I love roasted chicken and I am a total sucker for a well named resturant, so Kluck U on N Broadway Ave in Lakeview succeeded on attracting me though both counts. While we are at names, others I would like to see are French fast food outlets selling frogs legs and snails, maybe called “Just Croaked”…
Saigon Sisters – East Loop at Clinton
Today I ventured out onto a new branch of the El and started my hunt up the Green and Pink lines. The first stop out of the Loop is the Clinton stop which is just near to the French Market. I figured I would save the market for a weekend when I had time to…
Billy Goat Tavern at Navy Pier
When the sun shines even if it is cold I love to hit the shore and one of my favorite locations to wander to is Navy Pier, especially out of season when there are no crowds. Now I am not going to try and kid anyone that I come here for the gourmet experience, I come…
Emerald City Coffee House
The Emerald City Coffee house is right beneath the train tracks at the Sheridan CTA el station on the Red Line. You can walk straight into the shop without exiting the station. Of course instead of using the convenient method of taking the train here, you can use the walking method, which tonight for…
Bop and Grill – an Umami Burger?
Hurrah the rain stopped and the skies cleared so I was back on the el train and headed up to Loyola in hunt of something different. I think that I found this at Bop and Grill where alongside some more traditional offerings there were a wide selection of Korean themed sandwiches. I was…
Cooking at home aka Jamie Oliver – Meatball Carbonara
So earlier today I had a disastrous lunch at Burrito House, but never mind, as promised (mostly to myself) tonight I have cooked one of my favorite meals, my version of Jamie Oliver’s Sausage Carbonara or ‘linguine alla carbonara di salsiccia’. Now I do take some liberties with the recipe which all good home cooks…
Rock bottom at Burrito House
This afternoon I think that my El Stop tour hit rock bottom as I finally relented and walked into the Burrito House near to the Addison Brown line CTA station. I had many other targets in mind, but really I was too tired and lazy to travel too far from home to get something of…
Firehouse Grill – Evanston
The Firehouse Grill in Evanston is a place that I have frequented on my way back from a Golf Outing on a number of occasions. It has a number of daily specials usually in the sandwich, burger, meatball arena. To be honest I struggle to recall much about this place except that I have found…
Lina Pita – Authentic Moroccan Cuisine
I haved walked past Lina Pita a number of times and from the outside it really does not look much. However there was this picture in the window of a tagine that always caught my eye. So in the mood for something in a bowl I made a special trip over to Belmont to see…
The ‘New’ Mic Duck’s Drive-In
Some time ago a friend complained that I hadn’t written anything for a few days and then it was all about Food Trucks in New York. My response was that I did not like the places I had visited in Chicago that week and they weren’t worth going back to. He commented that part of the…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 