Uncle Mike's Place

Worth the wait, though it took way longer than estimated to get seated (over an hour when the estimate was 30 minutes). The breakfast was very very good, homey feeling with great savory flavor and well grilled meat. Every ingredient was quality and well treated and the pork was excellent (bangus was quite good as well). In my humble opinion it’s much better than Kasamas breakfast, which I found to be too sweet. That was not an issue here. Once inside the service was pretty good as well. A big pricey but where isn’t these days.

Loved this place! You just know it's authentic home cooking. It's homey and not much frills but the staff is friendly and the food is delicious. Once we sat down before we ordered anything they brought us water and 2 warm bowls of their rice porridge. I was already surprised because I was planning on ordering some. It was delicious and perfect for the slightly chillier weather coming. I've never had rice porridge with lemon in it but this worked and I was about to ask for a second bowl before I realized I should probably order something first. The 2 of us shared a tocino breakfast (comes with 2 eggs and garlic rice) and a side of longanisa. Loved it. Can't go wrong with longanisa. This was more than enough food for the two of us. Garlic rice was awesome. It also comes with a small chocolate rice pudding. I'll def be back here if I'm in Chicago again!

It’s not typical to find many Filipino restaurants so it’s nice to have this downtown. The staff are very nice and doting. The atmosphere is nice and it’s a big place. Free street parking. I would say I would prefer to stick to the American menu here bc I hear good things about the food. As for the Filipino food menu…I had baby bangus fish (pacific milkfish) and garlic rice with eggs on top and chocolate pudding (I forget the actual name in Filipino) that comes with it for $14.95. Yes it was the smaller fish portion but there was so little fish that I sprinkled the lightly battered pieces on my rice like flavored garlic w fish rice. You get complimentary Lugaw which is rice porridge with a lemon embedded inside as soon as you sit down. My partner had Tocino (pork) w eggs and sides which he loved (I’m not a meat eater most of the time and I will eat fish so I will stick w non meat dishes which leaves vegetarians and vegans with few choices here). He loves it here as he loves pork dishes. So overall I would stick w the American breakfast or lunch food bc the choices for me were limited and the food portion for the fish was small. But I give the place 5 stars for having Filipino food choices for meat eaters and very nice staff and atmosphere. It’s a nice sit down experience.

This place is very highly regarded and a lot of my friends really like it. I’ve been here a few times and it’s good, but not the full 5 star from me when it comes to taste. I’ve had the steak, the pork chops and the longanisa breakfast and have liked the last one the most, the pork chops were actually not that great at all. I love the congee at the beginning and the cozy, breakfast atmosphere of the place. Generally, I believe there is a wait during weekend breakfast/brunch times but I’ve always gotten lucky.

Came here for breakfast after our waiter from another restaurant commended it. We were told that it used to be a strictly American breakfast diner until the owner married a Filipina. It was then that they started introducing Filipino dishes to the menu. Not sure how true that is lol. We loved what we ordered! Really authentic Filipino breakfast. Our group ordered 2 Big Bangus breakfast and 2 longanisa + tocino combos. The come with garlic rice and eggs, served the way you like them. The servings are pretty big, but the bangus (milkfish) was especially MASSIVE. They also serve the soup of the day for free so make sure you ask!

Tocino is the best sausage I’ve ever had. Very close to Taiwan sausage, sweet and more flavorful. The fish is a little bit fishy. Steak is good, especially at this price. The porridge is impressive and now I learned I can put lemon in porridge. The service is what you can get at this kind of little restaurant. I rather like this neat and no social talk service.