"“I want to sleep with this under my pillow, ” is what we said halfway through the short rib and grits at Chesa’s. The gluten-free, Southern restaurant in Avondale serves the kind of food that makes us look forward to–or at least not hate—Chicago’s 30-degree days. It’s a beefy change of pace from shrimp, and after discovering how well cheesy grits incorporate with the pieces of meat, we don’t understand how every Southern restaurant doesn’t already have this combination on their menu." - adrian kane, john ringor