Chicago Weekend (Day 4)

Our final day in Chicago. Turns out that Leslie was also in town visiting friends this weekend. So we met up and had brunch at Lula Cafe.

Mimosas!

Leslie ordered the graham cracker griddle cakes. It was like having smores for breakfast.

I ordered the chorizo and new potato hash. Delicious!

After we ran an errand at the Art Institute, we drove 23 miles out of Chicago to Arlington Heights to go to Mitsuwa Chicago. I think it is the biggest Japanese Market in the Midwest. I really miss all my markets out here.

We had a late lunch at the food court.  I ordered from Santouka. The usual.

Chicago Weekend (Day 3)

We visited the Museum of Cotemporary Art Chicago. The museum store is supposed to be the best store in the US.

We started our day at a brunch place called Nana's.  Adam's huervo rancheros

my nanadict

table scene

my bloody

i took adam to see the bean/cloud. he was pretty pissed because i took too many photos of him.

Chicago Weekend (Day 2) continued...

The reason why we came out to Chicago was for a Guided by Voices show. They played at a pretty cool venue called the Metro. It kind of reminded me of the Troubadour in LA. Ian said we could kill two birds with one stone (it is really close to Wrigley Stadium).

Guided by Voices

This is their 3rd encore. It was awesome.

Adam and the die hard fans were singing their hearts out.

here are some reviews of the show:
brooklynvegan
timeoutchicago

Chicago Weekend (Day 2)

We visited the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday. They had a special Lichtenstein exhibit.

The Art Institute's most famous painting is probably Seurat's Sunday Afternoon.

Ruscha

Rothko (you know, I didn't start to appreciate Rothko until I started taking Graphic Design classes).

I made Adam go to all the intelligentsia coffess in Chicago. 

My latte

Chicago Weekend (Day 1)

Adam and I drove to Chicago for a long weekend last week. It is about 260 miles from Mount Pleasant (closer than LA to LV).

The husband got hungry after a couple of hours so we stopped at a cute town in Michigan called Benton Harbor.  We had a lunch

Once we arrived in Chicago, Adam wanted to eat again so we had a snack and cocktails at Chez Joel.

Cocktails

French onion soup

The Chicago Skyline

Boxes of cereal at Ian's.  He lives alone.

Ian took us on a tour of Logan's Square (hip neighborhood of Chicago).  It was awesome to catch up. 

travel: Chicago

we are taking a roadtrip to chicago this weekend for a guided by voices show.  guided by voices is to adam as radiohead is to me, well at least in the 90s-00s.  adam has seen them many times in many states.  this will be my first GBV show. so excited.  do you think it will be bro-ey?<- not a word.

we'll be making pit stops at superdawg and mitsuwa chicago.  better make a list.

superdawg

I bought Adam the 1000 things to do before you die book for his birthday. It lists places to visit, eat, etc. I thought it would be fun book to have especially since we have been fortunate to travel the past few years. One of the things to do in Chicago is to visit Superdawg. It has been a Chicago institution since 1948 and one of the last original drive-in's left in the US.Mascot's of Superdawg..Maurie and Flaurie.
Retro containers..
my whoopskidawg
Adam's superdawg with all the fixin's



It was fun. Can't wait to do it again!

lou malnati's

lunch on day two was at lou malnati's. lou malnati's is credited for the chicago deep dish pizza. Chicago style has a pie crust, a thick later of cheese, homemade sausage, tomato sauce and topped with cheese. Maybe I will try to make it one day. It takes about 40 minutes to make the pizza.

I told Adam that I have never had a great New York pizza. I also asked Adam which type of pizza he preferred New York v. Chicago. He prefers New York style.

MK

Our first reservation in chicago was at MK. I just realized that I was pretty hungry and didn't take any photo's of the first part of the meal. Adam ordered the summer tasting menu. The first course was a cucumber gazpacho. I had the octopus as a starter and Adam's dad ordered kumamoto oysters.
This is Adam's second course, the "surf and turf." It's a crudo of sockeye salmon, kinnikinnick farm radish charred carpaccio of filet mignon.

Heirloom tomato's
Adam's dad ordered the market fish which was the red snapper..
I ordered the special Halibut. So delicious.
Mediteranean fish...
My dessert is called two bananas walk into a bar. It is a banana souffle cake, toasted marshmallow fluff, macadamia nut crumble, dark chocolate sauce and malted banana ice cream. delish!

M K Restaurant

868 North Franklin Street

Chicago, IL 60610-3114




MK was by far the best restaurant we ate at during our trip in Chicago. Everything we ordered was excellent.