Augustina Taste of Chicago

Shucks, I just hate it when I’m right. I knew they’d be closed in less than a year. It’s a service industry, folks. When your service sucks, you won’t attract new clientele.

Was really good. Terrific atmosphere and food. Part inside dining and large outdoor dining. Today we drove by and they closed down :(Was just there last weekend. Will miss this place.

If you are going here to watch a sports game on the weekend you might want to reconsider. This place turns into more of a «nightclub» than it is a sports bar, which is pretty unusual given the crowd and the layout of the place. Drinks were ok, and fairly priced. Service was mediocre. Food was overpriced, and not good at all. I ordered the chicago dog, which came out cold, and with a side of about 12 fries. My friend ordered a bowl of soup which was $ 8, and looked like campbell’s poured into a bowl. The other unusual thing about this place is that the bathrooms were original to the gas station. You literally have to walk outside, around the corner, and be prepared to wait if its busy. I don’t understand why when they renovated the place they failed to update the restrooms to something more practical.

Wow, the other reviews said they took forever and their food was just okay. yup not the best prime example of chicago style food. But their service was just the worse. It took forever. We were the first people there for lunch on a week day. quite disappointing oh well, live and learn. At least they have outside seating and are dog friendly, so that’s a plus there.

Best Chicago deep dish pizza in town. All pizzas are good actually. After a movie night, or on the way to having a couple drinks on 5^th.

Food is ok however over priced for lunch.

This casual open air establishment is a great place to get a quick meal and a drink. The Vienna products alone are the reason to go. Pizza is perfect.
Ok maybe the organizational structure and the staff need work. But if your looking for a neighborhood joint… this is it.

I only had take-​out, but it seems like a great place, especially to go on a nice evening. Service was friendly and quick. I had an Italian sausage parmesan hot sandwich, which was quite tasty.

Much improved after a rough opening. This place has a lot of potential and a great location !!

I got there sometime after a recent patron left his handicap scooter, beach towel, and blue swim noodle parked at the curb next to the outside door to the bathroom. If that unusal roadster could brave a busy Davis Blvd to get here, I decided that I had to check it out too.
The Taste of Chicago turns out to be more like taking in a funky freeway/​lane-​changing auto pit than visiting a resto. It’ll make you think you are alongside the Dirty Dan, or on a blurred rip past ORD. So much for mood.
As for food, this former gas station is all gussied up with a few umbrella tables, and fuel islands converted to an open air bar. But the air from the open sides couldn’t flush the overpowering odor of disinfectant. I only saw one waitress outside, and she was equipped with wipes and a squeeze bottle instead of an order pad. She looked tright hrough me, but never lost her grip on the bottle with all the fumes.
I went inside the place and found that the tables were filled with pizza eaters and sandwich gobblers. But I couldn’t bear to be there another moment, let alone stay to eat, because the heat inside was well above the outdoor temp of 89.
Paver hot. Appealing, not.

Before leaving Naples to return back home to the east coast, I stopped here to take back a Chicago-​style deep dish pizza. Since I was SO disappointed from Aurelio’s on Saturday, I was hesitant to try this. But the verdict is in, and this place gets a thumbs up, z-​snap and a round da world!!!
Service was fast! I walked up to the counter at 2:00, ordered from a waitress, took a seat to wait and it was out in 20 minutes. The pizza guy covered my pizza with aluminum foil to help keep it warm, put it in a box and we put it inside my pizza carrier. This was just before 3:00. By 4:30, we were eating still warm pizza at home. Thanks a lot, guys! You’re getting all my business!

The only thing worse than the food is the service. It took ten minutes for a our drinks (a draft beer and a Margarita) to be served. The Entrée beat the drinks to the table. The salads came later (after the Entrée.)
I asked to talk to the manager, but all he could say was «how was the food?»
It was burnt, but it was better than the service.

Unique Atmosphere, courteous staff, GrEaT TaSting Beef!

Have eaten here twice and bot times with the same result– this place stinks!
My wife and i really, really hoped this place would be the one place here in east naples that was close with good food, good service and reasonable prices– a place we could come to late in the day when we were tired and hungry. Not even close.

My first visit was with some friends, I got some beer and wings. When they both came out the beer was warmer than the wings and the wings very very mediocre!
Wife and I went last night after long day looking to relax. Got a couple glasses of wine,(small glasses) and ordered some wings because we were pretty hungry. After 40 mins. waiting the wings came out warm/​not hot and were, again mediocre. 5 mins. later our entrée comes out as we are still eating our wings. My wife got the gyro and I the augostina chili dogs. The dogs were very cold and and I was so ticked off my wife went and got me 2 new dogs and 1 new one was cold and 1 was hot, it was pathetic!
After the write-​up in the paper we were expecting a really big improvement and a great place to eat. All my wife and I found was a place where the Naples drinkers can go and smoke all around you outside (as the inside is tiny), and you get crap service as you eat crap food. Go to Mel’s for a good chili dog. Come here if your homeless.

Well after lunch at Capt Marco’s, a quick jaunt to Home Depot, we popped in for a round of suds & maybe a chicago dog… I’ve read the reviews, but the building looked cool & unique here in Naples, looks like something you would see in Cali… good lookin dive this is! We sat outside & our bartender was horrible, but she eventually wandered off to get our drink orders. Beer was cold. We were too full from lunch to eat. The food that went by looked gigantic & the prices are good so maybe I’ll be back for the grub (I was told later that the pizza is amazing, we’ll see…)
Plus, the bathrooms are gas-​station outside-​the-​building bathrooms, so when I used it & a guy opened the door … everyone bored at the red light on Airport road got to see me standing at a urinal w/​my ‘wtf?’ face on… & that’s pretty awesome.
I’ll be back & update.

Can’t believe this place. Visiting from out of town, it looked cool. Food was decent. Not amazing, but decent. That’s the most positive thing about it though.
Just to warn you:
No hostess. They seated us but after about 15 minutes we had to track down a waitress for attention.
Ordered drinks. They took about 10 minutes. No straws. Asked for those and the waitress brought them in her hand, with no wrappers. Oh, and the waitress forgot my drink.
Mind you, we had two two year old with us. They were getting squirmy at this point.
More waiting. At a half hour, the waitress told us they were out of one of the items we ordered. ordered another burger instead.
After 45 minutes of being there most of our food came. All the orders were wrong and items were missing. The one that was correct was a hot dog. It was cold and the bun was a little stale. The worst was my little boys mac and cheese. It was spaghetti noodles with cheese (?!). Our friends little girl got a corn dog. 45 minutes for a corn dog on a plate? They were both missing the fries too.
The replacement order didn’t come for another 20 minutes.. . for a burger.
When we asked to talk to the manager the waitress rolled her eyes and said «of course you do.»
Wow.
Seriously avoid this place. Almost every order was wrong and were there for over an hour, most of the time without our food. Not an apology from the waitress though the manager did comp the food.
Also, I’ve worked as a waiter in the past and I know it’s a tough gig. They were not that slammed. I’d avoid this place unless they get their act together.

The taste of Chicago BLOWS! … And not in good way.
I was really excited for the new location to open up. So… we decided to scout out a new location for happy hour this past Friday. They have been open for at least a week. Many of our friends work at the county office down the street it seemed like a good location.
My first impression was I like the décor and miss Chicago. They really invested a bunch of moola to get the old gas station to look like a bar-​sterraunt. The seats were missing a foot rest and due to the slope of the grade some seats are lower and some were taller in relation to the bar. Some of the seats were missing foot rests, to get up, and sit.
The staff seemed too busy chit chatting with some of there friends and co workers, than taking care of the the customers with all the staff working, there should be no reason for anyone to have to wave for attention. The parking lot looks jammed but we went anyway.
They looked busy. It seems like the bartenders are slow and don’t get the basic clues. Like empty bottles or glasses at the end of the bar rail. implies I’m thirsty and may I have more. Which brings me to the next gripe. Although I’m not against a fresh clean draft, there are a few of us who prefer bottles. They have a tiny bottle cooler like two dorm refrigerators. And they ran out of cold beer? I am surprised that even I have larger coolers for fish and drinks, On my small boat. I’m guessing that they do warm storage of bottles and rotate them into a refrigerator cooler to chill without ice??? Bartender was not selling any bottles saying that his supply of cold beer was not ready (cold). When asked about talking to a manager the bartender said it will be a ONE hour wait??? As they are busy. Too busy to listen to the customer is never a good thing for any business. And suggesting a one hour wait is a good way to tell your customer to BLOW OFF. They replied WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? Alejandro suggested we wait an hour till we talk to Rick. He was not even there, because of his ill daughter. No Manager? On duty is lame!. So we paid our tab. To find cold beer. Just down the street.
If the owner gives a 5hiznit about his own business. Rick should ante up for for a ice trough and a few buckets of ice. Get staff training from experienced bartenders. Fix the bar stools. I realize its new but simple fixes can make a big difference. A nice gesture would be to offer a free draft while the beer was chilling and we would have stayed for another 3 more rounds. Don’t worry, I don’t hate Chicago or the taste of Chicago I want to return in a week or two, give it another try. I wish to see you again and see improvement, right now I’m sad to report I’m not impressed.
Drinks — 1
Service — 1
Management –1
Ambiance –2
Food — never had a chance to try.

They have just opened this week. IMO not a wise choice opening in the heart of season. Having just opened, I will be nice on this review.
To be nice, they need to work the opening kinks out.
I can not figure out what their concept is. Seems like they are trying to do too many things in such a little place. They have three tables outside on a patio. They have a dining room taken up by a huge counter/​exhibition cooking area. The bathrooms are on the OUTSIDE of building. Just like a gas station (property formerly was a gas station). Bar poorly stocked and even less trained.
I was going to be nice and not slam them too hard. Taking into account they just opened.
I will go back. I will give them a couple chances to get their act together.
Hopefully, they can do ok.
There are too many choices in Naples, so if you don’t have your act together, you will not be around too long.
Good luck to them.

Good stuff. They’ve got vienna beef hotdogs, buns, and italian beef… but it’s definitely not as good as what you’d actually get in Chicago. The food gets cold really quick… and the buns seemed a little stale. A nice side of the road stop in Naples.

Chicago dog with sports peppers. Beef sandwich with juice.
Amazing. Eat them both.