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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.

Between our second Eberron campaign and Blood Lords, we had a brief foray into Paranoia: Red. It was an interesting TTRPG that sounded up our alley, but ended up being a bad fit for the group.

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.

In one of my DnD campaigns, our mascot is a goblin we adopted early on. He’s a big fan of coffee, so on a lark, I google image searched “goblin coffee” for something funny to put in a scheduling email.

I was surprised to find officially-licensed Pathfinder coffee offered by Geek Grind Coffee.

Colectivo is hands-down my favorite coffee shop. Even before they opened a location in town, we were buying their beans at the grocery store.

I picked up a bag of their seasonal Java Ciparay for the weekend. I had not tried this blend yet. The beans were roasted and packaged the day before I bought them.