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have any of you guys been to native foods? it's a vegan restaurant chain and there's one in the loop on south clark. i'm intrigued, might check it out next time i have $$$ to eat out: http://nativefoods.com/

I haven't been, but a non-veg friend was talking up the one in Wicker Park. Sounded promising.

if i were in WP i'd probably eat somewhere else but for the loop it's exciting.

i just mean there are lots of interesting places with veggie options in WP, not so much downtown

i go to the loop 2-3x a year

maybe a few times more

i remember when i only went to the loop 2-3 times a year. i was so young then. so naive.

Let's line up by how many times you've been to the loop.

Thanks to school I pretty much live there.

Thanks to work I pretty much work there.

I've probably only ever been to the loop like a couple dozen times.

However, I have a workshop at the Harold Washington Library next Friday and I'm really excited! I will be able to ride the el to work and everything.

i used to work on jackson but that was nearly 6 years ago

SIX YEARS AGO ffs

my life: where is it going, where has it been

i literally lived in the loop, at the center of the coordinate system, when i lived in the dorms my first year of college

Those art institute kids that are in the dorm beside my work smoke a lot of cigarettes.

Columbia students smoke a lot of cigarettes. Actually, people in the South Loop in general smoke a lot of cigarettes.

I kind of wish I smoked a lot of cigarettes.

i was always bugged out that culinary students at CHIC (when i worked next door to CHIC) smoked so much - like don't you need those taste buds, dudes?

also did you know cigarettes cost like $8 a pack? i don't understand how anyone affords a serious smoking habit.

I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.

xp

i smoked a lot of cigarettes outside of my saic dorm. i was in the one by carson pirie-scott, though, not the fancy newer one across from the chicago theater. (xp i have no idea which one you work by)

when I started smoking circa 1992, cigarettes where $2.50 a pack. A GOLDEN AGE>

i used to work on jackson but that was nearly 6 years ago

I worked on Jackson 6+ yrs ago! Technically I've only ever worked in THE LOOP for about a year, cumulatively.

who r u 1staethyr?

the only time i smoked was when i lived in india and you could buy half-packs or even single cigarettes from the tobacco dudes

I smoked a lot when I was a line cook

well, not while working

I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.

Pretty OTM.

And I smoked a cigarette w/ the wine director at B!n 36. My former co-worker who used to work at B!n said that despite being a heavy smoker, but she had an incredible nose on her.

when i started smoking cigarettes were $3 a pack, but that was also in texas (where cigarettes are still pretty cheap)

xp i'm just a semi-lurker who live in chicago. i mostly read politics threads i guess, posted some on OWS thread

oh ok welcome!

Hi 1staethyr and welcome!

Hey, related to culinary students, I had dinner last week at the dining room at Kendall College. They have a weeknight prix-fixe 3-course dinner--it's like a restaurant, except the servers and everyone else is in class and being observed. Very good food, nice view of downtown.

Hi there! Xp

DUDES I worked on Jackson six years ago! Catty corner from Amanda, even.

Also: when I started smoking, I could afford a pack of cigarettes and a tank of gas w/ my $10/week school year allowance.

I just had a fancy lawyer lunch at Epic ending with maybe the best bread pudding I have ever eaten.

Not Epic Burger.

No. Epic, on Hubbard next to the terribly named Slurping Turtle.

that is a DISGUSTING name for an establishment

Yeah, I really hate it and don't understand how anybody thought it was a good idea.

clearly the people making decisions at that establishment cannot be trusted

He's a famous chef - Takashi Yagihashi.

Sapphic euphamism?

Hey, related to culinary students, I had dinner last week at the dining room at Kendall College. They have a weeknight prix-fixe 3-course dinner--it's like a restaurant, except the servers and everyone else is in class and being observed. Very good food, nice view of downtown.

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they have this at CHIC too, when i started working at the n@tional h3adache f0undation they took me there for lunch

late check on interest for pub(e) quiz:

1) Own Paradise Stereos 11 pts
2) Envied Alcohol 11 pts
3) Finish the Lyrics 14 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

i'm not making any promises but sarah's mom is supposed to be here tonight so i MIGHT be able to convince sarah to come, even though she hates trivia

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmeow.........

I can't tonight, sorry.

But I can go pretty much any other Tuesday for the rest of my life.

oh no, Brenda's on Je55e's computer again.

I can't go.

Me neither and I am making a grump face b/c Sarah might go and I cannot.

>:|

well she probably won't if no one else does. she really doesn't like trivia so i think i could only convince her if it would be more of a social thing.

I would like to preliminarily commit to go on the week of my birthday, that would be 2/21.