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ALL BOTTLED UP: Vee-Vee's
The spot: It's Taste of Chicago time, but if you can't stand the idea of eating while balancing your beer on your paper plate-or if you want to get a real idea of what a Taste restaurant has to offer-visit Vee-Vee's African Restaurant. At the Taste, Vee-Vee's offers crowd-pleasers like jerk chicken and plantains-a little odd since the Edgewater locale focuses on the cuisine of Nigeria, not the Caribbean. The restaurant's decor is sparse, with mint-green walls covered in posters, but African immigrants and Edgewater denizens gather over various saucy options. Try dishes such as plantains and black-eyed peas with a choice of goat, chicken or fish stew ($8-$9); a soup of ground melon seeds and spices with pounded yams and a choice of meat ($9); and a dozen other tasty combos of rice, tomatoes, yams, plantains and meat.
The bottle: Despite signage touting "cocktails," Vee-Vee's is all BYOB. You could swing by Andersonville Discount Wine and Spirits (5201 N. Clark St. 773-769-0858) and pick up a six-bottle pack of Guinness ($8.99), a Nigerian favorite. But if you want an African beer, trek to Sam's Wine & Spirits (1720 North Marcey St. 312-664-4394) for Tusker Premium Lager ($2.99 for 500 milliliters), a pale Kenyan brew. --Allison Knab, metromix special contributor.
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