Dallas’s cousin Danny cooks at two of Executive Chef Shawn McClain’s Chicago restaurants, Green Zebra and Spring. Dallas and I have been to Spring and we’ve been to Custom House, which used to be under McClain’s umbrella, but we’d never been to Green Zebra. Danny invited us to come and eat brunch so we went on Sunday with his sister Cory and her husband Chris.

Dallas, Cory, Chris and I ordered a few things for the table and then the kitchen hooked us up with the rest. Everything was so delicious. Green Zebra is a vegetarian restaurant, but the way that these dishes came out, you never really even think about the meat being missing. My favorites were the chilaquiles, the blt, and the popover. This is everything we had:

• Cornbread Madelines
• Sticky Buns
• Coffee Cake
• Parmesan truffle frites
• Gingerbread hotcakes with kumquats
• Stuffed popover
• BLT (I think the “B” was brioche!)
• Chilaquiles
• Eggs Benedict
• Candied Kumquats

For a fine dining restaurant, I thought the prices were pretty good. I think an average entree was about $8 – $10. Cory and I had $8 bloody marys and Dallas and Cory had Domaine Dupage French Country Ale for $5 each. We’re gonna have to remember Green Zebra next time we’re thinking about where to go for brunch. I’d like to also someday go for dinner and see what that’s like.