, insha’Allah.
Siraaj
One sister from the team suggested we hit up Sweet Maple Cafe, a super busy and highly rated breakfast place by UIC on Taylor St. I had heard it’s awesome from lots of different sources but that it’s super packed on weekends. When I called they said they weren’t taking reservations for the time we were planning to get there, 11:00am. We decided let’s get there at 10:30AM or so and try to get in.
The whole crew of 10 showed up by 10:40AM and when we tried to get into the place, they said they had room for only 6 for now and the rest would have to wait. Bump that; AbdelRahman suggested why not go to White Palace Grill on Canal and Roosevelt by the new South Loop mall and Target. Some other brothers from UIC said it was solid, so we decided to go for it (after calling to see if they have availability!) Read more »