Chicago's Best Brownies....are at a chicken place?

I was going to title this thread "Mother-loving brownies at a mother-loving chicken place" but decided against it.

But, you heard me right. Chicago's best brownies are available for purchase at an unlikely place: Metropolis Rotisseria at 924 W. Armitage.

Metropolis has long been a go-to delivery place in my home: nice, moist chicken, and lovely sides such as white bean stew, soft polenta with herbs, and a pretty good caesar salad.

Tonight, I decided it was that kind of night, myself suffering from a strained tendon and some bone bruising in my left foot-- crutches and cooking don't tend to mix well. For future reference, if you're walking between Hoyne and Damen on Dickens, watch out for the mother-loving hole in the mother-loving sidewalk. I went down like an old lady, in front of a church full of people leaving after 10 AM services. Awesome.

But, back to the brownies. They are fudgy, dense, enormous (the size of at least two well-cut brownies at other bakeries) made with really, really good chocolate and probably 8 sticks of butter. I threw them into my order (placed lovingly on grubhub.com) as a last minute thought. I expected them to at least be decent, based on the overall quality of other items at Metropolis. I didn't expect my eyes to roll back in my head and be transported to some sort of brownie induced altered state of consciousness.


I am now a bit scared that I will NEED to order these brownies to accompany my chicken on a scarily regular basis. I instructed my husband to monitor my bank account and if he sees charges to Metropolis more than once a month or so, to cut me off.

Seriously, they're that good. For those not enamored of brownies, well you're weird: but Metropolis includes little "samples" of their pretty good homemade italian ice with each chicken order.

924 W. Armitage, Chicago
Tel: (773) 868-9000
Online ordering at grubhub.com

I encourage you to give the brownies at Milk and Honey on Division a try. Several years ago when working close enough to lunch there every now and then, i developed and unfettered addiction to those brownies.

Dark, dense and the epitome of what a dessert that says "chocolate" should be, in my opinion.

YourPalWill wrote:I encourage you to give the brownies at Milk and Honey on Division a try. Several years ago when working close enough to lunch there every now and then, i developed and unfettered addiction to those brownies.

Dark, dense and the epitome of what a dessert that says "chocolate" should be, in my opinion.

I have had the Milk and Honey brownies and, until tonight, they were indeed my go to brownie. The Metropolis brownies are even richer and darker with chocolate chips in various half melted states scattered throughout.

Perhaps a Brownie-A-Thon is in order

You should add Fox and Obel's brownie's to the list if you do it. And I would like to attend.

bnowell724 wrote:You should add Fox and Obel's brownie's to the list if you do it. And I would like to attend.

Perhaps the Brownie-A-Thon is a worthwhile endeavor then. I'll check my schedule and post in the events board a few options for the date!

Awesome! I am soooo down!