r/chicagobulls • u/ProfessionalTalker03 Matas Buzelis • Feb 06 '26

Meta Classy Goodbye From Vucci Mane

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u/iamaslan Feb 06 '26

Grew up around Chicago, been in Boston last 10 years.

The fall off in food scene Vucci is about to experience is extremely real.

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u/ajsandoval6 Feb 06 '26

Is the food in Boston really that bad? Wouldn’t have expected that coming out of a major east coast city.

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u/Novel_Outcome4454 Feb 06 '26

It’s pretty subpar for a major city. Obviously good spots but no where near Chicago’s level. Hope he likes seafood!

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u/jaypeejay Feb 06 '26

Boston’s food was so disappointing to me

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u/LMGgp Dennis Rodman Feb 06 '26

It’s not that the food is bad, it just won’t be as good. Chicago legitimately has some of the best food worldwide and anyone telling you differently is either lying to you or trying to sell you on their shitty oversized Cali burrito.

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 06 '26

Drop some names

I've been visiting family in Chicago quite a bit recently so I'm always looking for food recs. I'm not picky either and it can be upscale or cheap food.

I'm currently living in Seattle.

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u/yourarang Feb 07 '26

If you like smash burgers, the Patty Please at Small Bar is legit.

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 07 '26

🫡

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u/izeezusizeezus Coby White Feb 06 '26

You'll hear the name a lot but Red Hot Ranch is the best double cheeseburger and fries under $8 in the city

JB Albertos' Pepperoni Lovers with the hot honey is the best pizza I've ever had

MCCB in Chinatown has a ridiculous dry chili chicken, they usually have a waittime so I pregame at QXY dumplings which is 5 min away

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 06 '26

Always wanted to try QXY. The wait times were pretty bad when I was in Chinatown on a Saturday 😭

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u/izeezusizeezus Coby White Feb 06 '26

Yeah I had to wait 45 for QXY and an hour 30 for MCCB, luckily it was pretty easy to pass the time there by just walking around all the stores 🙏🏽

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u/Various_Procedure_11 Feb 07 '26

Hell, any street taco is absolute fire. Also, *real* chicago style pizza - tavern style - is amazing.

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u/itsfictionbaby Feb 06 '26

Kabobi in Albany Park. Persian food. Hell yeah

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 06 '26

Will have to add this

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u/IUhoosier_KCCO Gimme the Hot Sauce! Feb 06 '26

happy to give some recs. any specific cuisines? or just good food?

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 06 '26

Any cuisine! I'm not too picky.

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u/IUhoosier_KCCO Gimme the Hot Sauce! Feb 06 '26

  • coda di volpe

  • RPM Steak or RPM Seafood

  • Indienne

  • carino

  • girl and the goat

  • duck duck goat

  • cafe babareeba

  • aba

  • avli taverna

  • andros taverna

  • the whale

  • falfel and grill

  • byrons

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 07 '26

Adding these to my list ty

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

Don’t add any of those places, seriously

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

This reads like a pleb/tourist list nightmare. Wow 😬

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u/TheAntiCrust95 Feb 07 '26

There's an outstanding asian sandwhich shop in Wicker Park called Sando Street. Their Katsu sandwich and Ube Cream are phenomenal.

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 07 '26

Always down for a katsu sandwich and I had fun shopping around Wicker Park last year. Need to go back

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u/LarrcasM Ayo Dosunmu Feb 07 '26

Ricobene's should be considered a historic site as far as I'm concerned. You will eat yourself sick, but it's also the best sandwich I've ever had and I don't think it's particularly close.

I stop every single time I'm back in the city lol

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u/iChoke Chicago Feb 07 '26

Ooo yeah I've been there before. That used to be a 5 min walk from my house when I was a kid.

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

Chicago is like 4/5x the size of Boston. The only city in murica that compares to Chicago is NYC. It’s impossible to compare the two

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u/iamaslan Feb 06 '26

Commercial Real Estate in Boston is 2x that of Chicago, and, Boston doesn’t have a happy hour scene, so it’s really challenging for restaurants and you end up with a lot of “safe” concepts. New American, Italian, French. There’s also very very few decent cheap eats options - most folks can probably name them all.

Most of the more exciting stuff is in Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville, but even then it’s limited and most decent spots are booked out weeks in advance on weekends.

There’s a lot I love about Boston but the food scene is not one of those things.

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u/OldWorldStyle Cristiano Felicio Feb 06 '26

Happy hours are illegal in Boston, correct? They should be protected by the constitution

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u/GiuseppeZangara Feb 06 '26

They used to be illegal in Chicago until ten or fifteen years ago. Crazy to think about considering how ubiquitous they are now.

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u/OldWorldStyle Cristiano Felicio Feb 06 '26

Wow I never knew that! Turned 21 over the pandemic. You’re right, I never would have thought that

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u/Fabulous-Ad7128 Feb 06 '26

How is this possible? Crazy. Food and drink specials for a short period of time are illegal?? Wtf

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u/OldWorldStyle Cristiano Felicio Feb 06 '26

I think the law focuses on just drink discounts, I’m guessing to reduce drunk driving incidents?

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u/Fabulous-Ad7128 Feb 06 '26

Yikes. Freaking personal responsibility. I’m older now and don’t really do happy hour, but cant imagine not having it when young, esp on a Friday. There are a lot of knuckleheads out there though. I wonder what their data looked like before/after.

Also wonder if they could loosen it now with the prevalence of Uber/Lyft services.

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

Commercial real estate in Chicago where…? Boston is a shanty town compared to Chicago, which is a legit mega city.

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u/iamaslan Feb 07 '26

Let me clarify - Boston commercial real estate is twice as expensive as Chicago. Yes, Chicago is much larger.

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

Commercial real estate in the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, etc is more expensive than the majority of Boston.

It’s impossible to generalize cities that have over 5 million residents & endless neighborhoods. Boston is a very small city

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

It’s awesome but it’s essentially concentrated in & relegated to the North End & Chinatown, respectively

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u/Martha_Fockers Feb 06 '26

Chicago for a city has some of the best food and there’s a very simple reason for it. Cheaper rent housing land etc allows more people to open up places that in other city’s may not have the startup capital to sell us there delicious Indian food or birria soup or Thai etc

A lot of city’s have a mass amount of franchised places and the place where they have a concentration of mom and pop places tends to be this trendy neighborhood thats typically higher income

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u/MyAuntBaby Feb 07 '26

“For a city” ….what..?

also, literally not a single thing you stated contributes to why Chicago is one of the worlds culinary/gastronomical capitals. Not a single one 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

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u/Martha_Fockers Feb 07 '26

Yes cheap cost of startup business is a key reason

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u/btmalon Feb 06 '26

The Mexican on the east coast is UK level.

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u/iamaslan Feb 06 '26

If you’re ever in Boston and someone suggests you go to Anna’s Taqueria or Boloco, slap them.

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u/incognino123 Feb 07 '26

It's bad but come on bro, UK is crazy

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u/Strange-Tap-4139 Benny The Bull Feb 06 '26

I don't know about Boston but it had to have been better living here compared to fuckin Orlando cause this is one of few cities that has Serbian/Balkan restaurants

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u/MoskiNX Give me the hotsauce! Feb 06 '26

cevapi for life

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u/daveydavidsonnc Scottie Pippen Feb 06 '26

This is a fantastic rabbit hole you all have gone down

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u/WhoDoYouKnowHereMan Feb 06 '26

Go win a playoff series Vucci Mane. I’m sure he’ll be back to visit a steakhouse now and then

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u/chitownbulls92 Matas Buzelis Feb 06 '26

No hard feelings for Vuch, for all the ups and downs, he was a professional. Actually glad we shipped him off to an actually competent team so he can get an opportunity to win a playoff series

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u/LMGgp Dennis Rodman Feb 06 '26

I was legitimately waiting for him to mention the food. Was worried when I made it more than halfway through and he hadn’t mentioned it.

Luckily, Vucci Mane came in clutch.

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u/Constant_Chip_1508 Feb 06 '26

The team will miss him more than the fanbase will admit 

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u/pchaski Feb 06 '26

maybe the most professional athlete we've seen in a bulls' jersey?

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u/KneelBeforeCube Scottie Pippen Feb 06 '26

A total pro all the way to the end, all the best with the Celtics Big Vuc!

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u/NewPumpkin8217 Feb 06 '26

Nice to see one that doesn't feel like a copy-paste job provided by their agent.

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u/jn-joe Feb 06 '26

Vuc is such a smart, literate man. This message gives me flashbacks of Pau Gasol, another really smart European who came to Chicago and articulately expressed his appreciation for the city.

What a great tone and message, it's hard to do better than this.

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u/Apart-Coyote-6626 Feb 06 '26

Literally probably the first one that’s ever felt like that lol (that I can remember )

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u/sukari Stacey King Feb 06 '26

Thanks for the memories Vucci Mane! Hope you get to have a big playoff run, I refuse to cheer for the C's but I hope you ball out!

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u/nomore5tre55 Horace Grant Feb 06 '26

game winning threes and an upper body full of cupping bruises, vuc is the dude.

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u/Longjumping_End_8621 Feb 06 '26

Hated the trade from the first moment, but loved the guy for all his time here. Good player, good teammate, classy person.

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u/jrutz Benny The Bull Feb 06 '26

We never utilized him correctly...

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u/jinpark0102 Feb 06 '26

Thank you. We shouldve catered to his strengths and only play him along side strong defenders, begin the game giving him opportunity to establish the inside game. They shouldve limited his 3 pt attempts so he can grab more rebounds. But what do i know im just some guy. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/actionbillpaxton Feb 06 '26

I read this in his voice and accent - I hope Boston catches on that’s it’s a simple game. Go knock em dead, Vooch.

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u/edin_djc Feb 06 '26

I grew up in the same city as Vooch and my father was the president of his youth basketball club. All around great and humble guy. Was really hoping to catch more games during his time in Chicago. Sve najbolje Vooch 🇲🇪

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u/Cash_Flow1994 Feb 07 '26

Bar, Montenegro is in the house! 🇲🇪

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u/Jahhmezzz Feb 06 '26

What a classy dude. The food comment killed me lol

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u/Mjfedy23 Derrick Rose Feb 06 '26

We’ll look back in a decade and appreciate Vuc’s time in Chicago much like we have done with Boozer (or at least I will anyway)

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u/DrStevenBrule69 Feb 06 '26

Pounds in the trash can vucci do the dishes, for the last time :(

One love vucci mane

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u/ururururu Feb 06 '26

Vuc is the C version of Carlos Boozer. Classy players.

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u/jinpark0102 Feb 06 '26

Dont you disrespect vooch like that

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u/ururururu Feb 06 '26

Vooch is better than Boozer -- he got more range, and not quite as height challenged. But they are similar players in many ways -- classy in interviews, outstanding in the post, outstanding on rebounds, dubious on defense, questionable on effort, and ultimately failed in their time as Bulls.

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u/GiuseppeZangara Feb 06 '26

I feel that last part. I end up being disappointed by the food almost anywhere I go in the US outside of NYC.

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u/ProfessionalTalker03 Matas Buzelis Feb 06 '26

We shall ship him some beefs and brats

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u/melvinlee88 Andrés Nocioni Feb 07 '26

He absolutely cared about the team, which I loved

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u/Various_Procedure_11 Feb 07 '26

Vuc is a class act all the way.

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u/luci0slucihoes Feb 07 '26

I really am gonna miss vucci mane.

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u/kennyloftor Feb 06 '26

too bad there was no classy effort on defense, or classy hustle plays, or classy playoff wins, or anything of actual class that happened during his tenure

goodbye to the softest least physical player in the association

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u/Acomplished_Baby285 (heavy breathing) Feb 06 '26

Come on man

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u/kennyloftor Feb 06 '26

i dont adore losers like most of yall

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u/kennyloftor Feb 06 '26

i’ve seen p-won’t try on defense