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University of Chicago Magazine
Cafe Borgia is far from a
detached fast-food dining experience. Open since 1986, the
restaurant serves dishes based on customer
feedback—favorites include the chicken vesuvio and the
tiramisu—and uses vegetables and herbs grown in plots out
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LAKE -
Lifestyle of Lake Michigan
Cafe Borgia's new outpost is a bold
upgrade from it's original locale in Lansing, IL. But owners
Mike Jess - he's also chef - and Karen Jess have kept the
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Elite
Longtime favorite Italian Bistro
migrates to new location in Munster.
For loyal customers of Cafe Borgia, months of anticipation
are finally over. Now it's time to eat!
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Northwest Indiana Business
After more than 20 years just across the Illinois state line
in Lansing, Cafe Borgia is drawing crowds at its new
location in Northwest Indiana.
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Bon Appetit
Our favorite
restaurant is close to home, in the small town of Lansing,
Illinois. It's called Cafe Borgia, and they offer an
incredible polenta appetizer topped with a creamy goat
cheese sauce. My husband and I were both raised in Italian
households and never tasted polenta like this.
Marguerite
Rebesco, Munster, Indiana
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Bon Appetit
Having
relatives who live near Lansing, Illinois, gives us a reason
to visit that part of the country---and after trying the
Veal with Gorgonzola sauce and red cabbage at Cafe Borgia,
we have one more reason to go.
Janice and
Paul Abrinko, San Francisco, California
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CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Café Borgia – 17923 Torrence, Lansing. Italian. This cozy
café is well worth the trip for the delightfully colorful
setting, the friendly staff, and especially for the
innovative, reasonably priced food. Start with lively
appetizers, such as squid stuffed with crumbled sausage and
parmesan, grilled eggplant with marinara, or broccoli and
roasted red peppers with a creamy garlic sauce. The simple
house salad is a good one – romaine, onions, and mushrooms
tossed with a spirited balsamic vinaigrette. Carefully
prepared pastas, available as entrees or in small portions,
include fieno paglia, a tangle of green and white angel hair
pasta in cream sauce stuffed with prosciutto, tomato,
mushrooms, and peas; aldente penne in a smooth procini
cream; rigatoni dotted with smoked salmon; rich fettuccine
carbonara; and special, such as fussili in a lemon cream
sauce with rosemary. Among the main courses; robust osso
bucco topped with squares of delicate polenta, crisp chicken
breast stuffed with four cheeses, and sautéed pork
tenderloin with black olives, eggplant and tomato. For
dessert; good cannoli or zucotto, a lovely concoction of
liqueur-soaked sponge cake and whipped cream laced with
hazelnuts, almonds and chocolate. Fine cappuccino and even
better choclacino. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner.
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Chicago
Murals of food and wines cover the walls at Café Borgia, a
no-reservations postage stamp that has prospered for 14
years in an improbable location.
It could hold its own anywhere with such appetizers
as barely crusted pan-fried scallops in tangy roasted-garlic
mayonnaise and bresaola, thin slices of salt-cured beef
mated with white-bean salad and black olives.
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Gourmet
Owners, Chef Mike Jesso and Hostess Karen Jesso, opened
cozy, casual, cosmopolitan Café Borgia in 1986 with the
philosophy, “The
customer is king.”
In the open kitchen, innovative Northern Italian
specialties are cooked to order at value prices—lively
appetizers, tasty pastas, robust entrees, delicious desserts
and a well-chosen wine list.
A main ingredient in Café Borgia’s success is the
staff-family who have been with them for years.
After a recent visit,
The New York Times
said “Service was so good we didn’t want to leave.”
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