Chicago 6ix Street Food Bar & Grill

10/06/2026

We been having fresh homemade pound cake and this week it’s Oreo pound cake.. 😋

10/06/2026

🌆 Chicago Lakefront

Where Chicago’s skyline meets the blue waters of Lake Michigan. 🌊🏙️
From Lincoln Park and Oak Street Beach to Navy Pier, Museum Campus, Soldier Field and Burnham Harbor — the Chicago Lakefront is full of iconic views. 🇺🇸✨

10/05/2026

🎃👻 IT’S SPOOKY SEASON! 👻🎃

Come join us for our Monthly Eat, Paint & Sip at Chicago 6ix! 🖌️🍷 Monday October 19th at 5pm.

This month, we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with some SPOOKY HALLOWEEN PAINTINGS! 🎃🕷️💀

🎨 $35 gets you in!
🍹 Drink specials
🍔 Food specials
🎃 Halloween-themed painting
💫Good vibes, good food & a whole lot of fun!

Grab your friends, bring your creativity, and come paint with us! You don’t have to be an artist — just come ready to have a good time! 🖌️🔥

📍 Chicago 6ix Street Food Bar & Grill
📅 This Month’s Paint & Sip

LET’S GET SPOOKY! 🎃👻🍷

Tag somebody you’re bringing! 👇🏾

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Let us introduce you all to The Jim Shoe, sometimes spelled Gym Shoe, this is one of Chicago's most unapologetically over the top sandwiches, and nobody has ever managed to pin down exactly where it came from, which somehow fits the sandwich itself perfectly. It's built from three separate meats, roast beef, corned beef, and Greek style gyro meat, all hard griddled together and piled onto a sub roll, then buried under lettuce, tomato, onions, cheese, giardiniera, mayo, and a tzatziki style sauce.

It's generally believed to have started somewhere on the South Side, likely born out of sandwich shops that happened to sell both Italian beef and gyros under one roof and figured out customers would be happy to get all of it at once. The name's origin is even murkier than the sandwich's birthplace. One popular, probably apocryphal story claims a very hungry late night customer told a sandwich maker to just throw everything onto the bread like it was a gym shoe, and the name stuck from there. Another theory floated by a South Side shop owner traces it instead to Pakistani immigrants from Karachi, though nobody treats either explanation as settled fact.

What is clear is that it's spread almost entirely through word of mouth and a handful of dedicated South Side spots, places like Petey's, Southtown Sub, and Stony Sub, long before it ever showed up on a menu anywhere north of downtown. It picked up real national attention once Anthony Bourdain featured it on his Chicago episode of No Reservations, introducing plenty of people outside the neighborhood to a sandwich that had already been a quiet South Side institution for years.

The Jim Shoe has started creeping into more upscale Chicago kitchens too, with chefs occasionally reinventing the components, swapping in slow cooked lamb shoulder for the gyro meat or giving the corned beef its own extended brine, while keeping the basic chaotic spirit of the original intact. For a sandwich nobody can definitively trace to one person, one shop, or even one explanation for its name, the Jim Shoe has earned its spot right alongside the Italian beef, the Chicago dog, and the Maxwell Street Polish as one of the city's genuinely homegrown culinary oddities, built entirely around the idea that more meat on one sandwich is never actually too much.

Is the coast ready for this? Let us know in the comments if we should bring this banger to the 6ix.

10/05/2026

The pizza puff's origin actually starts almost a century ago with Elisha Shabaz, an Iranian-Assyrian immigrant who bought a small company making Chicago style rolled tamales for pushcart vendors back in 1927. That company grew and eventually shortened its name to Iltaco, short for Illinois Tamale Company, a name that gives away absolutely nothing about the fried pizza snack the company is now actually known for.

The pizza puff itself didn't come along until decades later, invented in 1976 as Chicago's second major pizza wave was taking off and local hot dog stands wanted something handheld they could sell alongside the thin crust and stuffed pizza places suddenly booming across the city. Shabaz family members Warren and Edward took the same tortilla style dough Iltaco already used for its tamales and wrapped it around a spicy pizza flavored filling instead, essentially building a deep fried, personal sized calzone disguised as a convenience food.

What makes the pizza puff such a quietly specific Chicago thing is exactly where it lives on a menu. It almost never gets listed next to the actual pizzas or sandwiches at a hot dog stand, it sits over by the fries and onion rings as an afterthought side item, even though it's really a full meal unto itself. Iltaco still produces the overwhelming majority of pizza puffs sold around the city today out of its West Town facility, hand folding millions of them a year, and the product has stayed recognizable enough that Byron's Hot Dogs has kept it on the menu for more than forty years running.

Travel more than a short drive outside Chicago city limits and pizza puffs essentially disappear entirely, which is part of why so few people outside the area have ever heard of them despite the city's much louder reputation for deep dish and Italian beef. For lifelong Chicagoans, though, it's exactly the kind of food that barely needs explaining, a cheap, scalding hot, tortilla wrapped pocket of pizza filling that's been quietly sitting on hot dog stand menus since 1976, never trying to be anything fancier than a reliable late night snack built by a family that started out rolling tamales for pushcarts nearly a hundred years ago.

10/02/2026

Looking for a couple of part time cooks. Must be able to work in a fast paced kitchen. Must have reliable transportation. Must be teachable. One for a Gulfport location and one for an ocean springs location. Inbox me for more details.

10/02/2026

😂🌭 CHICAGO GOT RULES… AND WE DIDN’T MAKE THEM!

If you know, you KNOW! 🔥🏙️ From a properly dragged Chicago Dog to a messy Italian Beef, these aren’t just food rules — this is Chicago culture!

At Chicago 6ix Street Food, we bring that Chicago flavor straight to the Gulf Coast. 💯🔥

How many of these rules did you already know? 👀
And be honest… WHO PUTS KETCHUP ON A CHICAGO DOG?! 😂😂

Drop your Chicago food rule in the comments! 👇🏾

09/25/2026

🚨 WE’RE LIVE ON DOORDASH! 🚨🔥

Chicago 6ix Street Food is officially on DoorDash! 🎉

Don’t feel like leaving the house? We got you! 😎 Get your favorite Chicago classics with Southern flavor delivered straight to your door. 🍔🌭🍗🥩

📲 ORDER NOW ON DOORDASH!

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