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Recent Reviews
Re: “Xoco”
It took me so long to finally try it, I can't believe mine is the first review: all I can say is the food lives up to the hype!
Re: “Veggie Bite”
The "Italian Beef Melt" was a pretty good vegan unmeat sandwich. The seitan itself was tasty, but maybe a bit dry; overall, though, the over-generous mustardy barbecue sauce made the texture pretty good.
Re: “”
I'm not in that part of town too often, but finally made it up to Lake Side Cafe and found it well worth the trip. "Sausage" part of the Chicago Polish was *maybe* a bit dry, but still very good, and kraut and bun part were both excellent -- as were the accompanying salad and the gazpacho I had to start.
Re: “Cafe Nordstrom”
I had the "vine ripened vegetable salad" for lunch -- new since last time I was here. It was a big bowl of chopped vegetables, including tomato, cucumber, asparagus, artichoke, more -- with goat cheese and a thin crackery-and-cheese crouton sort of things: very good. $8.25 price maybe a bit high, but same could be said for most places in this part of town. Lemon bar for dessert was also good, but a bit too sweet for my taste.
Recent Comments
Re: “Feminism—and the trivial women who take it seriously”
The Media link in the drop down menu now goes to the right place. Thanks for the catch. (And let this example serve as a warning about the dangers of copy and paste.)
Re: “The Brand Brewing complex: To raze or not to raze?”
It just seems there's a general lack of creativity on the part of (big?) developers. This building could be repurposed in all kinds of interesting ways, including for retail. It seems developers too often prefer to demolish and start over, remaking the neighborhood in their image instead of trying to be part of the local culture.
Re: “Lake Michigan politely returns our trash”
Reminds me of Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics. In "Breaking News," among those "arrested in connection with 'Annoying The Nation'":
"People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter, not the council;"
"And a council worker who dropped litter."
Re: “I heard it on the train”
"End of the world" is also how my southbound #151 driver announced Union Station as we arrived there one evening early this summer.
Re: “Autre Monde: the "other world" in Berwyn”
It's about a half mile down Oak Park Avenue from the Oak Park Blue Line station, a pleasant walk in good weather.
Re: “Health: Does Coffee Make You Sleepy?”
@Vera T -- I've fixed the headline so it now reads, "Health: Does Coffee Make You Sleepy?" I've just checked the paper (Section 1, page 10 of the issue of May 25, 1990) and confirmed that the subject and verb were in agreement when the story ran in print. "Make"->"Makes" must have been a typo introduced in the digital archiving process. Anyway, thanks for catching it.
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