Every year we have a Chicago Christkindlmarket Date Day and every year we freeze our butts off. To make matters worse, by the time we visit, they’re usually out of the year’s commentative wine mugs. Today was finally different! It Read more…
Trains, chipmunks and lettuce. We love this time of year! The air is crisp and chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and you can get just about anything flavored with pumpkin-spice. Today started out a little rainy, but we Read more…
A Main Street that stretches over a half-mile with over 125 boutiques, galleries and shops? 28,000 square-feet of antiques? Ireland in Illinois? A new house on Lake Michigan? It’s all inside this week’s Date Day adventure to Galena. Usually our Read more…
It was a perfect day, so we made plans to park in downtown Chicago, walk to Lincoln Park Zoo and have an outdoor lunch somewhere along the way. With memories of Jonathon Brandmeier’s The Moo-Moo Song dancing in our heads, Read more…
Hackney’s is a Chicagoland institution. Started in Glenview in the 1920’s, the family-owned restaurant chain currently has three locations, two in Glenview and one in Palos Park. Sadly, the locations in Wheeling, Lake Zurich and downtown Chicago have closed. Today was Read more…
Today, we tried the best burger in America. Seriously, the best burger in America. At least that’s what Bon Appetit and many others have said about the burger at Au Cheval. People typically wait hours to get a table at Read more…
Farmhouse Evanston is a farm-to-table restaurant located in downtown Evanston. Its goal is to feature fresh food from the Midwest with an ever-changing seasonal menu. The also have a good list of local beers on tap and offer plenty of Read more…
The Little Goat Diner, located in the West Loop, is an upscale take on the classic American diner. At lunchtime, it is crowded, noisy and full of great food! The servers were a little slow, but overall, we loved the Read more…
March 8, 2018 MingHin never disappoints. On this visit, we decided to go with soup and appetizers. As usual, it was Won Ton for Theresa and Hot and Sour for Tom. Both were good, but Tom promised to try something different Read more…
Wow! Not since Schaller’s Pump (unfortunately now closed) have we been to such an old school place. Charlie Beinlich’s looks like it is right out of the 1950’s, when it opened. We found a table, peered across the room to Read more…