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Twice the Spice

WHATEVER STRUCTURE STOOD at 1742 West Division Street has been lost to time, replaced by the slender storefront that now occupies this address. But it must’ve been grand enough to have a sizable coach house out back. That back building, which predates the Great Chicago Fire, is where Zubair Mohajir has found a home for the Indian tasting-menu experience he started as a pop-up. Meanwhile, the storefront squeezes in tables for the pan-Asian street food he boxed for carryout through these last two difficult years.

Both places — the Coach House by Wazwan in

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