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.
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Cookshop, Chelsea, Manhattan
On Sunday Jess and I met up with Jeannette at Cookshop in Chelsea for brunch. We’d read on line that it was good and wanted to try it out. We had to wait 30-45 minutes to get in, which was ok because Jess and I were a little late anyway. Jeannette put our names on the list.
All three of us shared three brunch entrees plus the beignets for an appetizer.
Fresh ricotta beignets with apricot compote
Buttermilk Fried Baby Chicken with baby lettuce, shaved radish, ranch dressing & honey
Semolina-Raisin French Toast with vanilla-mascarpone cream, toasted almonds & dried apricots
Cookshop Scramble with 3 eggs, carmelized onions, creme fraiche, chives, buttermilk biscuit, & applewood smoked bacon
After brunch we went up to the AMC in Lincoln Square and saw the move Precious. Really brutal. Rough topics. But there is dark humor mixed in to break it up a bit. The movie is definitely draining though. You might experience an irrational need to cry when talking about something completely unrelated hours later. Or maybe that just happened to me. ha
Jeannette and I were at the Food Emporium before the movie I bought this water. We got snacks for the movie, but then no one ate them. Not that kind of movie.
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Logan Square, Chicago
Dallas and I were sitting by the open window at brunch one morning when we saw this car go by on Milwaukee Avenue.
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