LTH mentioned on Gridskipper

http://gridskipper.com/348468/scene-rep ... estaurants

Evidentially, LTH is "last year" - getting ousted by a site that hasn't even launched yet.

Some okay picks. Some questionable. Mostly what I'd expect from Gawker Media.

Eater will be fun for "insider" type stuff and rumor-mongering, but there still won't be anything to match the breadth and depth of LTHForum. They're 2 different things IMO.

Those "what's in" and "what's out" lists are so silly, anyway. I certainly wouldn't put Sepia's cocktails above the Violet Hour's cocktails. I enjoy Sepia's cocktails, but they don't have the balance and the attention of the Violet Hour's.

I was interested to learn that "Chitown still has a ways to go before it will be called an all-around food city."

We were so last year, and I didn't even know it.

I wasn't familiar with Gridskipper or Eater, which appears to be more blog than discussion forum.

Aaron Deacon wrote:I was interested to learn that "Chitown still has a ways to go before it will be called an all-around food city."

We were so last year, and I didn't even know it.

I wasn't familiar with Gridskipper or Eater, which appears to be more blog than discussion forum.

I also didn't know we had an area of town called The Warehouse District. Isn't that in KC, Aaron?

I didn't know that Bob Chinn's and Bistro 110 were overrated last year - I always thought they were both pretty decent places that have been consistently chugging along for years.

Looking past "last year" status, I thought that was pretty much an unqualified rave. Very complimentary. I think you have to be looking for a slight to find one there.

That said, anybody who feels this isn't a first rate "all-around food city" is clearly more informed by press than experience.

I was interested to learn that "Chitown still has a ways to go before it will be called an all-around food city."

Okay..maybe I'm being a cranky girl -- but i can't stand it when folks from other cities presume to call yours by some cutesy nickname like "Chitown". I had a friend in San Francisco who would go ballistic if you called her town "Frisco".

Now...we can call it that. Or anything else we wish. But we live here.

<smile>

I like the fact that Bruce Sherman and North Pond, a chef and restaurant who have been excelling for eight years, are leading this year's new trend.

Talk about being ahead of the curve....

LTH mentioned on Gridskipper

I prefer to think that it's a bigger deal for Gridskipper to be mentioned on LTH.

Dmnkly wrote:Looking past "last year" status, I thought that was pretty much an unqualified rave. Very complimentary. I think you have to be looking for a slight to find one there.

Oh, I agree. I thought it was a nice nod, and a bit unusual in coming from afar. And from a source maybe not, um, clued in to the Chicago food scene.

I like the fact that Bruce Sherman and North Pond, a chef and restaurant who have been excelling for eight years, are leading this year's new trend.

Yeah, but he just recently wrote a piece in Saveur.

Aaron Deacon wrote:

I like the fact that Bruce Sherman and North Pond, a chef and restaurant who have been excelling for eight years, are leading this year's new trend.

Yeah, but he just recently wrote a piece in Saveur.

Like I say, clearly based on press, not experience

Aaron Deacon wrote:I was interested to learn that "Chitown still has a ways to go before it will be called an all-around food city."

We were so last year, and I didn't even know it.

I wasn't familiar with Gridskipper or Eater, which appears to be more blog than discussion forum.

As a newcomer to the city there's a lot I don't like and you can see it through my reviews and I make no mistakes about it, but that said, to not call this an all-around food city is highly offensive. This is an all around food city, and is much more an all around food city than many other cities in the united states- san diego, dc, i'm looking at you. What makes Chicago an all around food city is that it doesn't just satisfy the high end (though Chicago needs to learn to do that better overall) but it satisfies the middle of the road and the low end as well. Chicago is an amazing food city and anyone who says otherwise can, for lack of a better phrase, suck it.

I love this!

whiskeybent wrote:

LTH mentioned on Gridskipper

I prefer to think that it's a bigger deal for Gridskipper to be mentioned on LTH.

Darren72 wrote:I love this!

whiskeybent wrote:

LTH mentioned on Gridskipper

I prefer to think that it's a bigger deal for Gridskipper to be mentioned on LTH.

Agreed and so true.

=R=

Llama wrote:http://gridskipper.com/348468/scene-report-chicago-restaurants
Some okay picks. Some questionable. Mostly what I'd expect from Gawker Media.

As they say, "Nothing to see here folks. . " I'll be skipping gridskipper in the future.

stevez wrote:I also didn't know we had an area of town called The Warehouse District. Isn't that in KC, Aaron?

Maybe you could call the West Bottoms that? A lot of cities certainly have warehouse districts, and I think Warehouse District often gets applied haphazardly.

I notice metromix includes the Warehouse District as one of its geographic categories.

I love Ed's comment on the article (bottom of the page)!

Wonder what we need to become an all-around food city?

My guesses:

1) More Last Year/This year lists

2) More jagoff posts from non-chicago "up-and-coming" blogs

3) Less eating, More writing


etc etc

Aaron Deacon wrote:

stevez wrote:I also didn't know we had an area of town called The Warehouse District. Isn't that in KC, Aaron?

Maybe you could call the West Bottoms that? A lot of cities certainly have warehouse districts, and I think Warehouse District often gets applied haphazardly.

Steve, probably you are thinking of the Freighthouse District, just north of Union Station and the old Freighthouse itself, which now houses Lydia's and Jack Stack. I was involved for about 11 years in the removal of the former PCB Treatment, Inc. Superfund site, which included the former warehouse at 2100 Wyandotte Street in the Freighthouse District ... as well as its sister operation at 45 Ewing Street in the West Bottoms!