User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 References: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: [email removed] Lines: 23 Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:9810 On 3/29/01 11:51 AM, in article 01c0b879$117667e0$63546bd1@renatta, "Xetr" Someone wrote: > Hello! > We are going to a concert this weekend at the Old Town School of Folk > Music, 4544 N. Lincoln (near Wilson). Can anyone suggest any good eateries > in that vicinity. > Xetr I'm a big fan of La Boca Della Verita (just up the street next door to the Davis Theatre). Haven't had a bad meal there yet and everyone is always quite friendly. The duck breast ravioli is quite good, and I believe is their signature dish. Should you go, be sure to save room for the raspberry-basil sorbet - it sounds odd but is delicious. Caf Selmarie also has good eats and the bonus of a fantastic assortment of pastries for dessert. (I'm still bummed out on the menu changes at the Daily Bar & Grill - used to have great comfort food and home-made ice cream. Now it seems that its just standard bar fare just like a thousand other places, although the pot pie is good)
Chicago, IL
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:36:35 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:9812 Xetr wrote: > > Hello! > We are going to a concert this weekend at the Old Town School of Folk > Music, 4544 N. Lincoln (near Wilson). Can anyone suggest any good eateries > in that vicinity. If you're going to see David Johanssen then I'll see you there. We're eating at the Chicago Brauhaus in Lincoln Square, just north of OTSOFM. Big food, big beer, the only place I've ordered steak tartare off of the menu. trent
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 04:09:51 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:9821 Someone wrote: > >On 3/29/01 11:51 AM, in article 01c0b879$117667e0$63546bd1@renatta, "Xetr" >Someone wrote: > >> Hello! >> We are going to a concert this weekend at the Old Town School of Folk >> Music, 4544 N. Lincoln (near Wilson). Can anyone suggest any good eateries >> in that vicinity. >> Xetr > >I'm a big fan of La Boca Della Verita (just up the street next door to the >Davis Theatre). Haven't had a bad meal there yet and everyone is always >quite friendly. The duck breast ravioli is quite good, and I believe is >their signature dish. Should you go, be sure to save room for the >raspberry-basil sorbet - it sounds odd but is delicious. > >Caf Selmarie also has good eats and the bonus of a fantastic assortment of >pastries for dessert. > >(I'm still bummed out on the menu changes at the Daily Bar & Grill - used to >have great comfort food and home-made ice cream. Now it seems that its just >standard bar fare just like a thousand other places, although the pot pie is >good) > Cy's Steak and Chop House is pretty good. Big place, friendly, good steaks, big drinks. Cy's Steak and Chop House 4138 N. Lincoln 773 - 404 - 5800 Best Greg
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:48:14 CST Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: == X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:48:14 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:9824 On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:36:33 -0600, Butch Patrick wrote: >I'm a big fan of La Boca Della Verita (just up the street next door to the >Davis Theatre). Haven't had a bad meal there yet and everyone is always >quite friendly. <snip> Butch, I am a fan of La Bocca Della Verita, both that and their sister restaurant Pizza DOC. The potential problem with La Boca is that it might be difficult to keep within Xetr's $25 per person price range. In addition to La Bocca and the other good suggestions that Xetr has received I would suggest Simplon Orient Express. Simplon Orient Express derives it's name from the train that runs from London to Istanbul and has dishes from many countries with an emphasis on Serbia. Simplon has an interesting family style dining option for $14 per person that offers a sampling of many dishes. I had originally gone there after reading a World Eats column about cevapcici which is a garlicky grilled sausage made with beef, lamb and/or veal, but have since gone back with my wife and friends for fun, casual meals. One of the charms of the place is the owner, who is very Old World European, and can be quite the raconteur. There is also music on the weekends and some weeknights. Speaking of cevapcici, the best cevapcici that I found were at Bosanski Okusi, which seems more like a place for Serbs to get together, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, than a restaurant, but nonetheless, has excellent cevapcici. They are served on a pita shaped slightly puffy bread with sour cream, red pepper spread (ajvar) and onions, slightly greasy, but very good. The other place that was mentioned in the article was Balkan Restaurant, but I have not been there as of yet. I have also purchased cevapcici at Lalich Delicatessen, a sausage shop on Lawrence and Joe's sausage on Western, they are excellent grilled over charcoal. Interestingly some cevapcici are made with a bit of baking soda and this will make them puff up when grilling. Be careful not to grill them too quickly, if they puff up and then deflate, so to speak, they can become quite dense and develop a slightly bitter taste. In this regard Joe's gets the nod, as they do not use baking soda in their cevapcici, though I believe baking soda is traditional. Enjoy, Gary Simplon Orient Express 4520 N Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL. 60625 773-275-0033 Bosanski Okusi 4603 N Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 773-506-2002 Balkan Restaurant 2321 W Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 773-878-7764 Lalich Delicatessen 4208 W Lawrence Ave. Chicago, IL 773-545-3642 Joe's Sausage Market 4452 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60625 773- 478-5443 La Bocca Della Verita 4618 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 773-784-6222 Pizza D.O.C. 2251 W Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 60625 773- 784-8777