NYTimes on Chicago

In Sunday's Travel Magazine (NY Times), Christine Muhlke writes up her quest "in search of America's greatest food." The conceit: a "high" and "low" priced meal in cities from San Francisco to California. How odd then that her Chicago "low" should be De Cero, which is neither particularly cheap, nor particularly good, IMHO. The "high" was Avec/Blackbird, a safe choice. Her guide was Food & Wine Magazine and Zagat, so perhaps the choices are unsurprising.


http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/t ... dtrip.html

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Looks like she was looking for places she could do in a burst while visiting with her parents. They're all of two blocks apart.

On the other hand, Chicago fares better than Pennysylvania, represented by Dairy Queen.

In Kansas City, she ate at a place called Sardines.

That pretty much sums it up.

She says, "I'm calling from the mall" and is surprised when they ask "Which one?" What's that about?

Slightly off point, but the Travel Section (the actual Travel section, not the magazine) profiles of Vegas were pretty much crap as well.

If nothing else, the moral of the story on how to spend 1,000 a day in Las Vegas was

take a lot of cabs

It's always amusing when the New York Times is the last organization in America to know something, and to announce it breathlessly to the rest of us:

The paper of record wrote:I cabbed downtown, only to discover Fremont Street had become the Fremont Street Experience, a five-block roofed mall.

In the next installment, he will inform us that Glen Canyon has been dammed.