Tuesday, May 19, 2009

LET'S EAT

I was reading my niece's blog Dine-o-meter and she sure brought back a lot of memories of great eating places in Chicago. When I first moved up to Northern Minnesota that was the thing I missed most was a decent place to eat out. The world has been taken over my fast food and since we live very near a college town there is nothing BUT fast food. A few of the bars around town are known for great hamburgers or ribs but that's it. We have a couple really expensive places to dine but I think a dinner for two without drinks that totals over 100.00 is way out of line.

I guess what I really miss is the ethnic variety from Chicago. Italian, Bohemian, Greek, Mexican and the list goes on and on. Every shopping plaza has a Greek Mom and Pop restaurant where the food for all meals was reasonable with good size portions but if you wanted really authentic Ethnic cuisine there was Greek town on Halstead, or the old Italian neighborhood on Ashland, the Bohemian area in Berwyn or on Ogden Ave in Lyons and Brookfield. The breaded shrimp at a little place off 26th and Pulaski called Troha (not sure of that spelling) that had to die for breaded shrimp and not what they serve in most places, a tiny popcorn kernel of shrimp with a pound of breading these where a whole shrimp with a very light breading. Not even sure if they are there anymore. I could go on and on but I will only make myself hungry. Maybe when we head up to Alaska this summer we can find some good food along the way.

1 comment:

  1. Oh I so agree! My friends are sick of me saying that the food at a restaurant is not "Chicago good." There have been some relocated Chicagoans down here that have tried to recreate the Chicago flavor but none successfully. That's why I had to learn how to cook. Such a trade off. Tennessee and Minnesota = not the best food but less traffic and more trees.

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