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I'll be at your window, baying and tearing at the turf.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be home before six, i guess.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have secured a hotel room; chicago couches are safe. However, I plan to secure delicious food and copious drinks during my short stay, so please to advise. I am staying at 521 North Rush Street--is that near anything cool?

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. It might be, but Rush Street is kind of Douchebag District, so I don't really ever go around there.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

commerce

― Jeff, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Viagra Triangle. Enjoy.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. Well, I'm happy to travel for food. Favorite downtown restaurants, anyone?

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that reminds me-- someone asked about that French Vietnamese place -- what's it called!?!? --and I have been there once with my mom for her b-day. It's DELISH and well-appointed. It's right there in that area.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Le Colonial

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's it. I had a very nice meal there with my mum.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hannah's Bretzel

― Jeff, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

2nd Hannah's Bretzels.

I hear that Ra (sushi) is good. It's right around there. Also Tsunami sushi. Go to Devon St. for Injun food. Bin 36 for wine and cheese (that was my dinner last night--6 different cheeses, yum! And the bartender said, "No tab. Happy Easter.")

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argyle for weird Vietnamese and Chinese.

I can't recommend a bar, really, since I like most bars.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I recommend a shower beer at your hotel. And a shower Diet Coke too.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Good restaurants north of the Loop, south of Gold Coast:

Emilio's Sol y Nieve, 215 E. Ohio (best tapas I've ever had)

Heaven on Seven on Rush, 600 N. Michigan (the Clark St. location was so-so, but I still have fond memories of a po'boy at this downtown spot 7 years ago)

Indian Garden, 247 E. Ontario (pricier than Devon St., but excellent)

Nacional 27, 325 W. Huron (delicious pan-Latin American)

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hema's Kitchen for Injun. Clark and Fullteron-ish.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was underwhelmed by that Heaven on Seven.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's a crap-on-the-walls wanna-be NO restaurant. Kind of touristy, kind of gimmicky. But I had OK food there.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to eat anywhere where people crap on the walls. GROSS.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I would very, very highly recommend Tizzi Melloul's on Grand and Wells--wonderful Morrocan food, great spices, beautiful restaurant. It's good if you want to treat yourself to a fancier dinner.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS SHE ASKED ABOUT DOWNTOWN RESTAURANTS.

I could write pages about restaurants outside an area that's usually a pain in the ass to get to.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Barf-on-the-walls kind of restaurants?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, tell him he missed the special touch.

that's "secret touching".

i'd forgotten about that. that's twice i've forgotten about that.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, but she also said she was willing to travel.

xpost.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should revive this: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=15315

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who is quincie?

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should revive this: [Removed Illegal Link]
― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

shit.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144132~Who-s-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf-Posters.jpg

Liz Taylor often reminds me of Robert Smith.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I love love love that woman's teeth. She didn't show them much, though. At least not in photos that I can find.

This is particularly fetching photo, but no teeth:
http://www.loti.com/articles/Montgomery_Clift_html_67db5285.jpg

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

*swoon*

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

I guess when you're that pretty you don't need to show teeth.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

She probably had some whacked out idea that she looked funny when she showed teeth or something.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop looking at her clavicle.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Martha: You never put any ice in my drink.
Why is that?

George: I always put ice in your drinks.
You eat it, that's all.

G: It's this habit you've got of chewing
on your ice cubes like a cocker spaniel.
You'll crack your big teeth.

M: Well, they're my big teeth.

G: Yeah, some of them, some of them.

M: I've got more teeth than you have.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

question:

til

till

or 'til?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

are you talking about soil or an abbreviation for "until"?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Really, though, it doesn't matter much because if it's a situation that is casual enough to abbreviate "until" no one is going to care if there is an apostrophe signaling abbreviation or not.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

byebye, don't hurt yourselves.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I generally feel like it's either "till" or "'til" but I think that "til" is also acceptable, I just don't like it.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.derekerdman.com/1/m.jpg

Sorry that it just seems that I only advertise things here, I very often lurk on the Chicago thread. I feel like we're all very good friends, but not in the "I'll call you if I have a flat tire in Brookfield" sense.

Thanks for your time.

― A Derek Erdman, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

You can call me if you have a flat tire in Brookfield. I don't know that I can do much about it, but you're welcome to call me if it happens.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

Great, I will! What about Naperville?

― A Derek Erdman, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

My absolute three favorite resturants in Chicago are:

Tank Noodle
Hannah's Bretzel
Bhabi's Kitchen

― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Frontera Grill is just a few blocks away from your hotel -- amazingly good Mexican and Mexican-inspired food from one of our many famous chefs. Not too expensive, either, though it does count as a night out.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

I just picked up that quincie is a girl. No, in that case, you can't sleep on my couch. My girlfriend would not like that. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Chipotle is divine.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Kevin when I saw you at the CoCoComa show a couple of weeks ago you probably said blood diamonds a half dozen times as we said our goodbyes.

I think the only restaurant I've been to in and around Rush St. is Rosebud on Rush. It was very good, solid Italian, not too expensive, but nothing you can't find in approx. 9,000,000 other restaurants in the world.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

They had a very good take on caprese utilizing fried eggplant, that was the only thing that really stood out about the place.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey and I had sushi from Ra on my roof once and it was good good good.

The Pump Room is now a great place for drinks; they redid the place a year or two ago, but it hasn't caught on with hipsters yet (I bet it will in the next year). They also have a striking and genius gal there named Rebekah who knows vino inside and out.

The Third Coast, at 1260 N. Dearborn, is relaxing, both for food and drinks; old-school coffeehouse style.

Chipotle's good.

The soaps next door, at Sabon, are swell, too.

And since you're here on a Monday/Tuesday, you should go to the top of the Cock (95th floor of the John Hancock tower), since there won't be any waiting.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

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