Confess your sins of omission: where haven't you been?

Cathy2 wrote:Yep, I have never been to Al's.

Now there's an idea for a slow day thread (whether or not this is one). Where have you not been, that you'd be vaguely abashed to admit in front of LTHForum you've never been to?

Mine is an ethnic food place that normal non-food-crazed people go to, that's relatively near my house, that I even used to patronize the small grocery it grew from... yet somehow, I've never actually eaten at Tango Sur.

Confess your sins of omission, LTHers. (And produce some ideas of places to go to, along the way...)

I've never had a single bite of anything from Hoosier Mama.

I've never bought a cupcake from a bakery.

pretty short list for me,

GNR's:
Khan BBQ - parking blows around there
Tac Quick
Uncle Johns - I dont like carry-out

Non GNR's:
Red Hot Ranch - one of these days after Toon's

not too many regrets on where I havent eaten yet, other than these 4. most likely if I havent eaten somewhere its not on my list of places I want to eat.

i've never been to:

Birrieria Zaragoza
Vito and Nick's
Manny's
Weiner and Still Champion
Uncle John's

yeah i know...

Superdawg--and I'm born and bred a Chicagoan .

jimswside wrote:pretty short list for me,

GNR's:
Khan BBQ - parking blows around there

Jim (and anyone else who hesitates to head to Khan's because of parking): I hate to think of your not trying chicken boti because of parking. I've posted this free parking map from the West Ridge Chamber of Commerce before. The Devon Bank lot is less than half a block from Khan's. Mutual Bank, also listed on the map, has now become "United Central Bank" (can these bank names get any more generic?), and I don't know if they are honoring the free parking commitment. We are lucky enough to be able to walk to Devon Avenue.

EvA wrote:Jim (and anyone else who hesitates to head to Khan's because of parking): I hate to think of your not trying chicken boti because of parking. I've posted this free parking map from the West Ridge Chamber of Commerce before. The Devon Bank lot is less than half a block from Khan's. Mutual Bank, also listed on the map, has now become "United Central Bank" (can these bank names get any more generic?), and I don't know if they are honoring the free parking commitment. We are lucky enough to be able to walk to Devon Avenue.

thanks, that info will help alot for next time I am in the area.

I must have missed/forgotten the parking tips if they were peosted before.

jimswside wrote:Khan BBQ - parking blows around there

The Pay-at-the-Box system has really helped the parking situation around Devon & Western lately. I've been up to Khan a 4-5 times this year, and all but once I've parked directly in front or just across the street. The one time my luck ran out, I still only parked a half block north on Western.

Don't let yourself suffer from boti deprivation any longer!

Oh so many, but the first to mind is Great Lake. And Alinea. I'd like to fix both of those omissions soon.

Ooh, also Big & Little's.

--Rich

jimswside wrote:Khan BBQ - parking blows around there

This is a myth.

I park around there frequently, around dinner time, on Western within a block or two of Devon to the north or south without a problem. Khan is a frequent take-out spot for me because parking is pretty darn easy.

EDIT: Didn't see Eva's parking tips, but I've never needed those lots.

This is not in order, just what comes to my mind right now:

Abundance Bakery
Big Star
DMK
Xoco
Floriole
Frontera Grill ( I had planned a birthday gathering there back when the area was gritty but my grandmum died and the funeral was in NC and just never got there)

Girl and the Goat (Izzard was charming and had good food last week at the Chef's Demo at Green City Market but I swear the name of the place just continues to make me think of a porn title)

Topolobampo
Spring
Spiaggia
Cafe Spiaggia
Semiramis( I have a Groupon that's about to expire so hopefully I will rectify that this week)-- Mission Accomplished!

Chicago Diner (don't let them take my vegetarian card )
Vito and Nicks

I've never been to the Bunny Hutch.

I've never been to Lao Sze Chuan. Or LTH, for that matter. Or Great Lake.

I've never set foot in a Lou Malnati's or eaten Gino's East pizza. I've never had a kernel of Garrett's popcorn.

I've never been to Al's or Johnnie's.

Sbarro.

aschie30 wrote: I've never had a kernel of Garrett's popcorn.

Are you coming to the picnic? I adore the Chicago Mix.

I also have never been to The Namesake, and I've somehow still never been to Avec.

Others I haven't checked out but really, really want to:
Birrieria Zaragoza
Calumet Fisheries
Podhalanka (it's right down the street from us, and I've been dying for some bigos, yet never manage to get there)
Scooter's
Sticky Rice (always pass it on the way back from Spoon Thai and say to myself, "next time...", always forget by next time)

Alinea
Schwa
Trotters
Spiaggia
Wiener and Still Champion
and a host of other that I'm trying to knock off the list. Oh yeah, and....

The Money Shot ...the girlfriend always refused

Alinea- would love to go if I only had $600 to throw around...
Anything Bayless - just don't get downtown that often, and when we do it isn't pre-planned enough...
Paradise Pup - keep thinking I gotta go here...
Tallgrass (whiny voice) it's such a far drive...
Fred Hot & Fries- (dear Franks is so close and their fries are so gooood.....)
there's more I know there is....

Edzo's. Much to my sad sad chagrin...

Al's
Mario's
Great Lake (and it's in my hood!)
Weiner & Still Champion
Most of the pizza joints in discussion
Sabatino's (another sob -- i really want to rectify this one)
Xoco

Old-Fashioned Doughnuts, it's been on my list of places to go for almost 3 years now. I tell everyone in the world to go there . . . but still haven't made it myself.

bjt

I've never been to the Bunny Hutch.

We just golfed it the other day!




I forget where we had lunch... but it wasn't the Bunny Hutch.

Smak-Tak

Manny's is probably my most glaring "never been". There are plenty of other GNRs I haven't been to, but Manny's is probably the one I'd like to get to the most.

earthlydesire wrote:Great Lake (and it's in my hood!)

This is my sinful omission, as well...but GL is so far from me, and so close to you, that I humbly submit that your degree of sin is much more damnable than mine, amen.

I have a pretty huge list of places to try. The most glaring are probably:

Patty's (I'm not a breakfast guy, so this probably has to wait until an out-of-towner who actually eats breakfast stays with me)
Frontera and Topo
Great Lake
Burt's Place
Sun Wah
Paradise Pup
Scooter's
A bagel from New York Bagel & Bialy

There are several more, but I don't want to bore you all. It's hard to find people to go with me since most of my friends are as far from the foodie label as humanly possible, but I'm slowly working through it.

My list is too long to mention, but I also live near the Wisconsin boarder and might be moving to Kenosha. One place I really want to try is Well's Brothers. All that a friend of mine, who lives up that way, keeps saying is "It's in a REALLY bad neighborhood", but that doesn't bother me if the food is good,.

MikeW665 wrote:My list is too long to mention, but I also live near the Wisconsin boarder and might be moving to Kenosha. One place I really want to try is Well's Brothers. All that a friend of mine, who lives up that way, keeps saying is "It's in a REALLY bad neighborhood", but that doesn't bother me if the food is good,.

If you live near the Wisconsin border, where Well's is located, you have no excuse. Far as the neighborhood, it may be "bad" by Wisconsin border town standards, but I'd take my mother for a post pizza walk around the block and never give it a second thought. And yes, I like my mother.

Enjoy,
Gary

Sun Wah....could walk there.....dying to try it.....what's my problem? (probably the calories, but still....)

not sure how I left this one off my original list.

Nhu' Lan

I gotta get here.

I haven't been to a lot of places I'd like to. My love of fatty birds, Chinese foods, and great prices, however, makes Sun Wah the most glaring omission of mine, imo.