I really was not sure what to expect as I rode the Green Line out to the end of the line at Harlem. To be unkind I was not expecting the best, not a ghetto as such, but not an oasis of delight either. What I did find was a lovely little section of streets…
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The Big Cheese on Lincoln – Open at last! grilled cheese sandwiches for all!
After what seems like the longest wait ever, The Big Cheese on Lincoln Avenue finally opened its doors. Was it really back in March that several sources reported that the space on the corner of Lincoln and W Cullom was being taken over by “The Big Cheese”? It really was, and in that time I have…
Cheesies at Evanston – “Please let the Classic be a Classic”
After learning that their was a new branch of Cheesies in Evanston I had to take the long trek up the red and purple lines to Davis Street in Evanston to see if it was the same and any good. This time I went back to my usual choice, “The Classic”- This is a sandwich…
Blog Anniversary – Return to Cheesies
Each time I pass Belmont on the El I look down and see Cheesies, the scene of my very first blog post. As it was the anniversary of me starting The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt project I thought it would be appropriate to go back and have another of Cheesies really tasty sandwiches. Since I was…
Melrose Diner – Almost the best grilled cheese on offer “a tale of two halves”
After visiting Falafill last time out I realised that there was so many more places to eat in this area. I had already clocked the almost vintage sytle sign for Melrose Resturant on a few occasions and today I was really in the mood for some diner food. In my head as I passed down…
Spencer’s “Jolly Posh” foods: “Show me a shop full of ex-pat English Treats and I will show you my guilty pleasures”
That shop is Spencer’s Jolly Posh Foods shop and it is full of all those necessities from back home and perhaps things that you dont really need but that you want as soon as you see them. Sadly you have to time your visit as it is only open on certain days. But trust me if…
Eggs, Bacon and more, 24 hours a day, at Diner Grill
You know that there has to be something good and decent on offer when you walk past a 24 Diner just around closing time and it is a packed as this. That was the situation I found myself in on Saturday night as I departed the Globe Pub on Irving Park Rd after a couple of pints of…
Fox and Obel
I was so disappointed with my grilled cheese sandwich at Fox and Obel last week that it has taken me all week to get around to writing about it. As I was waiting for it to arrive I had tweeted that I was about to get one, and Fox and Obel had tweeted me back…
Beechers – Cheese Emporium NYC
Just between Union Square and the Flatiron building is Beechers, it is actually right next to the new location of ‘Craft’ Tom Coliccio’s resturant, so it is in good company. It describes itself as a store and cafe and it certainly was a striking and very pleasant space to eat lunch in. I…
Nookies Edgewater
This place need to advertise itself much better, I headed up to the Bryn Mawr Red Line stop as I had not eaten anywhere up there yet and in my quest to find somewhere near each stop to snack it seemed a fair place to stop. It was a great day for November and I…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 