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Weekly Post 12/9/2019

Highlights:

  • Steak and Cigar night Round 6
  • Family Birthday Brunch
  • Great business lunch

LowLights:

  • Can’t drink like I used too

Goals for next week: Keep inviting people to business lunches.

This was an action-packed week with tons of lunches and dinner and things to celebrate. It wasn’t easy on the pocketbook but lots of fun and some action items to follow up with that should lead to greener pastures hopefully in early 2020.

We celebrated the wife’s birthday with lunch at a new spot in the west river north area called Pacific Standard Time. It had a very west coast feel to the interior which wasn’t overdone and overall it was very pleasing to the eye and had a great contrast with the grey Chicago winter weather that has now settled in for the rest of the year. The brunch menu has the usual staple items that were decently priced for a river north restaurant. 

I ordered the steak and eggs, always nice to have a breakfast steak in my opinion. The highlight of the meal was the hot sauce they gave with the eggs and it was liquid hot magma. Passing this around the table to see who was brave enough to try and watch their face melt after only ingest a small was too funny.

The last big meal of the week was at GT Prime for the 6th semi Quarterly Steak and Cigar night. There will be a full recap post on this meal that will be published shortly that will give a full break down of the most expensive steak I’ve ever eaten. With all the steak, bourbon and cigars mixed with a late-night, I paid the price for it on Friday morning through the early afternoon. I can’t swig them back like I used too, and for the most part, I’m kinda happy about that. I’ve always been a big drinker and now that my life priorities have taken my attention elsewhere not going out and getting blasted every weekend night has been a hard adjustment but one for the better. Both for the here and now and the future. I will now need to learn drink at a pace that is new to me but this will be a necessary tactic to have when I’m out with boys for fun night out and not have to pay for it dearly the next day.

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Weekly Post 10/28/2019

Highlights:

  • No work this weekend
  • Fun brunch on a rainy Saturday

Lowlights:

  • Bears lost 3 in a row now

Goals for next week: Keep trying to get rid of these work day Mochas

It was a nice low key week. I could have done without the cold rain during the weekend. Still managed to make it to Brunch despite the weather. This weekend we went to Tavern on Rush for a boozy brunch. Not gonna lie this place had some weak ass Mochas, so I guzzled mine down in 3 gulps and went straight to the beer before my food even came. In case you are wondering Heineken and french toast paired beautifully together. We followed up Brunch with some beers at my Brothers’ new spot downtown to hide from the cold rain. College football was on and the rain never stopped and we never left the couch.

I should try and purposefully plan some low effort weekends to use the off days to recharge my battery. Busy weeks seem to compound that tiredness that creeps in during the week. Recovery needs to start being a bigger priority now that my age gets up in value.

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The Duck Inn Restaurant Review

I’ve been going to this place for a while now is one of my favorite places to bring friends and family for fun and it’s always a very entertaining menu that goes without saying features duck.  This was also the first place I was open to trying duck,  I’m not usually open to trying new types of food.  That just shows how impressive this restaurant is.

The Location of The Duck Inn is situated between the I-55 interstate and the south branch of the Chicago River in a pretty established industrial area. This place is a diamond in the rough,  its lighted windows and a brightly lit painted namesake of the restaurant.

When you walk into the place you enter directly into the bar area that has a mini tub in the nearest corner.  The bathtub brings you into the era of bathtub gins and prohibition cocktails.  Thier bartenders have been top notch every time still make consistent cocktails over the past years.  a majority of their drinks feature an egg white base for a different flavor and viscosity profile than typically found in the usual cocktails menus.

Not being the biggest fan of the ultra fancy intricate cocktails, I almost always order an Old Fashioned.  The Duck Inn old-fashioned is the bar that I judge all other old-fashioned on.  At home my OFs are made to mimic The Duck Inns; they are THAT good.  It is not just liquor, the techniques, or the environment that make this cocktail so great its the full composition of all parts that make 2+2=5.

The service is always very attentive and there always another drink ready for when your glass is 20% full.  Staff always seems to be a fun energetic group that are welcome to walk you through the menu and tell you their favorites, but there really is no bad choice at the Duck Inn.

Must Haves:

  • Duck Wings
  • Chochalet Binegtes

 

 

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Leghorn Chicken Restaurant Review

Leghorn Chicken

This review is of the River North Location @

600 N. Lasalle ST.

Chicago, IL 60654

(312) 944-4444

They have 2 locations in total FYI.

Price Range $12-$13 a person

This was a great lunch spot. Food tasted and looked great. My favorite part was the staff, they were so accommodating to me and my guests.  Plus, they even let me try their awesome Umami fries.

I built my own Chicken sandwich (a must.) My choices were:

  • Chicken breast
  • Not hot sauce * I’m a wuss when it comes to hot stuff*
  • Biscuit
  • Buttermilk Ranch Verde sauce

For a side, I got the Umami Fries, and to drink was Custom mixed Arnold Palmer.

The chicken was a thicker cut and fit underneath the Biscuit with just enough overhang.  It was a very good meat to biscuit ratio, that never made my mouth feel overly dry.  The fries were dusted with a bunch of spices that elevated the entire meal for me.  The fries did not need any ketchup at all, but I tried it anyway.  The fries definitely need any ketchup, but I suspect they made their own ketchup which tasted better than the standard ketchup you usually see on the table.

When I ordered my Ice tea and lemonade the cashier told me that was a good choice.  He went back to the fridge grabbed 2 larger liquid Tupperware containers, one with lemonade and the other with Ice Tea.  As he poured his custom blend you good tell this was good drink and oh my it was really good.

For a fast-casual restaurant, this is got to be in my top 3 favorites.

Go check it out!