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Like any rational person, I'm a huge fan of nachos. As a mid-twenty-something, I'm bound by law to be a huge fan of bars and drinking establishments. In three-plus years of living in Chicago, I've noticed quite a few things, such as people here will always find any excuse to drink, the city finds the most inopportune times to do road construction, and getting anywhere typically takes a half hour even if your destination is right around the corner.

Among the things I've noticed is the phenomenon of bar nachos. Almost any bar, restaurant, or eating establishment has some form of nacho dish that is somewhere between grandiose and unexceptional. The nacho dish is one of the few constants across bars and restaurants of Chicago, the comparative benchmark on which one bar can be compared to another and all the others.

On the Blackhawk's Stanley Cup run last year, I visited many establishments taking in game after game, most of which involved lots of beer and nachos. Along this run the idea of creating a ratings system of nachos occurred to me and from this spark, the flame of this venture began to rage.

Follow along starting January 2016 as I tour the city, pinning nacho vs. nacho, restaurant vs. bar, bar vs. restaurant, neighborhood vs. neighborhood in the ultimate review of nacho dishes the Windy City has ever seen!