On the prowl for coffee and a wireless internet connection in Wicker Park, where everything worth saying can be expressed with an ironic iPhone cover at beautifully sleek espresso bars such as La Colombe.
Fresh Garlic Swiss-Parmesan Pasta with Grilled Chicken
This quick and easy grilled chicken recipe – Fresh Garlic Swiss-Parmesan Pasta – has the sophistication of a dish you might find at an upscale restaurant, but the comfort-food cheesiness of a finessed mac and cheese.
Adamus, Chicago Loop Restaurant and Lounge, Serves Up New Fall Menu
Adamus … root word of “Adamantium” – the stuff that makes Wolverine invincible … is Adamus Chicago’s underground mutant hangout? MiLam ate and drank its way through the Silversmith Hotel, in the hopes of finding someone with superpowers.
Coffee, Free WIFI: Pilsen, Chicago
Looking for strong coffee, free WIFI, decent beardspotting, and reasonable co-working in a Pilsen, Chicago coffeehouse? Check out La Catrina, and don’t overlook their outdoor courtyard, in back. Afterward, grab some bacon candy at Honky Tonk. Free parking!
Fresh Garlic Parmesan Pasta
Fresh garlic parmesan pasta uses ingredients that are easy to come by and good for you. Plus, it comes together in a snap. One taste, and it’ll become your go-to “right now” dinner recipe.
Dolce Casa Cafe
Dolce Casa Cafe is a coffeehouse not far from the Brown Line, in Ravenswood, Chicago, where you can do some beardspotting, co-working, and/or studying. Thrusting your plug into the nearest electrical outlet might require maze-solving, but at least the hot spot and public restroom won’t present challenges.
Bacon Wrapped Meat Roll
The words “bacon wrapped meat roll” may send some of you into immediate foodgasm. Others of you with a modicum of decorum might rather that this post were about Rouleau de viande – which it is, so relax. Regardless of what you call it, what we’re talking about here is a meatloaf stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon.