CHICAGO — Portillo’s is getting within the breakfast sport.
The Italian beef and scorching canine chain will debut its breakfast menu Tuesday at 5 Chicago-area Portillo’s, amongst them the South Loop retailer at 520 W. Taylor St., the corporate introduced Friday.
This can be a first foray into breakfast for Portillo’s, based in suburban Villa Park in 1963 — and it might or is probably not everlasting.
“We’re simply testing breakfast for the summer season, so don’t miss your probability to come back by and provides it a attempt!” reads the announcement on Portillo’s web site.
The restaurant chain teased the information in an April 2 Instagram submit that learn, “This isn’t an April Idiot’s joke.”
The breakfast menu sticks to basic morning fare, with a trio of breakfast sandwiches — Polish sausage, egg and cheese; pepper, egg and cheese; bacon, egg and cheese — hash brown bites and a “loaded breakfast scramble” with bacon and Portillo’s “tacky cheese sauce,” in line with the web site submit.
For followers of Portillo’s well-known chocolate cake, there’s an unique chocolate cake doughnut in partnership with Chicago’s Stan’s Donuts: a chocolate old style glazed in chocolate and drizzled with Portillo’s chocolate cake frosting.
One other native model, Metropolis Espresso, is offering its Skyway mix for warm and iced espresso drinks.
The breakfast menu — and solely the breakfast menu — might be accessible 6:30-10:30 a.m. The 4 different Portillo’s shops testing out the menu are in suburban Elmhurst, Niles, Shorewood and Tinley Park. An official finish date for the breakfast menu has not been introduced.
Take a look at the complete menu right here.
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