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Someone wrote:
>1) A good Mexican, Italian, Thai or Chinese restaurant. Frontera Grill
>is closed on Sundays, otherwise that would have been our destination.
>Reasonably priced... under $25?
Mexican: I like Perez, about a mile west of downtown on Randolph and Peoria. Check their hours, though--they usually close by 7 p.m. Alternatively, ride the #26 bus out to Little Village near 26th and Kedzie and go to the lunch counter at the Aguascalientes supermarket.
Italian--too numerous to mention. Hit Zagat or Metromix.com and see what you find. To keep it cheap, take the brown line north to Wellington and go to Pompeii, right near the station.
>2) Good margaritas
You could do worse than Cesar's on N. Clark St., just east of the Belmont red line stop, also reachable from downtown on the #22 bus. Food's OK too. Very busy on weekend nights, so get there early.
>Prefer not to stray too far from the North Michigan area
You didn't ask, but you might as well check out Cafe Iberico for tapas at 739 N. La Salle St., near Chicago Ave. It's right close by you, and I suspect that most folks who like lounging over margaritas and mexican food also like lounging over sangria and tapas. Reasonably priced and yummy.Chicago, IL
A trip to Chicago on Sunday. In search of...
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:12:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020318 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:17417 --------------000006060809030506020909 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ixcapuzalco 2919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, (773) 486-7340. a great place. As far as Arun's... not worth it. VERY expensive, and not impressive, I thought. Deb David S. wrote: >Someone wrote: > > >>There is a place on north Milwaukee Ave that a protege of Rick Bayless >>opened that my wife reports is quite good. I can't remember the name. >> >> > >Ixchpulzaco (the spelling is horribly mangled, but something like >that) - Milwaukee couple of blocks north (northwest?) of Diversey. > >Same guy also openned up a place on Clark just north of the river - >Chilpancingo, or something like that. > >Haven't been to the latter, but the former is outstanding - mostly >based on a terrific "mole sauce of the day" concept, applied to >chicken, duck, etc. > --------------000006060809030506020909 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> </head> <body> <pre wrap=""><font face="verdana,tahoma,arial,helvetica" size="4"><b>Ixcapuzalco</b></font><br> 2919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, (773) 486-7340. a great place. <br>As far as Arun's... not worth it. VERY expensive, and not impressive, I thought.<br><br>Deb<br><br> </pre> <br> <br> David S. wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:[email removed]"> <pre wrap="">On 3 Aug 2002 01:51:56 -0500, ktone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto: ">< ></a> wrote:<br><br><br></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">There is a place on north Milwaukee Ave that a protege of Rick Bayless<br>opened that my wife reports is quite good. I can't remember the name.<br><br><br></pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----><br>Ixchpulzaco (the spelling is horribly mangled, but something like<br>that) - Milwaukee couple of blocks north (northwest?) of Diversey.<br><br>Same guy also openned up a place on Clark just north of the river -<br>Chilpancingo, or something like that.<br><br>Haven't been to the latter, but the former is outstanding - mostly<br>based on a terrific "mole sauce of the day" concept, applied to<br>chicken, duck, etc.<br><br></pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------000006060809030506020909--
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:16:37 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:16:37 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:17407 Someone wrote: > >There is a place on north Milwaukee Ave that a protege of Rick Bayless >opened that my wife reports is quite good. I can't remember the name. > > Ixchpulzaco (the spelling is horribly mangled, but something like that) - Milwaukee couple of blocks north (northwest?) of Diversey. Same guy also openned up a place on Clark just north of the river - Chilpancingo, or something like that. Haven't been to the latter, but the former is outstanding - mostly based on a terrific "mole sauce of the day" concept, applied to chicken, duck, etc.