Pond Cafe offers excellent fine dining and a tremendous view of the city from the North Pond Cafe in Lincoln Park (about $10 cab fare – 15 minute ride from your hotel and about $15 cab fare to the theatre). He features...

glasses and a nice bottle of a small production Pinot Noir from my cellar.

Agree on the Fuddruckers. Pretty consistent, which I can’t say for Five Guys since they started franchising. WILDLY unneven product, from dry/skunky patties to stale buns. I’ve had good luck at the one in Old Town...

(dried) The first of two dishes using the celebrated Fukienese red lees which ReneG and I discussed on the old thread. As it turns out, the lees are in fact produced right here in Chicago (!!product</b> of home winemaking ("/>...

with steriods and antibiotics, force fed grains and growth products, and not been flash frozen. You will notice the difference in that the skin is nice and tight, and white (not yellowed). The bird will be “almost”...

if Abraham is working the counter. South African beers (the fine Miller family of products) can be had for ~$2.25. Guinness on tap, though can’t say how frequently the keg is changed. Mine tasted alright. Link:...

can be as exciting as beluga caviar. A vegetable can be as glorious as lobster or foie. In my mind, it depends largely on in whose hands the products fall :) My expectations when I dine at restaurants that set to present...

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Despite the annoying clientele, the shaky service and the hi prices, I really like the coffee and coffee products at Hi Rise Bakery. The oatmeal is also delicious as is their sausage and lentil soup.

things were in full production with no people around and again on a weekend when the place was packed with people. It just smelled like the ocean to me. In fact, having been to fish processing plants and smokers, I thought it was...

The french toast is a real highlight and the fake sausage is quite good even for someone who has been known to say that she has never met a pork product that she didn’t like.

In the production of saikrok issan, minced pork is combined with sticky rice, garlic, etc., and then left to ferment until it has “soured.” This is likely the “medicinal” taste you describe... Erik M.

Just to make sure it’s clear, the tapioca pearls are made with tapioca starch, not gelatin. Gelatin, of course, is an animal product, a protein. Starch, a carbohydrate chain, can produce a range of similar textures as well,...

, such as white wine, but Livia (Alfonso’s Iaccarino’s wife) claimed no. It is then roasted with some aromatic woods. I am a bit on the fence regarding Don Alfonso. On hand, I have much respect for their farm and...

I found a picture of one: Link: http://www.cubanfoodmarket.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CFM&Product_Code=COL40401&Category_Code=20302 Image: http://www.cubanfoodmarket.com/Merchant2/col40401l.jpg