yeah!
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm not sure when you're getting in or where you're staying or any of that, but keep in mind that SmartBar is fairly close to the Addison el stop on the Red Line, so you may have more options that way.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Food-wise, one of my favorite moderate-priced dinner places in Chicago is Deleece, on Southport just north of Irving Park. And just a couple blocks south of that is the historic Music Box movie theater, which often has exclusives on good indie fare.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)
Uncle fun is a great, weird toy/pop culture yard sale store, and delilah's is one of the greatest bars i've ever been to...
― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Whoah Jaymc I was about to go all Zell Miller on you and then I realized I was confused. Cause the two Ethiopian restaurants right up there are Addis Abeba (which I love) and Ethio Village (which I sort of really don't); Mama Desta's, which I'm pretty down with, is a little south, though yeah, within that "six blocks south" range. Anyway I personally recommend Addis Abeba of the three of them, though not incredibly strongly over Mama Desta.
There are also plenty of reasonable bars in the area. The ones along Clark right by Wrigley are, of course, not the ones I have in mind, though there is a sports bar there that's okay if you like throwing darts. (And Sportscorner on the other side of Wrigley has that network trivia stuff, I'm totally down with that.) But yeah, there are perfectly good bars within walking or cabbing distance, lots of them. Sheffield's was always pretty alright, no? And Delilah's, yeah.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)
To be honest, Nabisco, I've only eaten at both Mama Desta's and Addis Abeba once, and while I thought Mama Desta's was pretty good, I didn't really like Addis Abeba much at all. I don't remember why, though.
I haven't been to Ethio Village, but my favorite Ethiopian restaurant in the city is Ras Dashen, in Edgewater.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
The Baha'i Temple is by an ex's house-I loved to look at it when when drove by.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)
And Reza's ain't bad, but it's a risk. If you order the wrong thing, you could end up with a $20 plate that contains nothing more than a pound of dill rice and some bland hamburger meat.
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Reza's has this gigantic vegetarian plate that's pretty good, but you can't eat it all.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I love their pita bread and their hummus.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
See... full disclosure... I'm only maintaining that Reza's is good because I hear that from everyone I talk to about it, and so I blame myself when I go there and it's mediocre and disappointing and kinda nasty. I must have ordered the wrong thing, right? But speaking honestly -- and feel free to argue with me -- I've never eaten anything there that was very good at all. Dill rice and hamburger meat is what it's all about. And some kinda slimy dumpling things. If that's Persian food, I'm rather glad that Persia no longer exists. But I do *love* middle eastern food, and love Andie's, and eat at Taste of Lebanon at least once a week. Kick-ass hummus, I tell you.
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)
best middle eastern food is at pita inn, obv.
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 30 September 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)
met a nice fella working at one of the boutiques and he told me that morgan geist and daniel wang are playing at smart bar on saturday, so im gonna check that out, i think.
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 30 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― mck (mck), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
Are there many?
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― mck (mck), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― k3rry (dymaxia), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm taking my wife to Chicago for her birthday/graduation in December. We're going to be there for five days during the week, not over a weekend. We lived there for a few years and still visit occasionally on weekends, so we know the neighborhoods. But since we have more time and the rest of the city will be open as usual, i want to find something different for us to do. I think we're going to take cooking lessons one day (1/2 day) and maybe the Gene Siskel Film Center might have something going on ... I'm looking for more suggestions - behind the scenes tour of something that isn't touristy? Smaller museums? (International Museum of Surgical Science - has anyone been there?)
(Not looking for shopping, restaurants, bus tours, Frank Lloyd Wright, panoramic views, ...)
hmm?
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago)
Have you been to the Museum of Holography? I haven't. How about any of the trash talk shows? The Prairie Avenue stuff in the South Loop?
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)
Are there any good factory tours of some interesting process? Like, not Vienna Beef, nor a brewery (although she loves Goose Island IPA, so maybe) ..
I've heard the arch tours are good (some of them.) It's a maybe, although in December, it may not be...
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
the vienna beef factory has a STORE.
the inside of the temple is pretty cool.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago)
Why?
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago)
because most of the candy factories are gone? damn you dayton hudson.
jordan, just in case the dave matthews band are in town.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago)
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Prancing Animals (coco), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago)
NOT A WORD, PROBABLY.
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago)
And perhaps catch a movie at the music box.
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)
Bistro Zinc is nice and not too expensive. Better luck for you if you go before 7pm.
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago)
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago)
Puppet Parlor, lookin good...
Ooh, I hate to wait - although it's not as bad if I'm waiting for a unique restaurant.. I don't get the point of people waiting 1.5 hours for the Cheesecake Factory (not Eli's, but the dull restaurant.) But late breakfast and 2:00 lunch might be a plan.
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago)