Chicago MMXII

I am dumb and haven't been following well — what kind of show is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEvE5Dz_YuI

ah, okay — I'd go if it was just me but Phillip and I will be hanging out on Friday and I don't know if I could convince him to sit through a set of dixieland jazz :\

if you change your mind, lemme know!

also green mill is a nice place to go on a date fyi

I've never been but really want to since seeing it explode in Thief

i'm just saying that i think you can build it up sufficiently to make him want to go
make it sound classy and exciting! uptown! al capone! secret tunnels! grouchy but extremely efficient veteran cocktail waitresses!

some of my soccerfriends are likely going to be there tomorrow night, I've been invited but I don't know if I can stay up that late anymore :(

the sat show starts and ends a little earlier, 8 - 12 iirc.

ha i forgot about that video, i am not a big fan of it. this is by far my favorite of the random videos on youtube (for the 2nd half mostly):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqb6qdZveRE

Italian deli that's supposed to be excellent (Bari)

Jordan, you would probably like this place. Tasty, oily Italian sandwiches.

i bet. do they do hot sandwiches? because i really like hot sandwiches. could always get them to go and then put them under the broiler i guess.

i'm planning on hitting that banh mi place on broadway before the show tomorrow.

if you're feeling like pho in addition to sangwich try tank across the street. GOOD.

that reminds me I saw that Ba Le on Check Please! recently... there was one dude on the show who just kept calling it and the surrounding neighborhood "dirty" and I'm like wtf dude have you been to Chicago before?

ugh

does he have any idea how many germs he is carrying around like ALL THE TIME?
dirty, i am so sure

i was amazed by ba le's general shininess.

it's totally renovated! i still think their refrigerated goods leave something to be desired, but the sandwiches are always good.

found the clip

http://video.wttw.com/video/1622433552/#

looking at the ba le menu and now i'm fiending for it. how do i choose only one sandwich?

"only one sandwich" doesn't sound like the Jordan I know

ha. i'm trying out self-restraint in 2012. i'm 30 now, can't eat like i used to. well, i totally can, but sometimes i don't feel good about it.

actually i want to bring some other folks down there and do the buy 5 + get 1 free.

The sandwiches are pretty small!

when i go to nhu lan a lot of times i feel like one sandwich isn't quite enough but two is too much. it's annoying.

sandwiches should be bigger. or smaller.

i'll also be having an avocado smoothie btw.

i should probably get a spring roll or some other kind of side next time i go to nhu lan. i pretty much only go to nhu lan when sarah's out of town because she doesn't like banh mi.

tbf to Check Please dude, that T at Broadway and Argyle is the only place in Chicago where I regularly came across chicken feet lying in the gutter. But really, fuck that guy.

NICK. Eat one and one half sandwich.

JORDAN. Choose the lemon grass pork sausage sandwich hurry

ok! i was thinking that or the bbq pork, with a passing interest in the meatball.

bbq pork is top notch
do not get the refrigerator spring rolls, they are gummy

Lemon grass sausage! LEMON GRASS SAUSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

There are or used to be sweet rice and coconut crepe-type things for desert and they are very good.

I gotta say lemongrass too. But the bbq is good.

Dangit now I want to go there. I *am* going to be up at like Lincoln and Foster tonight, it not that much farther away...

ok lemongrass. or both.

I saw this weekend that that there is a brand new banh mi place on Broadway at Carmen.

Those big giant bags of frozen

that reminds me I saw that Ba Le on Check Please! recently... there was one dude on the show who just kept calling it and the surrounding neighborhood "dirty" and I'm like wtf dude have you been to Chicago before?

Barf. I just watched the video and yeh, fuck that guy. When Alpana asks him what he thought, he can't make it through a sentence without interrupting himself to say how dirty the area was. "I took my nephew -- and again, the area was just [cringes apologetically, sucks in through his teeth] really dirty -- and inside it was really chaotic so we ate outside and it was kind of.... [cringe, hiss] dirty."

He also said something about the "uniqueness" of the neighborhood and how you gotta expect to "see things."

I wish a compulsive hand washing affliction on this guy.

What was his restaurant pick?

(Laying odds on the western suburbs.)

I was curious too but I just couldn't stand to watch for myself.

some place in River North called Zocalo

not to be confused with Vocalo

uh oh, i wonder how concerned i should be about the snow + getting to chicago tonight?

Maybe tho iirc it's mostly lake effect so it might not be as bad as far inland as the expressways you'll be taking.

Why does this guy have his bike on the train during rush hour. Bad boy.

I'm guilty of that — once when there was a sudden torrent of rain and another time when my back tire was completely flat

Bosslady asked me to make her a reservation at a place called Brunch in downtown and when I called they said that they only take reservations by email to the manager. I sort of hate that place now.

you have to be friends with the manager on facebook

reservations by twitter dm only

to make a reservation, post your desired time on tumblr and receive at least three (3) re-blogs

it's faster to bribe the manager via his kickstarter