Entries Tagged as 'rob'

Roundarch Holiday Party

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

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Scott’s wife, Scott, Ashanth, Craig :: Griffin Lounge, River North, Chicago

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Anandi, Victor’s wife, Victor, Ronald :: Griffin Lounge, River North, Chicago

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Erika, Lindsey :: Griffin Lounge, River North, Chicago

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RJ, Rob, Adalie :: Griffin Lounge, River North, Chicago

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Founders Jeff and Geoff presenting an award to Aimee

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Dallas, Rachelle :: Griffin Lounge, River North, Chicago

Last year Dallas wasn’t able to attend the Roundarch holiday party because he was traveling for work. This year he was able to go and we had a great time. The event took place at the Griffin Lounge and reminded me of the Google holiday party a few years back at Manor. Those dance clubs in River North are all kind of similar. We rented the whole place out and had it til around 11, at which time the regulars started coming in and we decided to call it a night. I’d meant to take a lot of photos and only ended up with these random few. I guess I was having too good of a time socializing!

Also check out John’s photos of the holiday party.

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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.

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A Visit to the Mass Gen ER Before Heading Home

September 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The day after Rob and Colleen’s wedding we all got some free hotel breakfast and then started parting ways. We dropped Billy at the Portland airport where he was catching a flight to LA for business. The rest of us drove to Boston. Killian and Liz then rented their own car and continued on to see a friend in Connecticut and Liz’s brother in Brooklyn. Ging was working in Boston for a few days and took the T to meet some friends.

Dallas and I planned on having dinner with Ross, Matt and Molly and then catching our flight from Boston to Chicago. One little thing. When we got to Ross’s house in Beacon Hill he didn’t feel well. His shoulder hurt… like really bad. Turns out he’d dislocated it. He’d done it a few times in the past and is to the point where it comes out easy, I guess. We all walked him down to the emergency room at Mass General and sat there as long as we could with him. I’ll spare Ross the embarrassment of posting the photo I have of him in a wheelchair.

While waiting we looked at photo albums from Matt and Molly’s wedding, which we attended in Connecticut in June. Finally we had to leave to catch our flight. We stopped at Anna’s Taqueria, Dallas’ favorite, to grab food to eat at the airport and then went home.

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