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The food we love!

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  1. spatny
    Member

    Try the Irish Times Friday fish fry, in Brookfield. The Epicurean Hungarian restaurant on Roosevelt west of Mannheim. (Gypsys from Cleveland - on fri-Sat-Sun - nights!) Zupa on Ogden - you can walk there, get Balkan food and watch Serbian TV with guys with one eyebrow.

    Posted Wednesday Jan 31, 2007 10:42 #

  2. Catherine
    Member

    Thanks Spatny. Yes, Zupa, isn't that the place with the fireplace? Since we're Irish, we are willing to enter into Irish cuisine! Do we have any decent Italian and Chinese around here? I used to eat at the Chinese place on DesPlaines, but the air became stuffy. (I hate a restaurant that doesn't smell fresh.)

    Posted Wednesday Jan 31, 2007 15:58 #

  3. spatny
    Member

    I never saw a fireplace in Zupa, but after a few rounds with the natives I had to walk home. I had Cantonese food I liked in LaGrange, go there sometimes for lunch. Italian places I go to are on Oakley and Near North. Wait - Ralph Harast , my neighbor and VP of the Olmsted Society works part time at Cafe de Luca on Madison in Forest Park and he, and some other people I know, say it is good.

    Posted Wednesday Jan 31, 2007 20:39 #

  4. spatny
    Member

    Catherine - go to the buffet at Bobak's market, either out on County Line just south of I-55 or on Archer 1 block east of Cicero. It's a real trip. Go hungry. You can't fail to be amused.

    Posted Wednesday Jan 31, 2007 20:42 #

  5. Catherine
    Member

    Yes, I like Oakley too; Bruna's I think, eat in the bar. I will check out Cafe de Luca. I am not real keen on East European or German food. I was once in Moscow and ate at McDonalds daily (I knew it was clean!)

    Posted Thursday Feb 1, 2007 08:25 #

  6. spatny
    Member

    Catherine - my RBHS classmate Bob Benedetti grew up on Oakley and wrote a charming book about it - The Long Italian Goodby - I gave a copy to the Riverside library - check it out. Last summer Bob came to the Festa there and read from the book and talked about old times with people who live there now and old timers. It was very nostalgic.

    McDonalds in Moscow? You should have gone up Tverskaya to the Georgian places. Really good food - lots of thugs and molls - plenty to drink - kills all the germs.

    Posted Thursday Feb 1, 2007 10:40 #

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