But you should find me on fedi for the up-to-the-minute stuff.
The CH Distillery purchased Jeppson's, the makers of Chicago's finest product, a few years ago. I've walked by their taproom a lot, but I've never been in there, expecting it to just be the same bottles I can get at the store and a couple bar snacks.
But no: for some reason, they do omakase. And it's really quite something!
At $WORK, my team has been officially using Homestead since ~2017 as our development environment. This is a VM managed with Vagrant, and that's become a problem when we issue people newer macbooks. So I've been evaluating a new first-ish party solution: Laravel Herd Pro.
I felt burned out on GW2 in the wakes of WvW restructuring and Janthir, so I've been playing a lot of Warframe lately instead.
The Alinea Group's baby tasting menu place, Next, is doing tribute menus this year. Julia Child and Bobby Flay aren't that interesting, but I wanted to check out the Charlie Trotter menu. So: here it is!
An old friend came to town, and they wanted to check out Indienne. I'd been in May for the vegetarian menu, so this time, I had their non-veg option.
I had a planned visit to Atelier last week. But, an opportunity presented itself: Chef Hunter's Sunday supper club was back, so I had to book that too. Here's a post with both Atelier's early fall menu, plus the supper!
The FatBearWeek.org team is usually a little slow for updating their site, so here's a gallery of the bear photos from the beginning & end of the season.
This should help you fill out your Fat Bear Week bracket!
The who's who of Chicago food critics have all been checking out Cariño's tasting menus. They offer a couple: the chef's counter, a slightly abbreviated version of the same menu in the dining room, and late-night taco omakase. It's all South American flavours, making it a unique entry into our fine dining scene.
The Fat Bear Week bracket reveal has been delayed to October 1st due to an incident at the river today. This post will summarize the situation in one convenient spot.
⚠️ This post will contain graphic bear-on-bear violence. ⚠️
I'm reading Titandeath, so I felt inspired to do some mech stuff. Mechabellum is an autobattler that just left early access, so I picked it up for $10 to check out.
