#food

You might have noticed that I enjoy fine dining, from the blog posts showing galleries of Fancy Food to the fedi live threads for Atelier visit #823.

Thattu, an Indian comfort food restaurant that opened about a year ago, announced a supper club earlier this month: they'll deliver a prix fixe menu to your door on the last Tuesdays.

For the traditional May celebrations, I visited both Atelier and Oriole last week for their spring tasting menus. We're at the very end of ramp season here in the midwest, and excitingly, both resturants managed to incorporate 'em into the menu.

Last year, Indienne became Chicago's first michelin-starred Indian resturant. They've been on my radar, and I've finally had an opportunity to drop in -- and let me start the post off by saying it was a fantastic experience. Indianne has made fancy-tasting-menu versions of dishes that are completely different from the original thing, but still capture all the flavours perfectly. And it's not always in a way you'd expect!

Over the last couple days, I've been showing a vistor around town. Naturally, this involved a lot of food -- but we did some other important Chicago activities like the architecture tour on the river.

I'd stopped making blog posts for tasting menus because it's a lot of work, but I want to get back to that. Here's my first tasting menu of 2024: the end-of-winter fare at Atelier in Lincoln Square.

I had to visit SF for a professional event at the Moscone center. I stayed in the Mission district. There wasn’t a ton of time to explore the city, but here’s what I did find time for!

We finally made it to Oriole tonight...

I’m writing down some notes on the menu for Thanksgiving 2022. I know a couple people would like to see what I’m doing, so I figured I’d post it here!

I had somehow missed the release of FEW‘s cold-cut bourbon in 2019. Fortunately, somebody notified me about it last month.