I have blogged about Real Kitchen and the gourmet ready meals that they prepare fresh daily before but I really felt that I had to share the really good sandwiches that we got there for lunch today. Blink and you may miss the small board listing the daily sandwiches, but for reference it’s on the far left…
Category: Brown Line
icompute cafe for when you need to print, scan, or just get a coffee or a scone
It does not seem so long ago that you could find a proper internet cafe on almost every corner. Nowadays everyone seems to have their own laptop, tablet, or pad and just lounge around on sofas in coffee shops. Who needs to print out something or even scan it? How old school or retro is that…
Lunch at Café Selmarie in Lincoln Square
Café Selmarie is right slap bang in the middle of Lincoln Square. The windows were so shiny and clean that I could see inside and out, they were incredibly polished. I wondered will the food inside be equally polished? I rolled up here in the heat of the lunchtime rush just around 12.30 and the place was…
Artisan Sandwiches alongside the Artists at First Slice Cafe in Ravenswood
I am a big fan of ‘First Slice’, which is a self-funded charity to feed the needy and homeless and have often frequented their cafe just next to the Brown Line up at the Francisco stop in North Manor although thinking about it that seems a bit daft as I have another one of their cafes right around the…
Warming up on a cold day with a spicy Banh Mi in Lakeview
On this late autumn day there were some nice patches of blue in the sky and some faint sunshine, but sadly those clear skies mean that it was a little bit on the cooler side especially in the shade. There was a simple choice to consider. If I needed a bit of heat, I could have stayed inside curled up on…
“There’s something about Mary’s hamburgers”
I have had Hamburger Mary’s on my radar for quite some time now but sadly I rarely seem to get over into Andersonville to eat at many of the districts varied and diverse resturants. Mostly I try to eat within easy reach of the elevated railway, and it is quite a distance between the nearest…
“Fast Super Burrito” – Is this the name of the place or a statement of fact?
Some time ago the morning after a late night visit to the Globe Pub on Irving Park Road I found pictures of “Fast Super Burrito” on my phone and then like the plot of the Hangover films I pieced together the details of my visit afterwards. If you have not seen those films then basically The Hangover tells the story…
The Clark Street Dog
Clark Street Dogs was one of the first places that I ever went to in Chicago, and on that occasion I had my first italian sausage. I did not have anything to compare that with so at the time I thought it was quite good. I went back a second time and tried one of their Philly…
Fatty’s – an ironic name, or a statement on those that eat big burgers?
Fatty’s signage – I like the pictures, am I going to like the food? I have to be honest in that I am a little mixed in my opinion, although my burger was quite tasty, the fries were not to my liking, they were somewhere between twice cooked and dried out with no discernable reason…
Pork Chops of the late night variety has become a food drug – Jeri’s Grill became my new supplier
Late night at Jeri’s Grill, I was in dire need of some sort of breakfast type food, more specifically I really had my mind set on some pork chops. Every morning my bus passes by Jeri’s and I look across at the same window shown above wishing that I was in there having some eggs…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 