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EEEEEEEEEEEEE sorry for the giant pics. it's time for a new thread anyway, i guess.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I like eating brunch, I just don't like the process of getting it.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sam & George's on 3000 N Lincoln was very good. Probably the best skillet I've had in the city.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

wait there are sausages made out of bacon???

― river wolf, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I had brunch at Flat Top last weekend, across from Schubas. Eggs, fresh veggies, potatoes, nan bread, etc. Good stuff.

I have a weird thing about wanting to be productive on the weekends when I get up; I don't really want to start my day at 3 p.m.

― Eazy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what about my p*rty?

JOHN I LOVE THE SONG ROSCOE A LOT TODAY.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I drank with lawyerz tonight.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

the trick with brunch is that you have to balance brunchy goodness with getting up early enough to avoid brunchy interminable waits. i rarely can combine the two, but when i do lula's is my favorite. because i can refresh myself with a mimosa while i endure the inevitable wait (see above: cannot wake up early enough to avoid lines). on other important matters: i don't wake up, shower and immediately dress on the weekends. but i do dress pretty much immediately after showering. and shoes. i must have shoes on before i feel awake.

― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

the key to brunch is mimosas and eggs.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

J****, Y*u will have p*rty.

Or Heartland! You live close to Heartland! Go there, buy a NYT, have a nice leisurely breakfast and coffee. Good cornbread.

"Leisurely" is the staff's middle name! Their other names are Slow, As, Fucking, and Hell.

The food is good (except those awful, awful "biscuits,") but fer realz, the service fucking sucks.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Biscuits"?

I'm trying to think of bad, complaint-worthy service I've had in this city, and I honestly can't. I don't really get the people who post on Metromix and are all like, "The service was terrible! I'm never eating here again!!!" Some places are quicker with your food than others, some might have a server who's new and doesn't understand the menu yet, but hey man, that's life. *I'm* the one who is setting foot in *their* restaurant, I don't expect to be treated like royalty just because I'm paying them money. Plus, some places just have bad days from time to time.

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

My doppleganger pitched a no-hitter last night.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

ESPN could have done better with this headline:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/465016991_db9254af5e.jpg?v=0

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

This is my favorite part:

The pitcher said his teammates tried to avoid him on the bench as the game progressed, following baseball tradition. But he went up to a couple of players in the dugout around the fifth inning and said, "You know I got a no-hitter going."

"People try to jinx and I was trying to jinx on myself," Buehrle said.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Good mornin'.

Hmmm... I love Victory's Banner. I don't know if my tolerance for the wait is built more on my patience or my love love love for their food.

You know what's fun and very unbrunchlike? Sunshine Grill over on Chicago. It's a little diner place. They also have a small back patio that's open in warm weather that makes you feel like you're eating in someone's backyard.

Usually, on the weekend, I'll make (or Nick will make) one breakfast at home, almost always muffins of some sort. Then the other morning, we go out to eat brunch. Personally, I love brunch a million times more than any dinner foods. Perhaps this relates to me being veggie, or perhaps it's just because I have a sweet tooth.

Oh, I love Flo too, but it's super noisy, so not good for any conversation.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been to Ann Sathers in a while. Would anyone be up for that? Or Clark's Diner? The only downside is that they are both pretty loud.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

But Lula is pretty amazing... Maybe I should just pick a place and time and see if anyone can make it?

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Meeting up with folks at Uncommon Ground was fun that time, even though the food wasn't that spectacular. It's nice to see you guys in the light of day for a change o' pace, as opposed to a dark bar.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah. We also met up at Heartland one morning.

Talkin' to myself about brrruuuunch... Talkin' to myself about bruuuunnncchhh....

My eyes shoot open by 8am usually on the weekend. I'm just too excited about free time to waste it sleepin'. I do, however, almost always end up taking a nap at some point in the day. I want to get out and about.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am an early bird, which I guess explains why I'm the only one posting on here at 7am, while a ton of people seem to post after midnight.

Ok, I guess that's a hint for me to go to work now.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Victory's Banner is one of those places where I really have to balance my patience with my desire for their food. I also have to have come out on the right side of the brunchy goodness/intolerable wait for that one since there's not much room to wait once you get there. But when all is right with the world, VB is spectacular.

Jesse, the last time we went to Heartland it was almost okay. We got a table before I could really get into any free radical newspapers. But then we had to give up on jelly, salsa, ketchup, and something we actually ordered because our server somehow never managed to come to our table again.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm awake! And now I'm hungry!

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't like Ann Sather. Their sticky buns are great, obv, but their savory brunch food is really just so so, I think.

Tweet Let's Eat is lovely for brunch.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, PF is hating on the new CoCoRosie album today. I quite like it.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard the new one, but their old stuff annoys the hell out of me.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

We've met up with you guys at Tweet Let's Eat. I liked it, though the neighborhood was kind of scary. Or maybe it was more sad than scary. We had to walk around about 3 or 4 crazies on the way back to the car, which was less than a block away.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's not scary, that's entertainment. I love the guy who does cigarette tricks.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Regarding the "biscuits": they are hard lumps of whole grain held together by plaster of paris. They are like my mom's biscuits, and that's not such a good thing.

As far as bad service, they are pretty consistently slow. It's funny when the service is so bad that you are glad when the worst thing that happened is that you don't get your jelly and ketchup.

I don't expect to be treated like royalty, and I recognize that every server and restaurant has off days (look what I do for a living!) but Heartland is consistantly unnaccountably sloooow. Their seating is jacked up (I hate waiting while there are open tables) and the servers seem paradoxically always in the weeds and lacking a sense of urgency.

But I will probably go back, but it falls on my list of places to frequent each time I visit.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I didn't get an xpost--

Sarah, there is a halfway house right across the street.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, where is your favorite place for brekkies/brunch?

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I made this vegetarian pho recipe last night. It was pretty good.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I usually go to Tweet.

A guy at work was telling me that he went to M. Henry and it was great (loooong wait, of course), but a woman at another table had a birthday and one of the women who worked there came out and sang really boisterously, whistled, and did a dance around the dining room!

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Orange too. Balsamic reduction belongs in all meals BECAUSE IT'S WONDERFUL.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been to orange before. It didn't get great reviews online.

One brunch spot I actually hated was Brett's in Roscoe. We only ate there once. They brought us this basket of SO much bread that, for the first time in my life, I was grossed out by bread.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven's Gate (VB) is really good too.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

One place Nick basically hates that I like is Milk & Honey. The staff are a bunch of biotches and you have to bus your own table and it's crowded as hell... BUT the food is good and they have patio tables. Also, it's close to our place.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I think we should descend on Victory's Banner at 10:30 on Sunday. Who is with me??

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there is a "10:30 AM" on Sundays.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I was waiting for you to say something genius like that. Yes, I would love to have brunch. Maybe even a late breakfast.

Jesse, get up and come with us, lazy.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say that it's the weekend and I shouldn't have to get up that early on my day off, but the opposite is true. I work weekends, so I am up late on Saturday, so I sleep in (11 or 12) on Sunday and then work in the evening.

Still, I might make it.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

The last, and only, time I was at Ann Sathers we had a waiter who would say he was going to go check on something and then never return. He'd come back to the table next to us, but then just wander away again without giving us any information. He also seemed disturbingly unconcerned about the nasty crustiness that we found on all five of our water glasses.

― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

ew. Is that the Belmont location, or the Andersonville? I've never had trouble at either, but that's no good at all.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Belmont location. Also, please make my officemate stop fighting/making up/doing household finances on the phone. We have an agreement to avoid personal calls in the office (she's on her cell phone)...but apparently she's chosen to define this as "any personal phone calls, excluding my girlfriend." Her stupid phone calls with her girlfriend are the reason I suggested the stupid rule.

― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Neutral.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want some fucking hash browns right fucking now.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?

Man, I have no idea. It's impossible to listen to it without thinking it's cheezy and cliche, but it's also impossible to tell if that's the song's fault.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Bleh. I'm going to be dozing off today, I just know it. Played a weird show last night at the K1net1c Pl@ygr0und -- we had a 10-minute set early in the evening and then a half-hour set at like midnight -- and then came home and typed up a few Kate Bush reviews and wrote a long e-mail to someone to whom I volunteered to give feedback re his EMP paper on the changing meaning and context of the song "Hallelujah." Crawled into bed at 2:30.

I'm glad that my late-night post didn't prove to be as contentious as I thought it might. I don't want to argue about restaurant service and customer expectations.

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

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