We live about 20 minutes from the Blackhawk. It is one of our favorite restaurants in the Chicago area: a special place. If you care about restaurants with "old Chicago tradition," Don Roth's Blackhawk is for you. Class carries over from the old, downtown Loop location. The steaks are great; drinks are stiff, and; the traditional "spinning salad bowl" preparation... more

Good steak. Decent price. more

was great food, not sure about the spinning salad more

We now have our favorite steakhouse! We live <5 minutes away from 2 other steakhouses, we went here (for the first time midJune 2007) though it is 15 miles away. The steaks were done perfectly, and sauces were housemade. But the best part was the service--we arrived at 8:30PM, not knowing the restaurant closes at 9PM. We closed the place... more

Very uneven. Wonderfully old-fashioned atmosphere and good food – not great, small portions, but good. Yet the service, surprisingly, was poor. Our waitress seemed to have somewhere else to be that we were keeping her from. She never explained the night's specials, showed no enthusiasm when doing the famous "spinning salad bowl" (which obviously bored her to tears), and brought... more