Gaijin

Okonomiyaki restaurant · West Town

"We love the savory pancakes at Gaijin, a small okonomiyaki-focused Japanese restaurant in the West Loop. Maybe because they remind us of a not-terrible version of what we drunkenly throw onto a skillet when we get home from Slippery Slope at 5am - pancake batter, eggs, bacon, noodles, and hot sauce. It can get pretty loud here, so only go if you’ve already got the headache part of the morning already taken care of." - josh barnett

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950 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607 Get directions

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