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News Thu Dec 18 2008
Mmm, Midweek Links & Drinks
• Get a coupon for $1 oatmeal at Jamba Juice [via]
• The Stew's Christopher Borrelli loves The Meatloaf Bakery, despite the ludicrous prices.
Chicago Mag has The Bristol's Chris Pandel on the Front Burner,
• Tweet/Big Chick's INA's Ina Pinkney's take on comfort food: it's not just about the food.
• Mmm, bacon.
• And speaking of breakfast, Sky Full of Bacon checks out Shokolad, which is this week's "save this restaurant" in Time Out.
• Tales of restaurants past: Schlogl's and its literary roundtable.
• Chicago Gluttons enjoy a little Spaggia.
• Hotel restaurant news: 312 Dining Diva gets some early info about Chef Scott Walton's Market House in the Streeterville DoubleTree Inn, while Dish talks to Todd Stein, who's opening a couple places in the yet-to-open theWit in Gold Coast.
• L2O Blog gives the drummer dishwasher some.
• Edibility tells you where to get your snobby foodstuffs.
• Dining Examiner points to places to eat while holiday shopping.
• I'm a fan of Elizabites' "On the Table" series, where she shows how a restaurant's table is set when you arrive -- most recently, Province and The Publican.
Drink links after the jump.
• Trader Vic's is open! Chicagoist has some photos, while Phil Vettel visits and finds it low-key, and pairs his visit with a review of Tiki Terrace in Des Plaines.
• Does your tolerance go down as you get older, or do you just binge drink less?
• An ode to Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda. (Can't say I share the enthusiasm.)
• Learn to make beer or wine at BevArt.
• Just Grapes Wine Blog finds one nice thing to say about Rod Blagojevich: at least he made it easy for Illinoisans to buy wine.
• There is indeed dissonance reading "Qu'est-ce que C'est" at the beginning of an explanation of horchata and tamarindo, but that's just what the post series is called.
• Chicagoist's beer of the week is Flossmoor Station's Collaborative Evil.
Eddie Lakin / December 18, 2008 3:59 PM
thanks. great list of entries there. appreciate you doing the legwork.