We eat out several times a month. I can state beyond any doubt that our experience at Chicago Joe's was absolutely the WORST ever!\nWe dined early (5pm) and were the only customers in the restaurant when we arrived.\nThe waiter spent 99% of his time on the telephone. He even came to our table and took our order with the phone pressed to his ear! \nOur bottle of wine was brought to us already uncorked and tasted as though it was watered down. The waiter never returned during the meal to refill our glasses. I guess it's a \"do it yourself\" kind of place.\nTheir pasta fagoli soup was a joke! I admit it had good flavor, but it was lukewarm, at best. It was really a bean soup, with a few token pieces of pasta in it. We were told that the bread was in the oven. I joked that I hoped it came out hot, so we could put it in the soup to warm the soup! It did arrive long after the soup was totally  cold. The bread was too hot to even touch. It obviously was a frozen bread that they \"baked\" to order!\nThe waiter recommended to Cioppino. The seafood was ok, but the broth was greasy and watery. It was served with a little angel hair pasta in it, which was grossly overcooked.\nMy friend had the Chicken Angelo. The chicken was overcooked.  The side of pasta served with it was the mystery of the night. It supposedly had a bolognese sauce. There were a few tiny stray pieces of meat in it. We each tasted it several times, trying to figure out what the very unusual flavor was in it. The only reasonable explanation I could come up with was that it was cooked in a pot that still had soap residue in it!\nI can't even imagine how they stay in business, unless whatever keeps their staff on the phone full time is a money maker.\nWe will not be back!!