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Article: El Gaucho steers diners toward non-beef dishes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 3, 1986
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EL GAUCHO Cuisine: Argentine. Address: 2856 N. Clark. Phone:
549-0707. Hours: Monday through Thursday, 5 p.m. to midnight;
Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday, 2 to 10 p.m. Prices:
appetizers, $1.75 to $5.95; entrees, $5.95 to $12.95; dessert, $2.
Dress: casual. Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club,
MasterCard, Visa. Reservations: taken. Parking: street. Rating:
1/2 An Argentine restaurant would be expected to serve a lot of
beef, Argentina being the world's largest beef-producing nation. But
there is more.
A lesser-known fact, perhaps, is that the Argentine population
is virtually all of Italian extraction, so therefore you should
expect dishes of that derivation ...