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.
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.
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.
Atelier suffered some damage in one of the big storms last month, so they had to close for a few weeks to make repairs. They brought back their quarantine-era weekend takeout, which we signed up for straight away.
And, yesterday was our monthly Thattu supper club delivery, so this post is a double-feature.
I wasn't planning on picking it up, but after watching Luetin09's Titus deep dive, I was a little interested. I wasn't feeling GW2 this weekend, so I grabbed it on Friday night and ran through the campaign.
⚠️ This post will contain spoilers! ⚠️
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.
The next GW2 expansion, Janthir Wilds, is launching soon. I've posted a bunch of stuff about SotO on fedi, but I should organize my thoughts about that in one spot. Fair warning: most of my thoughts are rather critical.
There will be spoilers for the SotO story in this post!
I got back into 40k when Rogue Trader came out last year. I had some ultramarines and necrons back in the early 00s, but what I really liked was the Black Library: inquisitors and space wolves and regular-old guardsmen being ground up into nothing to keep the machinery of a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy running for one more day.
