Archive for the 'food' Category

DIY Restaurant Reviews

Friday, October 10th, 2003

addyourown.com is a very nice site that allows people to submit their favorite restaurants and reviews. The really nice feature is that everything is completely editable (ala Wiki) and you can add to/modify anyone else’s information that they submitted.
Right now, addyourown.com covers New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The site just [...]

European Fanta vs. American Fanta

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003

So sitting in front of me is a 20 oz bottle of Day-Glo Orange Fanta that somehow tempted it’s way out of the vending machine and onto my desk. I knew what I was getting into when purchasing said Fanta, but a Coke didn’t sound good right now (and then vending machine only has [...]

Cooking Schools in Chicago

Wednesday, August 13th, 2003

Part of me has really been wanting to go to Cooking School for the last couple years.
The Chicago Tribune put out a nice list of Cooking Schools in the Chicago-Area ranging from places to take a class all the way to hard-core-full-on schools… Really good reference for anyone somewhat interested in attending [...]

What happens on July 11?

Friday, July 11th, 2003

It’s free Slurpee day today at 7-11! Go get one and mix it up suicide style! :)

Search The Health Inspections Of Your Favorite Chicago Restaurants

Thursday, June 12th, 2003

Wow, this is cool…
See how your favorite restaurants in Chicago are doing on their Health Inspections online (if you dare)!!! :)
http://w20.cityofchicago.org/health/search/inspection.jsp

A Strange Concoction

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

You know those drinks you used to make in college where you combined a bunch of different liquors to get something that tastes like something else (for example, a “Flaming Dr. Pepper” or a “Long Island Iced Tea“)?
Well, I just how invented a new one that just doesn’t have the same effect… Drink some [...]

Cafeteria Employees Love Me

Thursday, May 29th, 2003

I don’t know what it is, but no matter what cafeteria I go to (whether it was in school or the one downstairs in the office building I’m working at), the employees love me. It must be my magnetic personality or something… :)
Seriously though I tend to befriend the employees with my smalltalk or [...]

Cough Medicine w/ Caffeine?

Monday, May 19th, 2003

avoid the new “LiveWire” Mountain Dew… Not good at all… blech.

Next Time I’m In San Francisco

Monday, April 28th, 2003

I need to go on the Mission Taco Crawl… This might be worth a trip in itself!

It’s the “Little Things”

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003

a bowl of clam chowder from an Aramark Cafeteria just isn’t the same as a bowl of clam chowder from Legal Seafoods…
I just realized this today at lunch… :)