Mi Ciudad Restaurant

The food was well prepare and delicious. So far the best Ecuadorian restaurant we’ve been to. I recommend this place! My husband approve and he’s from the mother land of Ecuador.

Décor isn’t much, but the food was outstanding. The salsa is really, really good, plantains were outstanding, and the chicken quite literally fell off the bone. I’ve been remiss is not going sooner but I’ll surely be back.

What great gem! This place is fantastic. The food is great for the price and the service is wonderful.

Came today (Saturday) for the Mexico vs Ecuador game, it was a bit busy. Service was good and food was good. Definetly will be coming back!
Try the cheese empanadas. Yumm!

I don’t understand why this place isn’t crowded all the time. The food is GREAT, affordable and always fresh.
I usually order the salmon diablo (not sure if that is the exact name but it is so spicy and DEELISH. It comes with rice, plantains and soup or salad. I usually get salad but the soup is good too. The salad that it comes with is just lettuce and tomato but seasoning makes it taste so good.
Try their shakes too. I normally order a strawberry shake. It is so refreshing not like your normal milkshake.
Anyways, check this place out if you want a good (home cooked like) meal. The people are very nice and friendly here. Very pleasant.
Food is always so fresh!

I’m still head over heels for this place. Went back last night with my husband and had the «guatita» and the Mi Cuidad special. They have really authentic and FRESH food. Everything made to order.
I’m not sure why this place is not busy during the week, we’re going back tonight.

Good food. Good drinks. Good service. The fried Calamari was delicious, made almost perfectly. The basket of bread and homeade. chip’s were a tastey treat. However their homemade salsa to die for. yum

I had lunch here today with a coworker. Their lunch specials are a great deal and they have healthy options. They start you off with chips and their delicious spicy AJI salsa. Before you have a meal they bring you a cup of the soup of the day (today their soup was a barley soup/​tasty as well). I ordered the grilled chicken salad; it was fresh and scrumptious. My friend ordered tilapia with white rice and grilled vegetables, which was also a great choice. To drink my friend ordered a shake made with TOMATE DE ARBOL (made with milk); it was also worth trying. What made the meal even better for me was the wonderful customer service!

We came here on a random day. We are part Ecuadorean and wanted to try this place out. Great choice. What I really liked at this place was the owner, really nice accommodating guy. The food was also very delicious nice choice of food and good presentation. The walls are nicely decorated with everything Ecuador and of course soccer on tv. When my mom asked why no music, the owner ran to the back and played some for her. All in all would go again.

I used to work close to this place, and would come here for lunch regularly. Now that my office is not so close, i still bring friends here!
Art and pictures from Quito fill the place. It’s warm and welcoming, and often the owner himself is waiting on tables and making you feel at home. Full bar with wine, the only thing i dislike in the décor are the two TVs constantly going! But… at the same time, it helped keep the kids with my party, and with other groups at bay.
The hot salsa that comes with the bread and butter is addictive. I love the empanadas, the corncakes with cheese (i’m totally forgetting the name now), and ceviche. All solid appetizers. The steaks are reasonably prices and yummy and the soups great. We once ordered the Ecuadorian fried rice, which was just okay — that would be the only dish i would not order again.

I liked the service. I believe it was the owner who waited on us. The food was tasty and I enjoyed the hot drink canelaso.

Riquisimo!!!
We got so excited and we order so much food… That I now have left overs for days! The staff is friendly and we where even waited on by the owner himself! Todos eran muy amables!
The food was yummy and the portions are big. Prices are reasonable. Remember big portions. The empanadas where the only small items… Nonetheless they were soo so good! The Huminta al horno… was deli! Delicious!
Mi Cuidad also has a variety of Ecuadorian soda… Tropical Fresa is my favorite! My Caldo de Bola was amazingly fantastic and so was the Plato Criollo a little bit of everything equals yummyness.
I’m Bolivian and everything reminded me of our food. On my next trip to Chicago I’ll definitely be make a another stop!
Enjoy!

Some times in life you get more than what you paid for and I found dinner at Mi Ciudad was one of those times.
I was late (which never happens) so it was a late lunch/​early dinner, had the place to our selves.
My date was starving, the menu looked great and wanted to order everything on the menu.
We ended up having Passion fruit juice smoothie and Guanaban juice smoothie for our drinks and the Parrillada Ecuatoriana (Beef ribs, pork, Ecuadorian sausage, chicken, potato pancakes, fried pork, grilled sausage and shrimp) that was served on a small table top grill.
Loved the smoothies, dinner was enough for 3 and was excellent. My favorite the Ecuadorian sausage and meat was perfectly cooked and the Shrimp was just right.
Here’s the best part, we loved the owner more than anything else. He was so sweet, welcoming and realized it was a date and made sure he was seen but not heard.
The complimentary wine of our choice was a sweet touch and was very well received :-)
The beautiful room, reminded me of a neighborhood cantina, filled with handicrafts from Ecuador, helped us tune out the busy street and gave the feeling of a far away place.
I even loved the bathroom.
I know we will both return.

I will say my first impression was favorable. The restaurant looks well decorated and pleasant. The staff is polite and very sweet.
Unfortunately, the meal did not live up to the setting. The soup that was brought out for us was downright cold when it wasn’t meant to be. We ordered rice with seafood, which was pale and unappetizing. The clams were rubbery and didn’t taste very fresh. The combination of grilled meats was equally bad. The meat was just tough and I barely picked at it. By that point, I just couldn’t eat anymore and I am usually the person who will eat anything…
We all regretted eating there pretty quickly, which is sad because I always want to like small places like this. They have a nice setup, but they really need to pay attention to their food and perhaps, freshness? Was our food prepped too long in advanced? I don’t know, but the place was empty at peak time of the day on a weekend, so they need to take another look at what they are serving.

Hola! Este comida es tan saboroso!
I love this Ecuadorian Restaurant ! We had beef and cheese empanadas, salad with house vinaigrette, my friend ordered corvina, and I had Ecuadorian shrimp with plantains and rice, then for dessert we had figs and cheese. Everything we had was fresh, and delicious!

This is a case where I wish I a zero-​star review were possible, because I only want to give them the minimum-​plus-​one, and two is a bit too kind.
They get a zero/​the minimum for the food. Plus one because I ordered something I know I don’t like so I have to offer them the benefit of the doubt. The service was good — as I guess it should be in a place with zero other customers. He was watching Maury Povich when I arrived so I don’t think that in my case his attentive service can really earn extra stars.
What I «ate» was his recommendation — the goat. I said I wanted to try something typical/​authentic/​uniquely Ecuadorian. He said to get that. It was disgusting. I mean, I had to eat lunch again afterwords to get the taste out of my mouth. I usually don’t like goat but he said the sauce was good — the goat was probably the most overpoweringly «goaty» goat I have ever had, and that flavor annihilated any sauce or preparation they did to it. So many tiny bones and gristly bits it was just totally nasty. And salty — that was the one flavor that came out besides goat. It reminded me of this sheep intestines thing I got once in South Africa that made people at the table gag and plead with me to send it away after tasting it.
So I don’t know — maybe their other food is good but if they are willing to serve something as nasty as what I got, I have to assume you can find a better restaurant someplace else.

I went here with my brother and niece and nephew when they were in town a few weeks ago. The person who he was staying with, recommended the place. The owner (the older gentleman that will be waiting on you if you go for lunch) brought over is mothers/​grandmothers recipes from Ecuador. I had NEVER had Ecuadorian food before. If not for living in the suburbs, I would go there more often. As a matter of fact, I would pay the $ 5 for parking at the Kiss and Ride, and $ 5 for a CTA fair JUST to go there!
We had a salad, some meat (kind of tasted like beef steak to me… GOOD though) with rice dish that he recommended, And for dessert I had this corn fritter stuffed inside of a banana leaf thing. ALL of it was delicious. The service was attentive and the owner was an incredibly nice guy. I WILL be going back for sure!

I was excited to come in here because I’ve never had Ecuadorian food before. With the 80% off gift certificates from
, how could one resist? A different food experience while saving a good amount of money is always a plus.
I loved the bread and salsa that came as we were deciding to order. The salsa was creamy with onions and cilantro… it had a nice kick to it. That was my favorite part. It was so good that I was tempted to dig in and eat it with a spoon. The empanadas were warm, fluffy, and surprisingly good. However, it went downhill with the entrees. Salty and dry is pretty much the best way to explain it.
I don’t think I’ll be coming here again. On the upside, the service was attentive and sweet.

This Ecuadorian Restaurant has great service (our waitress was quick and super sweet)… unfortunately, their entrees aren’t half as good as their service.
The meal started off pretty promising … a little bread and an usual creamy salsa (sans tomatoes, heavy on the onions). Then we ordered some empanadas. These were different, in a good way; light, fluffy empanadas filled with cheese (crab for me) … delicious!
My friend ordered Marisocos Con Arroz (the seafood with rice) and I ordered the something Paradillas (basically a meat sampler plate with rice). I was excited to see so much food on my plate, but man … everything was overcooked and over salted. Even the plain white rice was too salty! The meats were tough and charred at times …
I would visit this restaurant again, but only for appetizers.
The prices were okay, but a little high considering the quality of food that was served. Sorry!

me, myself, and i’s review is outdated.
i went there on a whim one day because it was the closest and best sounding restaurant close to the antique store we were going to. it was mid afternoon and what seemed to be regular patrons sprinkled the place. an older, very nice gentleman (possibly owner) was our waiter and he was very accommodating. really good food, good prices, good staff. i thoroughly enjoyed this place.