Category: Desserts
-
Monday Munchies: Shell Station Stop
I go to the Shell Station right off 90/94 on Armitage. They carry my favorite ice cream snack: Good Humor chocolate chip cookie sandwiches. The key to the Good Humor ones versus, say, Mrs. Fields or something is the ring of chocolate chips around the outside of the ice cream. A radio show listener heard…
-
Buzz Coffee Roaster & Baker – Logan Square
Efficient floor plan at Buzz Coffee Roaster & Baker if you want to get some work done. There’s enough individual tables and long tables. Coffee was $4 but it was very good as far as coffee goes. If you’re really into coffee drinks or espresso they seem to really put the effort into all that…
-
Ders Shares Great America Memories
Before Anders Holm found fame on Workaholics, he was a kid growing up in Evanston. Like all northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin kids, he went to Great America…and had a likeness drawn. I’m sure he puked up a funnel cake after the Cajun Cliffhanger, too. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anders…
-
Monday Munchies: Ice Cream Pig in Wicker Park
Okay, I guess it’s technically Gelato. But you know what I meant. My cousin Sean’s GF Nicole wanted to check it out and get a strawberry pig at Eli’s Ark – It’s next to Paradise Park and a couple doors down from Piece pizza on North Avenue in Wicker Park. Animal cones are Eli’s specialty.
-
Daley Plaza Christkindlmarket Opens for the Season
Christkindlmarket is open for business in Daley Plaza. Naperville Christkindlmarket opens next week. There’s one in Milwaukee, too. Drinkers can chug German beers and hot spiced wine in heart-shaped mugs. Plenty to eat at Christkindlmarket, be it strudel, sausage or fried donut: Once you’ve inhaled a bratwurst and want to warm up a little, head…
-
Frango, Garrett’s, Harold’s, Connie’s & More in Pioneer Court Plaza
Pioneer Court Plaza – outside the old Tribune building and the Apple Store – is primed up for Saturday’s Disney Parade. Harold’s Chicken and Pink Taco brought food trucks to Lights Festival Lane: Connie’s Pizza tent offered personal pies: Garrett’s Popcorn and Frango Mints gave away free samples:
-
TBT: Say Thanks for Having Me – Send Portillo’s Italian Beef
Back in 2016, work offered to send me to Los Angeles to cover the Cubs and Dodgers in the NLCS. The radio station secured my press credentials for Dodger Stadium access. But it was last minute, so all the hotels were booked or ridiculously expensive. Radio doesn’t do pricey. I placed a call to my…
-
Allen Robinson II Needs a Funnel Cake
The man caught two touchdown passes from Mitch Trubisky in yesterday’s victory over the Lions. Help him out on his cheat day! He’s craving a funnel cake – if you know a good one near Vernon Hills respond to him on Twitter @AllenRobinson Is it a funnel cake place near Vernon hills? Asking for a…
-
Stop 50 Michiana Shores
Stop 50 Wood Fired Pizza dropped by with a plethora of pizza, breadsticks, meatballs and desserts. If you visit Long Beach or Michigan City often you’re probably familiar with the popular pizzeria. Chris, the owner, couldn’t have been nicer. Dude is a wood fired oven artist. For the sticks, they have fiery red sauce. It…
-
Eric Kush’s Wife Stephanie Made This Bears Apple Pie!
Holy Halas, delicious and inspiring! Like the Bears in the NFC North, this apple pie would take first place in any Midwest bake-off! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3WWO6hpf7/
greesechicago.wordpress.com 