In honor of my very first cooking class last night, I thought we’d talk about the food we had in Chicago today. It is a delicious city!
Deep dish pizza of course is a very big deal in Chicago. And everyone there is passionately for or against different places to have it. It would seem that Lou Malnati’s and Giordano’s were the two that came up most. The cabbie said Lou Malnati’s, the next guy said Giordano’s, etc. etc. So we ended up trying Giordano’s and it was incredibly good. So different from pizza you normally encounter.
We also knew we had to try a Chicago style hotdog, so Portillo’s was one of our stops.
This place was crazy chaotic, with people yelling out your orders and crowds and tons and tons of tables. It’s actually set up more like a food court almost which kind of confused me at first. It was not a place to go for a relaxing meal. But the hotdog was good and glad we had that experience!
We quite accidentally stumbled onto Sprinkles Cupcakes (the awesome building caught my eye!). And look at the line!
These cupcakes + their branding were delicious!
And one of the last things I have to tell you about is Chocolate at the Pen. Because it was fancier and therefore my purse was tinier I don’t have good pics, but we snapped a few Iphone pictures on R’s phone I’ll rustle up for tomorrow.
but, wow.
Literally tables and tables covered in desserts of all shapes and sizes. And the best part was the chocolate almond martini. I’d drink another one of those right now and it’s 7AM :-)
Another place we hit that we weren’t expecting to like so much was XOCO, a Rick Bayless restaurant. It was really really good Mexican food and a menu that wasn’t something I’d come across really (and I’ve been to Mexico lol) – there were no “fajitas” and “quesadillas” on the menu.
So that about wraps up the food re-cap! I hope you enjoyed and you’re not too hungry. I’m off to a day of meetings + the dentist, yippee!
