I just don't want to look back and think "I could've eaten that."
Cafe Tola feels like your local college-town stoner Mexican joint, but if hipsters and artists designed the place. Students work the registers, hip hop blares over the speakers, and the aroma of fresh tortillas, cilantro, and al pastor permeate the air.
Cafe Tola is unique in its flexibility – it’s…
The polar vortex let up for about six hours. So I did what any Chicagoan would do when the sun peeks through the icy clouds for a few moments. I went and got ice cream.
There are those places in every city that are known by locals – legendary in…
Now this is a creative dessert.
Here’s what you’re in for:
You pick out a flavor of giant popsicle. They have the usual suspects like strawberry and cookies & cream along with more exotic flavors like green tea.
They roll your popsicle around in toppings of your choice. Sprinkles, crushed…
Enter the restaurant, hipsters I view
Sit at the bar, party of two
Flavorful edamame, delicious Japanese spice
Large bowl of Ramen, at an above-average price
Tender pork was the star, the umami was strong
90’s hip hop on the radio, that one Twista song
A fine bowl of soup, in a comfortable room
When I…
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During a particularly gluttonous season ages ago, in what I now realize was a cruel twist of fate, my former roommates and I discovered Crisp.
It was the beginning of the end for us I suppose, as our feral Crisp addiction led to many a night of greasy fingers, sauce-stained…