Pod looks and feels like a spaceship. It looks like one because of all the bright and colorful lights, the many flatscreen televisions playing weird Japanese action shows, and the servers in their…
It’s true, what the other reviewers have said… Country Road Cafe really could be one of the greatest breakfast places in the entire country. Sure, people get in line for popular breakfast joints…
I was on a cross-country road trip and stopped in Chicago for a couple of weeknights so, naturally, I consulted Yelp when deciding how to spend my nightlife budget. Ten Cat popped up as the highest…
I love aquariums. I don’t know when it started or why, but I do. Well, perhaps it started when I was just a wee little one at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Ahh, yes, but I do believe my love…
My first experience eating Ethiopian cuisine can be summed up with one word… Whatever. I was all sorts of excited to go to this restaurant… Well, I was mostly excited just to try…
Swung by GNA for dinner last night around 8pm and the place wasn’t exactly bumping… Considering that the food was affordable and tasty, though, I don’t think it was because of any shortcomings of…
This is a Starbucks, so it is more or less the same as any other Starbucks, with two wonderful exceptions: (1) They have a Drive Through. (2) The iced coffee I received was STRONG. It tasted more…
My friend and I were walking down Irving Park and he spotted a sign in the window of Fast Super Burrito advertising breakfast burritos for $3 or $4 or $5… It doesn’t really matter how much they…
You need to be a serious chip stacker to move beyond appetizers at The Inlet. Fortunately for those of us who aren’t stacking chips and writing checks, they have excellent apps, with the quesadilla…
On one hand, Jon & Patty’s has good food and great service… On the other, it is small and cramped and it stops serving breakfast at 11am. For me, the downsides didn’t overcome the upsides. First of…