Tortas Frontera Pepito

If you took a quick gander at the sheeple herded in front of McDonald’s in O’Hare’s Terminal One, you couldn’t guess Rick Bayless was doing God’s work right next door. I showed up for a flight early last week, expecting Xoco-length lines at Tortas Frontera, his first quick-serve sandwich joint in the airport (the second recently opened in Terminal Three), but I breezed in and bellied up to the small bar in the rear for a couple tortas and some preflight medicative margaritas. These couldn’t possibly approach the quality of his River North tortas, could they?

Pretty damn close. This place should be mobbed.

Follow me on Twitter