jbw wrote:

If you are stuck in the culinary wasteland of Clark Street in Lincoln Park, a decent one-two

Posted elsewhere, but let me mention it here, too:

Nella Pizzeria Napoletana
2423 N. Clark St.
773-327-3400

Noble Tree Coffee & Tea
2444 North Clark Street
(for a Hoosier Mama Pie dolce)

I am actually planning on doing this today. I am at Noble Tree as I type this, and plan to grab lunch at Nella later, then return to Noble Tree.

More of a 1-2-3 punch, with punches 1 and 3 being the same place.....

LTH,

Another great one-two punch would be:

Honey One BBQ
2241 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 227-5130

and

Red Hot Ranch
2072 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
773-235-5538

Double dog for an amuse!

Evil Ronnie wrote:LTH,

Another great one-two punch would be:

Honey One BBQ
2241 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 227-5130

and

Red Hot Ranch
2072 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
773-235-5538

Double dog for an amuse!

That is a great one-two as is a few steak tacos from Las Asadas and a dog from Redhot ranch. I'm also very curious about the old school (since 1957) John's Pizzeria right next door. Could go very well paired with a dog even if its just good, not great tavern style.

My new best one-two punch in the city is a Mexican hot dog from Las Delicias paired with anything fried from Troha's (I like the lake perch and shrimp) which is exactly across the street. Hard to beat this pairing.


Count me in as a big fan of the Mexican hot dogs on 26th

I had my fist of many yesterday and just had to stop in at Troha's across the street for a snack to have after.


Fresh Fried Lake Perch

Delicias Mexicanas
4148 W 26th St
Chicago
773-522-5009

Troha's Chicken & Shrimp House
4151 W 26th St
Chicago, IL
773-521-7847

We had a one-two lunch today beginning with hot dogs and surprisingly good fried shrimp at red hot ranch followed by soft serve with a blondie brownie from Belly Shack. We could have followed it up with Margies, but that seemed excessive. Both stops were very satisfying.

Redhot Ranch
2072 North Western Avenue, Chicago

Belly Shack
bellyshack.com
1912 North Western Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647-4332
(773) 252-1414

Yesterdays punches landed:

breakfast @ Tierra Caliente(carne asada & al pastor tacos)
lunch @ Toons(wings, abts, fried jalapenos, drinks)
lunch @ Big Star(al pastor taco, drinks)
drink @ Bar Deville(ass kickin drink)
dinner @ Triple Crown(whole dungeness crab, oysters, beef chow fun in XO sauce, egg rolls, drink)

mercy...

Yesterday's lunch at Schoop's followed by a couple of treats from Old Fashioned Donuts for the ride home. A fine day indeed.

this is where we hit yesterday:

lunch: Big Star - Al Pastor, pork belly, Heradura tequila, and beer

drink: Toons - Tequila, and the High Life

dinner: Triple Crown - Dungeness crab hunan style, pan fried rice noodles(extra crsipy) with shrimp and bok choy, beef fried rice.

jimswside wrote:I dont do dessert, so this is where we hit yesterday:

lunch: Big Star - Al Pastor, pork belly, Heradura tequila, and beer

drink: Toons - Tequila, and the High Life

dinner: Triple Crown - Dungeness crab hunan style, pan fried rice noodles(extra crsipy) with shrimp and bok choy, beef fried rice.

Sounds great! Isn't that a three-punch?

Dave148 wrote:

jimswside wrote:I dont do dessert, so this is where we hit yesterday:

lunch: Big Star - Al Pastor, pork belly, Heradura tequila, and beer

drink: Toons - Tequila, and the High Life

dinner: Triple Crown - Dungeness crab hunan style, pan fried rice noodles(extra crsipy) with shrimp and bok choy, beef fried rice.

Sounds great! Isn't that a three-punch?

lol, thats how I roll, 2 punches is for quitters.

I might be heading out to Semiramis tonight for dinner. If so, where's can I get a good ice cream-related capper?

I had forgotten about this thread, but I am tentatively planing what I may dub my birthday gut punch for next Thursday or Friday....

Hot Doug's for an early lunch (Two sausages + cheese fries)
walk over to Kuma's for a couple of beers and a burger.

SSDD

Pie Lady wrote:I might be heading out to Semiramis tonight for dinner. If so, where's can I get a good ice cream-related capper?

As your location is Niles, I assume you will be heading NW after dinner, that puts both The Chocolate Shoppe and Village Creamery on your flight path home.

The Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream
5337 W Devon Ave
Chicago, IL 60646
773-763-9778

Village Creamery - http://www.villagecreamery.com
4558 Oakton St,
Skokie, IL
(847) 982-1720

Village Creamery - very close to H-Mart
8000 N Waukegan Rd,
Niles, IL
(847) 965-9805

headcase wrote:I had forgotten about this thread, but I am tentatively planing what I may dub my birthday gut punch for next Thursday or Friday....

Hot Doug's for an early lunch (Two sausages + cheese fries)
walk over to Kuma's for a couple of beers and a burger.

SSDD

DUDE! You'll explode! Be careful.

JLenart wrote:

headcase wrote:I had forgotten about this thread, but I am tentatively planing what I may dub my birthday gut punch for next Thursday or Friday....

Hot Doug's for an early lunch (Two sausages + cheese fries)
walk over to Kuma's for a couple of beers and a burger.

SSDD

DUDE! You'll explode! Be careful.

I am fully aware of this possibility, but they say you only live once, and what better way to go?

SSDD

headcase wrote:

JLenart wrote:

headcase wrote:I had forgotten about this thread, but I am tentatively planing what I may dub my birthday gut punch for next Thursday or Friday....

Hot Doug's for an early lunch (Two sausages + cheese fries)
walk over to Kuma's for a couple of beers and a burger.

SSDD

DUDE! You'll explode! Be careful.

I am fully aware of this possibility, but they say you only live once, and what better way to go?

SSDD

Not a bad argument, actually.

G Wiv wrote:

Pie Lady wrote:I might be heading out to Semiramis tonight for dinner. If so, where's can I get a good ice cream-related capper?

As your location is Niles, I assume you will be heading NW after dinner, that puts both The Chocolate Shoppe and Village Creamery on your flight path home.

Actually the avocado shake got a good review here and I just had their 3-oz. serving the other day and loved it, so the Village Creamery is a good bet.

GNR punches landed

Stop# 1 : Spring World - Good
Stop# 2: Mario's for my wife and daughter - meh
Stop# 3: Al's on Taylor for my dessert - nice
Stop# 4: Vito & Nicks - good

Nice day, 175 miles round trip, plus never had to go north of the Ike and out of Sox territory to do it.

Well Jim I guess you aren't the only person hitting four spots today! On our way home from a night in Milwaukee today.

Stop #1 Mars Cheese Castle -Draft of Spotted cow and Several Assorted cheeses to go.
Stop #2 Bobby Nelson's Cheese and sausage shop- Landjagers, Summer Sausage, Garlic & Chive Curds
Stop #3 The Brat Stop-Schooners of Spotted Cow, Brat and Ribeye from Charcoal grill behind bar.
12 pack of Spotted Cow, 2# Fresh Brats and pack of assorted cheese curds and beef sticks to go.
Stop #4 The Spot Drive-In Double Cheeseburger, Onion rings, Vanilla Ice cream for the 2 year old

This was a great day and traffic was not as bad as expected on the end of a 3 day weekend. loved everything and The spot was the only place that was new for us, We will be back! Over all a great day with the family and plenty of North siders!!

danny, really nice run of places there. kudos to you.

A favorite 1-2-3 punch that I've done twice in two weeks now:

Cocktails at Bar de Ville
Dinner at Habana Libre
Dessert at Black Dog Gelato - preferably on the benches outside

Yesterday:

1) Drinks @ The Southern
2) BBQ @ Lillie's Q
3) Drinks @ The Southern
4) Drinks @ Toon's
5) Pizza @ Marie's

LTH,

We started the holiday weekenf early Friday afternoon by going to Big and Little Seafood for lunch, where we enjoyed the batter fried shrimp, grilled squid and mahi tacos, and a crab tostada. That evening, we had the pleasure of a wonderful meal with Jazzfod and his lovely girlfriend Teresa at Riccardo Trattoria. Alan did the ordering and put together a wonderful feast that I'll long remember...especially the tripe "Florentine", fried zucchini blossoms, vitello tonnato and grilled baby squid stuffed with lobster and crab.

Evil

GNR Fabulous Noodles Lisle for a lunch feast, then Andy's Custard in Bolingbrook on the way home for a vanilla custard & a Sprecher rootbeer float. Really nice.

Today was my first double-double in years...

Lunch was at Tasty City in Chinatown:
Curry calamari
Shrimp toast
Ong choy with jalapeno bean curd paste
T.C. Baby oyster cake

followed by Mario's honeydew and orange ices

Dinner was a wonderful Steak and Shake triple cheeseburger. So good, I enjoyed it's beefy goodness with raw onion and sour pickle only.

followed by Mario's honeydew and watermelon ices

Had one last week, with a friend in town..

1) 7:30pm, Nhu Lan, Lawrence. The Lemongrass Pork and Ginger Tofu Bahn mi's (half each), plus one pate-chaud each.

2) 8:00pm, Jaffer Sweets, Kedzie. Two katayif (one cheese, one walnut) each, and some to go.

3) 8:30pm, Khan BBQ, Devon. Very slow service, fair-to-middling tandoori-rotis, a good Chicken Boti, and a mindblowingly awesome Kadai Gosht on the day (so good that we went back the next afternoon.. when it was very good, but no longer spectacular).

4) 9:30pm, Tahoora Sweets, Devon. 1 fair Malai Kulfi each (the next afternoon we took the slightly longer walk to King's Sweets, which had fallen below Tahoora for my kulfi needs lately.. and the King's kulfi was better than Tahoora's by a bit, so now King's is back at #1 on my Kulfi-on-Devon charts this week).

c8w

kicked some ass around Bucktown/Wicker Park yesterday,

-George's Hot Dogs(chicago style dog)
-Hot Chocolate(hot chocolate & a marshmallow)
-Piece(white pizza, beer)
-iCream(nutella ice cream)
-Big Star(sonoran dog, High Life, mezcal)
-Lillie's Q(ribs, pulled pork, moonshine, PBR)
-Violet Hour(Pappy 15 year, tequila old fashioned)
-The Bluebird(pumpkin beer, chartuciere)
-Greektown Gyros(gyros)

With some of Mr. X's family in town, he had extolled the wonders of the Violet Hour to them. We ended up with a great one-two punch of TVH followed by dinner at Lillie Q's. Not bad for a Monday night.

yesterday:

1) brunch @ Longman & Eagle - magnificent
2) 6 hours+ @ Toons - brilliant
3) dinner @ Myron & Phils -

This one-two punch will only work through February 19, but I highly recommend lunch from Graziano's followed by the Heads on Poles show just around the corner at the art gallery Western Exhibitions. The exhibit is as the title says: the two curators invited over four dozen artists to explore the historically macabre image of a head mounted on a stick. The result is far from grim.


John Parot's Winter's Hair (2011)

On display rather is a wild menagerie of, well, heads on poles. And while the theme is not food related, the show includes one pretty rad popcorn maker.


Nick Black's Popcorn (2011)

Yes, gallery visitors can actually use this take of a head on a pole to make a snack. Everything needed, including instructions and seasoning, is there.





Though the price is steep (listed at $1,000) for a kitchen gadget that would need more than counter space, I love it because it reminds me of Bruce Nauman's carousel sculptures from the late '80s. I wish I would have had the time to shoot video of the machine in action, but, again, I think it's well-worth a visit to get the complete effect.

Not being a sandwich person and as one who generally subsists on cheese, my lunch from Graziano's consisted of a large wedge of the Sardinian Blu Mediterraneo, which I had never had before. This semi-soft sheep's milk cheese starts off delicately but ends with a very memorable, fruity sharpness. I was glad to have left some to enjoy with dinner tonight.



I think the Graziano's-Western Exhibitions one-two punch would be a fantastic outing with kids (kids OK with heads on poles) or even a date--delicious and entertaining.

J.P. Graziano
901 W. Randolph St. 
Chicago, IL 60607 
312-666-4587

Western Exhibitions
119 N. Peoria St., Suite 2A
Chicago, IL 60607
312-480-8390
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11am-6pm
Heads on Poles through February 19, 2011

On a frigid night in Logan Square: later dinner at BYO Wasabi, with more hits than a menu as far-reaching usually merits (Berkshire pork belly and kimchi fried spring roll; shoyu tonkotsu ramen with extra egg; maybe-out-of-place but delicious duck breast with brussels sprouts and a kind of beurre blanc; fried shiitake and chicken gizzard skewers), followed by drinks and dancing at The Burlington, apparently 60s rock and roll night with hipstery guys and gals getting down on the friendliest dance floor I've encountered in a while. Win-win.

Wasabi
2539 N. Milwaukee Ave. 
773-227-8180
http://wasabichicago.com/

The Burlington
3425 W. Fullerton Ave.
773-384-3243
http://www.theburlingtonbar.com