Someone wrote: : Can anyone give report on following and would it be a good place to take a : client. Here is a synopsis I posted last month re: Crofton on Wells. We *almost* went to Blackbird because the hype was as high as it was for COW. I'm glad we chose COW but I'd still like to try Blackbird... skip the part about Okno since it wouldn't be a real "client" type dinner. --------------------------begin enc----------------------- I thought I'd post a quick synopsis of our recent weekend in Chicago. That night our friends took us to Okno on Milwaukee. Read an on-line description of the place at Metromix- I won't try to do it here. It was really cool and funky. Kinda place that exists for a few years for novelty and then goes away when the fad wears off. Except that this place had great food for the most part. We had two great appetizers- smoked trout tamales (spicy) with mushrooms and a spinach salad with wood-roasted tomatoes, truffle oil and a goat cheese fondue on top. I think this salad was the single best thing we ate in Chicago. I will have cravings for it for the rest of my life. For dinner wife unit and I split a whole-day striped bass from Virginia. It was extremely fresh, moist. It was roasted and served with ginger rice, a side of vinegar flavored vegetables- it was huge and yummy. One of our friends had a tuna dish that's always on the menu incredibly good and the other had a pork loin dish that was pretty good. Okno was a good find- very unique in the atmosphere department (a deejay for gawdsakes!) and good food to boot. Wine is a rip-off- but what's new in restaurants? Saturday night we went to Crofton on Wells. Now THIS was a treat. White bean/garlicky soup, vegetable napoleon appetizer, seared Ahi tuna for the wife and I had pan roasted sea scallops on a bed of turnip puree with sage and garlic. Everything we tasted was great, the service was warm and attentive (little slow on the water glass refills) and the wine list was dynamite and very fairly priced. We missed Number 23 from the Bulls being there by 2 nights. Shoot- he probably would have sent us over dessert or something. C on W is one of the better meals Ive had in a restaurant in years. eth
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