Nachos @ Castaways North Avenue Beach Bar and Grill

Restaurant: Castaways North Avenue Beach Bar and Grill

Location: 1603 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, United States

Type: Nacho's Nachos

Price: $7.95

Ingredients: Piled high with spicy ground beef, cheese, refried beans, tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, black olives; served with sour cream and salsa on the side.

Rating: 3

Brief Description: On the menu Nacho's Nachos at Castaways sound super yummy, but on the table they're a different mess altogether. Piled high? Nope. Instead the chips are spread flat across the plate making them appear larger than what they really are. Cheese? Well if you consider cheese-flavored goo to be cheese, well then I guess it is cheese. The toppings? Well the only redeeming quality these nachos have is the nice mixture of chili and refried beans, which made them worth finishing. In the end, however, these sloppy stadium nachos are probably not worth your time.

Chilaquiles @ Kitsch'n Chicago

Restaurant: Kitsch'n Chicago

Location: 2005 West Roscoe Street, Chicago, United States

Type: Kitsch'n Chilaquiles

Price: $8.99

Ingredients: A spicy mix of eggs, fried tortillas, smokey chipotle salsa and pepper-jack cheese; served with apple-wood smoked bacon and Texas toast.

Rating: 9

Brief Description: On a recent trip to Chicago our host invited us to sample breakfast nachos. Our response: "Breakfast nachos! Is there such a thing?" And that is how Yummy Nachos discovered the wonderful world of Chilaquiles, a beautiful merger of nachos and eggs. Why this dish is not more common in NYC is beyond us, but now we are on the hunt down. We sampled an assortment of Chilaquiles in the Windy City and many of them tried too hard to be an egg-centric dish. Kitsch'n Chicago gets it right by making their chilaquiles more nacho-y. If there is any drawback, its that the chipotle salsa does not do much to add to the dish. It'd be great if you had the option of other toppings, such as a salsa cruda or a salsa verde.