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Simple setting with bare tables for breakfast bowls served all day, lumpia, empanadas & rice dishes.

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#3 of 6 Filipino restaurants in Chicago

LocalGuideWorld score: 4.39

2.5 km from the center of Chicago

Rating breakdown

  • 5 ★71%
  • 4 ★13%
  • 3 ★7%
  • 2 ★3%
  • 1 ★6%
4712 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60625, United States
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Quick facts

What is the rating of SUBO Filipino Kitchen?
SUBO Filipino Kitchen is rated 4.4 out of 5 based on 223 reviews.
How does SUBO Filipino Kitchen rank in Chicago?
SUBO Filipino Kitchen is #3 of 6 Filipino restaurants in Chicago by LocalGuideWorld score (rating weighted by number of reviews).
Where is SUBO Filipino Kitchen located?
4712 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60625, United States — 2.5 km from the center of Chicago.
How can I contact SUBO Filipino Kitchen?
Phone: +1 773-478-2599 · Website: subo41.com
Lakota Reyna
Food is good, service had improved, but prices have gone up and portions gotten smaller.
That's not good. I get the rise in prices, but you don't take away in portions. That's a rip off.
Of course owner is going to defend the business in refuting reviews, but reviews are made in customer experiences. Portions here are in fact smaller for the price rise. How many reviews stating the same do you need to realize that?
Joseph Perez
Food is great, but unfortunately they recently decided to downgrade and change their to-go boxes. If you order delivery, what was once a plastic container is now a very thin paper box. I am not sure if these containers are used for all meals, but I always order the breakfast plates.

Combine this paper box with the long uber eats times, and you get your food in a box that is VERY soaked/soggy from the food’s moisture. If I were to make a recommendation, if the plastic boxes cannot make a return due to budgets, then styrofoam would be a much better alternative.

THE FOOD IS GREAT THOUGH, just a reminder.
Anna B
Food's flavor is fine. But the servings of the entrees are small. And there are no prices on the entrees, and when we asked the cashier what the entrees' costs were, she basically said it ranges from $12-$20, which is a pretty huge range! Here's a picture of the adobo and the sinigang. Tiny bowls.

UPDATE: Updating in response to the owner. Yes there’s a price for a combo meal, but it does not indicate that each entree is only 8 oz. Also, the middle menu board says there’s a different price if it’s 16 oz or 32 oz, but all of the prices are blank. This is the same comment made by someone else 4 months ago - and that person posted pictures. I’ll also note that the person who came in after us spoke with the cashier for about 5 minutes trying to get clarity on your prices. The cashier was nice enough, no rudeness or anything. But maybe you can simply update your menu to make the prices transparent.
Stevie X
- overpriced food with hidden fees.
- the portion of an entree is like a small plate.
- the menu does not clearly label the prices, and when i asked them to clarify the prices, the staff was rude and passive aggressive.
Melanie C
Great food. Ordered egg rolls ahead of time, then I ate there and the food was amazing !
Longsilog!🔥🔥
Michelle Greene
I had never had a bad experience with them before but the pancit really was horrible it was over cook an gummy.. an on top of that I couldn't get shrimp added to my noodles.. but the Adobo pork was delicious 😋...as usual..
Keishawna Miller
UPDATE: May 1
I ordered again for delivery. This time I added the BBQ chicken skewer to my regular order of lumpia and pancit. Again, wish the pancit had no lemon wedge because it makes things taste a bit sour. I should have probably called and asked them to omit it, but it didn’t occur to me. Also, I love cabbage in my pancit and Subo never has enough. It’s like cabbage scraps were just thrown in. I wish there was a side order of just steamed cabbage because I would order that to go with my pancit. The new item of the BBQ chicken skewer was super flavorful. I loved it, however, after I bit into it, I started ripping the chicken off the skewer with my fork. I found the chicken to need a bit more cooking for my liking. I thought it could’ve stayed cooking a couple more minutes for me. It still was a bit under/pink for me. All in all, good prices, good amount of food, I will continue to order.

I ordered thru grubhub. This was my first time trying this place. I had 1 order of pancit. 1 order of lumpia. The lumpia was pork, but it had an odd flavor. Not that it was bad. It was just different...not the typical flavor I’ve had in my pork lumpia. The pancit also was good. Al of the food arrived super hot and fresh. The pancit also had a different flavor to it, but that didn’t make it bad. The cabbage in the lumpia was my favorite, but to be fair, I also love cabbage. There was a lemon wedge in the pancit that gave a strong flavor and odor to the pancit that I could have done without. Overall, I would certainly try this place again.
Ryan Bautista
Priced very reasonably. Their breakfast (silog) bowls are $5.95 all day! At that price the bangus (milk fish) was smaller than expected. They did give a good amount of tocino. All the food we bought tasted very good.

It you are feeling brave, they even have chocolate meat (dinaguang). Cracked me up that's what they had it listed as.

We definitely will be going here again. If you live in the city, just take the brown line all the way to Kimball and Subo is across the street in a strip mall next to th laundry mat.

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