A day of untold misfortune...
Well, not really. I actually had a pretty good day, and I kept forgetting it was Friday the Thirteenth.
Homeowners' Association Board meeting, read water meters, shop for some random computer miscellany, mess with the new(ish) workhorse color printer, and I guess that's about it. Seemed like more while I was doing it.
By way of "old business", the name of the place from yesterday was "Scoozi!" It's on Huron (410 West, to be exact), just West of Orleans (where I used to work at Tripp-Lite before they moved to the old Spiegel campus, and the place on Orleans, (500 I think) got converted into condos. I always thought that building would make for good condos, guess I must have the real estate developer's eye. It's in turn right across from CDW. Anyway, I digress...) It's just West of Orleans, and just North of Ohio...which for some reason I was thinking was the Eisenhower, because of the very large on/off ramp thinger, which is more reminiscent of a highway ending than a mundane on/off ramp. Does that make sense?
Anyway, Scoozi! is in fact a Lettuce Entertain You enterprise, and both still seem to be around. My beloved Fettuccine Bolognese has evolved into a Tagliatelle Bologenese. I've never even heard of Tagliatelle, but then again, it seems that there are about fifteen billion types of pasta, all of which have proper Italian names, that I've never heard of. Take Gemelli, for example. This is my current favorite pasta, it's kind of like a closed cell...well not really closed, but tubular Rotini (I never know when/if you're supposed to capitalize pasta names.) Anyway, it's good stuff, check it out.
So back to Scoozi! one more time, and to wrap up, I suppose the prices seem to be pretty much what I remember them to be, so it's not by any means exorbitant. If you're in Chicago and in the mood for decent Italian, I highly recommend it, based on my handful of visits over 8-10 years ago. Cant' get more wholehearted or confident a recommendation as that, eh?
And finally, here's a look at the giant tomato I mentioned. See how it just sort of hovers, ready to take out the least-suspecting patron? Frightening.
Enjoy.
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Homeowners' Association Board meeting, read water meters, shop for some random computer miscellany, mess with the new(ish) workhorse color printer, and I guess that's about it. Seemed like more while I was doing it.
By way of "old business", the name of the place from yesterday was "Scoozi!" It's on Huron (410 West, to be exact), just West of Orleans (where I used to work at Tripp-Lite before they moved to the old Spiegel campus, and the place on Orleans, (500 I think) got converted into condos. I always thought that building would make for good condos, guess I must have the real estate developer's eye. It's in turn right across from CDW. Anyway, I digress...) It's just West of Orleans, and just North of Ohio...which for some reason I was thinking was the Eisenhower, because of the very large on/off ramp thinger, which is more reminiscent of a highway ending than a mundane on/off ramp. Does that make sense?
Anyway, Scoozi! is in fact a Lettuce Entertain You enterprise, and both still seem to be around. My beloved Fettuccine Bolognese has evolved into a Tagliatelle Bologenese. I've never even heard of Tagliatelle, but then again, it seems that there are about fifteen billion types of pasta, all of which have proper Italian names, that I've never heard of. Take Gemelli, for example. This is my current favorite pasta, it's kind of like a closed cell...well not really closed, but tubular Rotini (I never know when/if you're supposed to capitalize pasta names.) Anyway, it's good stuff, check it out.
So back to Scoozi! one more time, and to wrap up, I suppose the prices seem to be pretty much what I remember them to be, so it's not by any means exorbitant. If you're in Chicago and in the mood for decent Italian, I highly recommend it, based on my handful of visits over 8-10 years ago. Cant' get more wholehearted or confident a recommendation as that, eh?
And finally, here's a look at the giant tomato I mentioned. See how it just sort of hovers, ready to take out the least-suspecting patron? Frightening.
Enjoy.
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