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Chicago's Extreme Meat Dishes, Revealed

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Caterpillar. Kangaroo. Fish heads. A bacon bomb. A plethora of organ meats. Chicago restaurants are serving them all—and more.

In honor of Eater's Five Days of Meat, here is an overview of some of the most extreme meat dishes on Chicago restaurant's menus. Take a gander below and plan your extreme meat crawl today.


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As part of the four-course, $140 Prix Fixe menu offered at L20, chef Matthew Kirkley deconstructs a pigeon - brain, claw and all.

Travelle

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As a part of the chef's table menu at Travelle, Tim Graham is whipping up an entire kid goat cooked and prepared three ways: goat ribs braised with goat milk and finished on the grill; whole roasted saddle; and leg studded with garlic and cooked en papillote.

Paddy Long's

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Pig out at Paddy Long's! With two complete sections of the menu devoted to bacon - bacon specialty appetizers and bacon specialty mains - this Lakeview beer and bacon pub will surely cure you of your craziest bacon cravings. Extreme bacon eaters be sure to check out the "Bacon Bomb Challenge."

Kaiser Tiger

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What could be better than bacon at Paddy Long's? More bacon at sister restaurant Kaiser Tiger! The "Bacon Bomb," for $70, lets meatheads indulge in 5 lbs. of spicy beef and pork sausage stuffed with pepper bacon, wrapped in a brown sugar bacon weave, and cooked for hours on the smoker. Bring your friends and come hungry.

Four Belly

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Get your Asian street food fix and eat insects without leaving Lakeview. At Four Belly, you can snack on fried caterpillar for just $4.

Mott Street

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At Mott Street, chef Edward Kim is pushing the boundaries of conventional cuts. Feed yourself and five friends the "Fish Head Feast" for $250. Have some crab brain fried rice while you're there.

Frontier

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Head to Frontier for the trifecta of the weirdest, craziest and meatiest things! Step outside your comfort zone and inside this carnivore utopia where alpaca sausage, elk shepherd's pie and alligator scallopini are all fair game. Whole animal service available for gutsy groups as well.

Usmania Fine Dining

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Make your way into West Rogers Park to check out the Indo-Pak cuisine at Usmania Fine Dining. For $15, go for the brain masala, a Pakistani delicacy of cooked goat brain, ginger, green pepper and cilantro. Or try the Paya for $11 instead: cow feet cooked with different spices.

Celeste

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Head over to this refined cocktail bar in River North for one of the meatiest dishes in town: lamb seven ways. Complete with lamb saddle, belly, sweetbread, loin, crumble, spring onion, saffron carrot puree and Scotch jus.

Little Goat

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Eat your meat and drink it too! For dessert, Stephanie Izard created quite one of the meatiest concoctions yet: a smoked pork and toffee crunch milkshake.

Lao Sze Chuan

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Get your organ meat on at Lao Sze Chuan. Whether stir-fried, home-style, boiled, or cooked table-side in a hot pot, go for one of Chef Tony Hu's creations: double fried spicy pork intestine, kung pao kidneys, or the "Chef's Special Dry Chili Pork Stomach," all for under $12.

Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar

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Check out the extreme selection of skewered meats sizzling atop the 600 degree open flame robata grill at Union Sushi and Barbecue Bar. Choose between Japanese curry beef tongue, garlic soy alligator and pineapple-flavored kangaroo, or have them all for under $17.

Ken Kee Restaurant

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With an entire section of the menu devoted to "Unique Chinese Food," this Chinatown staple makes it easy to venture out. Choose between a wide variety of deep fried pig parts for under $5 or go big with their $9.95 goose intestine special.

Chicago Chop House

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And the prize for the most expensive steak dish in Chicago goes to..."The Grand Cut Dry Aged Porterhouse" at Chicago Chop House. For $169, this hand-selected, succulent piece of prime beef could be all yours. Aged in-house in their very own aging box.

Hot Doug's

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No meaty list would be complete without the sausage superstore and encased meats emporium. Sometimes the game of the week special, the "mountain man" features elk, venison, antelope and buffalo in one tubular extravaganza.

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As part of the four-course, $140 Prix Fixe menu offered at L20, chef Matthew Kirkley deconstructs a pigeon - brain, claw and all.

Travelle

As a part of the chef's table menu at Travelle, Tim Graham is whipping up an entire kid goat cooked and prepared three ways: goat ribs braised with goat milk and finished on the grill; whole roasted saddle; and leg studded with garlic and cooked en papillote.

Paddy Long's

Pig out at Paddy Long's! With two complete sections of the menu devoted to bacon - bacon specialty appetizers and bacon specialty mains - this Lakeview beer and bacon pub will surely cure you of your craziest bacon cravings. Extreme bacon eaters be sure to check out the "Bacon Bomb Challenge."

Kaiser Tiger

What could be better than bacon at Paddy Long's? More bacon at sister restaurant Kaiser Tiger! The "Bacon Bomb," for $70, lets meatheads indulge in 5 lbs. of spicy beef and pork sausage stuffed with pepper bacon, wrapped in a brown sugar bacon weave, and cooked for hours on the smoker. Bring your friends and come hungry.

Four Belly

Get your Asian street food fix and eat insects without leaving Lakeview. At Four Belly, you can snack on fried caterpillar for just $4.

Mott Street

At Mott Street, chef Edward Kim is pushing the boundaries of conventional cuts. Feed yourself and five friends the "Fish Head Feast" for $250. Have some crab brain fried rice while you're there.

Frontier

Head to Frontier for the trifecta of the weirdest, craziest and meatiest things! Step outside your comfort zone and inside this carnivore utopia where alpaca sausage, elk shepherd's pie and alligator scallopini are all fair game. Whole animal service available for gutsy groups as well.

Usmania Fine Dining

Make your way into West Rogers Park to check out the Indo-Pak cuisine at Usmania Fine Dining. For $15, go for the brain masala, a Pakistani delicacy of cooked goat brain, ginger, green pepper and cilantro. Or try the Paya for $11 instead: cow feet cooked with different spices.

Celeste

Head over to this refined cocktail bar in River North for one of the meatiest dishes in town: lamb seven ways. Complete with lamb saddle, belly, sweetbread, loin, crumble, spring onion, saffron carrot puree and Scotch jus.

Little Goat

Eat your meat and drink it too! For dessert, Stephanie Izard created quite one of the meatiest concoctions yet: a smoked pork and toffee crunch milkshake.

Lao Sze Chuan

Get your organ meat on at Lao Sze Chuan. Whether stir-fried, home-style, boiled, or cooked table-side in a hot pot, go for one of Chef Tony Hu's creations: double fried spicy pork intestine, kung pao kidneys, or the "Chef's Special Dry Chili Pork Stomach," all for under $12.

Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar

Check out the extreme selection of skewered meats sizzling atop the 600 degree open flame robata grill at Union Sushi and Barbecue Bar. Choose between Japanese curry beef tongue, garlic soy alligator and pineapple-flavored kangaroo, or have them all for under $17.

Ken Kee Restaurant

With an entire section of the menu devoted to "Unique Chinese Food," this Chinatown staple makes it easy to venture out. Choose between a wide variety of deep fried pig parts for under $5 or go big with their $9.95 goose intestine special.

Chicago Chop House

And the prize for the most expensive steak dish in Chicago goes to..."The Grand Cut Dry Aged Porterhouse" at Chicago Chop House. For $169, this hand-selected, succulent piece of prime beef could be all yours. Aged in-house in their very own aging box.

Hot Doug's

No meaty list would be complete without the sausage superstore and encased meats emporium. Sometimes the game of the week special, the "mountain man" features elk, venison, antelope and buffalo in one tubular extravaganza.

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