With hectic schedules that afford so little downtime, Chicago's chefs rarely get the chance to be patrons themselves. But when they do eat out, it's not always caviar and truffles.

"Don't let 'em kid you," said Jeremy Lycan, executive chef at Geneva's sophisticated 302 West. "We all like our cheap food. Our gyros, our taco stands and that sort of stuff."

Believe it. We polled chefs from high-end restaurants to find out where they'd eat on just $20--and, to even the score, asked chefs from budget-minded joints where they'd blow a $200 tab. Here's what they had to say:

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George Alpogianis, Kappy's Restaurant & Pancake House, Arlington Heights and Morton Grove, would go to Roditys and Artopolis Bakery Cafe & Agora

"Roditys is very similar to my mother's cooking, home-style Greek cooking. It's not geared toward the tourists. [After], I would go to Artopolis. It's almost like a Greek-American Corner Bakery-type place. We would go there for loukoumades, the Greek version of beignets. They're fried dough balls, you sprinkle on top of them honey, chopped walnuts and a little cinnamon, and you gotta wash it down with a frappe, an iced Greek instant coffee."

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