Flourchild's, Lincolnshire

http://www.flourchilds.com
185 Milwaukee Avenue, at the corner of Route 45 (Old Half Day Road) and Route 21 (Milwaukee Avenue)
Lincolnshire, IL
847-478-9600

Flourchild's bills itself as 60's-themed retro italian.
The 60's theme comes mostly in menus enclosed in old LP sleeves, and musical selection (although they strayed into the 80's, it was Grateful Dead), with tie-died t-shirts on the waitrons.

The menu is pretty much standard sandwiches, pizza and pasta - nothing particularly retro about it.

A Santa Fe salad was an enormous chicken-based taco salad. Fresh ingredients - hardly italian.

Blackened Shrimp and Andoille pizza? Hardly retro. Tasty, according to our dining companions, and reasonably priced (the two of them, with salads, didn't finish a $12, 12" pizza).

Eggplant parmesan, my benchmark for basic Italian-American, was serviceable. Crunchy breading on slices a bit thick for my taste, but well cooked, atop linguine (sauce was too watery, good thing the eggplant wasn't sitting in it. Lots of garlic and cheese. About what americans think of Italian food.

Service was pleasant, prices not unreasonable. They have beer from Flatlander's next door on tap (but not the rootbeer), our companions thought they had a common owner.

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From the earlier mentions, I think I might vomit being confronted w/ yet another cutesy, passe' iteration of 60's counter-culture by way of suburban Chicago pizza: an earlier thread visits po-mo boomer diner/Billy Goat ripoff-Chee(ugh)burgerX2.

Creative bankruptcy at it's best.

Well, who doesn't love a bit of reductive pandering?

: flour child...

Hey! Pizza-Ria

rubes

If, indeed, they share ownership with Flatlanders, they probably won't go under too soon. They are too cutesy for their own good, but they may draw on the baby boomer nostalgia crowd.

The place was pretty empty when I was there, but there was a Bears game going on somewhere.

I didn't notice the Lactose-free cheese note, but the pizza had by my companions didn't emphasize cheese (shrimp and andouille). The cheese on my eggplant parm was just fine.

And, hey, I liked Cheeburger.

JoelF wrote:If, indeed, they share ownership with Flatlanders, they probably won't go under too soon. They are too cutesy for their own good, but they may draw on the baby boomer nostalgia crowd.

The place was pretty empty when I was there, but there was a Bears game going on somewhere.

I didn't notice the Lactose-free cheese note, but the pizza had by my companions didn't emphasize cheese (shrimp and andouille). The cheese on my eggplant parm was just fine.

And, hey, I liked Cheeburger.

My sometime irascibility got the best of me earlier as per the three restaurants mentioned in my reply.

I'd probably give Cheeburger a try(it does look good), but the misapprehended name, backhanded swipe at the Billy Goat, and forced "diner" aesthetic, make me shudder.

That's my original beef

This whole "ya gotta get a gimmick" schtick. I know! I know! How about serving great food?

nah...that's been done

Gee, why didn't they call it flowerchild's instead of flourchild's?

Is there some trademark issue, or are they trying to be too cute for their own good?

For that matter, why not call it Alice's?

George R wrote:Gee, why didn't they call it flowerchild's instead of flourchild's?

IMO, it's just a lame attempt to link it to the pizza.

JoelF wrote:

George R wrote:Gee, why didn't they call it flowerchild's instead of flourchild's?

IMO, it's just a lame attempt to link it to the pizza.

See, as restaurant names go, I don't think it's totally sucky: it does connect with their 60's theme and their product. It's cute, sure, but I've heard worse.

Now the restaurant names that really chaff my butt are those with "funny" double-initialed monikers like J.B. Winberie's, P.J. Chang's, etc., all ultimately traceable, I believe, to their still living progenitor, R.J. Grunt's.

Hammond

David Hammond wrote:Now the restaurant names that really chaff my butt are those with "funny" double-initialed monikers like J.B. Winberie's, P.J. Chang's, etc., all ultimately traceable, I believe, to their still living progenitor, R.J. Grunt's.

On the other hand, L Wood has a nice triple entendre: Wood smoke (don't know if they actually do, but the connotation is there), Elwood Blues, a Chicago icon, and Lincolnwood. A lot better name than Bones. So I give them props for that -- LEYE is still on top for gimmick names.

I thought it referred to this guy.

Or how about Reese Witherspoon's character, Elle Woods, in Legally Blonde?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250494/

As long as we are doing Lincolnshire posts today.

Flourchilds is closed. Sorry to see it go, it was pretty good for the area. They seemed pretty busy in the early evening but almost no lunch probably killed them.