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Dining Room: Before & After

March 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments

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The little IKEA table that I bought when I moved to Chicago 5 years ago has served me well at my last two apartments. In each of those places I only had a small space for a dining area so my small table with 4 chairs was perfect. In our new condo we have much more space for a dining set. Since we want to be able to have everyone sit for dinner parties and host more poker parties, a new table and chairs were high on our priority list.

Both Kristin and Christina recommended World Market dining room sets to us. They said that they were stylish, well constructed, and reasonably priced. When we were looking at couches in Naperville we went to World Market and looked at dining room sets at World Market, but didn’t buy anything.

A week or two later Kristin offered to drive us out to Oak Brook to look at furniture. We went to Dania, West Elm, and then back to World Market. World Market definitely had the closest to what we were looking for in size and style. It was also the sturdiest and the most in our price range. We selected what we wanted and it was kind of a cluster running to a few different stores to get everything, but in the end we got 8 chairs for half off. We couldn’t transport the table so I ordered it online. World Market was having free shipping, so that wasn’t an issue, but because the table is so big and heavy they were charging $70 extra. I found a coupon code online for a percentage off and ended up knocking $85 off the price, so the $70 was not an issue any more.

When we got the table we put the leaf in it and had all 8 chairs around it, but it was a bit much for everyday. We took the leaf out and put 2 chairs to the side and I think that’s how we’ll keep it unless we have people over.

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If you are looking for a small table and 4 chairs and would like to buy my table in the “before” photo, email me. rachelle at rachelleb dot com. We’ll probably be putting it on Craigslist soon.

In Good Company

March 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments

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About a month ago I noticed I was getting referrals to my site from Glenn’s Diner. Glenn’s is a restaurant I really enjoy, but I didn’t know why I’d be getting hits from their site. Futher investigation revealled that I’m listed on their brag page, along with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Check, Please! and Chicago Magazine, to name a few. Flattering… now I need to figure out how to work this into a comp meal! Kidding!

If you haven’t been to Glenn’s, you should go. It’s a great casual seafood restaurant located at the Montrose Brown Line station. Every day they have 16 different kinds of seafood that are flown in fresh daily and they are always priced under $20. Dallas and I have recommended Glenn’s to everyone we know and have been there several times. Here are a few of our visits:

- When Cinnamon and Erin and I went for all-you-can-eat king crab legs (Tuesdays for $33.95)
- With Dallas, Jill, Brian and Kristin
- When Rob was in town to do the sailing Race to Mackinac with Killian we went along with Dallas, Liz and Christina

Dallas and I just watched the clip from when Glenn’s Diner was featured on Diners Drive-Ins, & Dives. Guy spent a lot of time with Executive Chef David Najman in the clip. When I met Cinnamon and Erin for dinner at Glenn’s I was really early so I sat at the bar and had a glass of wine. It was a bit of a wait to place my drink order because the restaurant was slammed. The guy that ended up serving me was Chef Najman. We chatted for quite some time. When Cinnamon and Erin arrived he got each of them a glass of wine as well. In the end we had to wait a little bit, not too long, for a table, and so Chef Najman didn’t charge us for our drinks. Totally unnecessary, but it was a nice touch. He also stopped by our table a couple times to make sure everything was good later on. So, as you can see, not only does Glenn’s have great food, but great service from the top down as well.