Like any good restaurant with a powerful cache, the exterior is ordinary and the interior quite marvelous. This is the match from the old Jacques French Restaurant in Chicago. (900 N. Michigan Blvd., to be exact.) It was still around in 1964 when Mob bosses had a sit-down to ease out Sam Giancana. But that was many years after the machbook swells floated through the aisles of the Jacques.

An interior shot can be seen here: nice. There was an outdoor section. Bring your mittens: