Entries Tagged as 'Noble Square'

Seadog Sushi

June 19th, 2011 · No Comments

Remember Hilary’s Urban Eatery? HUE? That closed something like 6 years ago? I haven’t really kept track of what’s been in that space since then, but now it’s Seadog Sushi. Dallas, Kelly, Todd and I went a few weeks ago. It’s still a pretty space. The service was good, everyone was so nice. I thought the sushi was good. Not like amazing, but good. And maybe it was better than good, but we’d called 2-3 sushi restaurants before that and all were super packed. On a Sunday night too! So we were feeling a little let down that we didn’t get our first, second or third choices for dinner. Anyway, check out Sea Dog if you’re around Wicker Park or Noble Square, but I wouldn’t go way out of the way for it. Also, it’s BYO. We didn’t realize it until we sat down and asked for the drink menu. Oops.

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Renegade Holiday Craft Fair

December 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Jess and I went to the Renegade Holiday Craft Fair at the Pulaski Park field house. I’d only ever been to the summertime Renegade Craft Fair, which is held on Division Street. I didn’t get to go to that this summer, so I was excited to go to the holiday event.

Here’s the thing – It was snowing. A lot. And it was warm-ish so it was a sloppy mess. We drove around for 40 minutes looking for parking and realized that we made a grave error by not taking the train. So, yeh.. there’s no parking for the fair. Just street parking. And then you had to walk through the snowy mess. Finally, when we got in, the fair was SO packed. You could hardly get to the tables to see what was being displayed. Neither Jess or I ended up buying anything. So yeh.. Kind of disappointing.

As we were walking back to Jess’s car we saw Jake and Natalie, just for a second. Here’s Jake’s blog post on his experience at the fair. I agree, something needs to be done differently next year, for sure.

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Good Luck, Erika!

March 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Last Friday we took Erika out to English for her last day at Roundarch. It was a fun time talking to all my coworkers… about not work stuff.. Everyone was drinking these schmancy beers by St. Peter’s Brewery. They were delicious. I’m going to have to look for them at the liquor store next time. And they come in these old, 1800s, style bottles.

And this happened:

And that’s all I remember. Just kidding. T-Money DID buy a LOT of drinks, though.

The night actually went way, way, way later than I’d anticipated. Somehow I found myself at Arabia Hookah Lounge in Noble Square until 2 in the morning! I never smoked hookah before, so I thought I’d give it a try. I shared the mango flavor with Josh and Anjum and Marlena shared apple. I’m glad I tried it once, but my throat was so sore the day after. I’ll probably never do it again. Ugh! Fun night, though.

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Brunch at Green Zebra

January 5th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Brunching

January 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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Vella Cafe, Bucktown, Chicago

I hadn’t seen Cinnamon since September, so she and I met up on Sunday at Vella Cafe under the Western Blue Line stop. I’d been there one time before, but it was about a year ago. Happy to say the food was delicious and I really like the space. Not only is it conveniently located one train stop from my house, but it’s nice and open and bright inside. So bright that I felt like wearing sunglasses in my seat for a while and my photo is all harsh light. I had the sausage frittata panino with caramelized onions, ajvar mayo, butterkase cheese and smashers on the side. Cinnamon had a ham crepe that she was happy to report tasted as good as I thought it looked.

I was still getting over a bad cold and though I felt better, I was losing my voice. Cinnamon and I had a lot of catching up to do so by the end I was sounding pretty bad. Whatever. Worth it! Hopefully Cinnamon and I can get back on track and meet up monthly again.. and hopefully we can convince Erin to come back out with us next time.

On another note, it seems like I will go months without going out for brunch and then I’ll find myself brunching every day of a weekend. This weekend I also went with Dallas and Kristin for brunch at Flo on Saturday. I don’t know why I’d never been to Flo before – it’s not far from where I lived in East Ukrainian Village. I wasn’t in love with my food (breakfast burrito – onions, tomatoes, veggies were all raw inside and the cheese wasn’t melted) but Dallas and Kristin loved what they got. Dallas got the smoked turkey hash with potato, onion, green pepper, squash and smokey chipotle crema, grilled and topped with two poached eggs, served with fresh fruit and wheat toast. Kristin got brioche toast with grilled smoked turkey, and fresh spinach, topped w/ two poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and asiago cheese. I definitely was in love with the latte I ordered. Perfect amount of foam and soo tasty. And it felt great on my sore throat. I definitely do want to go back to Flo and try what Kristin ordered.

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