"Sure, Bucktown’s Le Bouchon is always packed for dinner and you often run the risk of getting jostled by a waiter or a neighboring diner. But it’s all part of this 30-year-old tiny French bistro’s charm and keeps people coming back. Well, that and all of their buttery escargot, cheese-loaded french onion soup, steak frites, and roast duck with spätzle. Throw in great wine, chummy servers that might invite you to their comedy show, and the possibility of befriending the same diner who jostled you, and it's easy to become one of those Le Bouchon lifers." - nick allen, john ringor, adrian kane