A Superfan’s Dream Come True: Dinner at the Saved by the Bell Diner

Everyone here is just so darn happy. The women in their stonewashed jeans and scrunchies, the guys in their shocking greenish-yellow shirts and high-top sneakers. They’ve come in costume, and they’re all talking about their favorite characters or most memorable moments. As the early summer sun shifts to warm up our squares of concrete, the giddiness is obvious. Though now mostly in our 30s, our inner 12-year-old selves are squealing with joy in that way that only tweens can. Some of us have been waiting here for a while, all for the chance to step back into the early 90s sitcom Saved by the Bell at Chicago’s new pop-up restaurant Saved by the Max… read more >