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they don't have either kind of burrito there
but they do have fattey pizzas

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO HOT DOGS, MAKE SURE TO EAT DA HOT DOGS.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

specifically, go to hot doug's on california.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

go to the museum of science and industry

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i have made mental notes about hot doug's so many times now.
it is becoming my grail.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the encased meat emporium. get the duck fat fries, so so so good.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

see whats playin at da Neo-Futurists'

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i have made mental notes about hot doug's so many times now.
it is becoming my grail.

Dude it is my white whale. I was sooo close to making it happen on Saturday, but I just couldn't close the deal. Maybe in Feb.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"either kind of burrito"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

COUNTRY AND WESTERN

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(those are the two kinds of burritos we grew up with in providence.)

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

chicago has better burritos than anywhere on the east coast, that's for hell sure.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm told there's a good burrito place on belmont

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i go to chicago

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish to get the hell out of chicago.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a good burrito place EVERYWHERE, more or less. (I mean geez right now I'm having pangs for the enchiladas from Flash Taco, and that's just a fast-food full-of-drunks corner stand.)

Beware the fat pizzas. In my world there is such a thing as pizza and there is such a thing as lasagna, and we don't need some weird cheesy hybrid blurring the distinction.

Totally get up on those Vienna Beef classics, though, and savor the cucumber.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a good burrito place EVERYWHERE, more or less.

Yeah, I was going to say this. Belmont is a major street, there's probably dozens of good taquerias on Belmont.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

man, i LOVE flash taco. it's so perfectly situated, i've left shows at at least 3 different venues during boring bands and brought back flash taco. sometimes you just can't wait for the tamale dude, y'know?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

you can ALWAYS wait for the tamale dude if Flash Taco is yr only option. fucking gross, man. MAN.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

you're out of your mind.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally out of mind. They might just be ladling it out for drunkards, but those Enchiladas Flash, with the chorizo, just ... ridiculous tasty.

The weird part is that my memory-layout of good Mexican in Chicago is just built on a million mid-sized anonymous burrito places, all of them delicious, just up and down Western or Ashland or dotted through Wrigleyville or whatever -- nothing I could name offhand, I guess. And then a couple more sit-down spots in Pilsen, and then whatever tacquerias I happened to be around a lot (like the taqueria Michoacan II around Irving Park and ... Sheridan? ... where I accidentally ate half a tacoful of BRAINS num num).

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Flash Taco only stands out in my mind because their vegetarian burritos come with grilled peppers and onions. I also like the black-bean (instead of refried) option at Picante, although they're pretty overpriced compared to the plenty decent anonymous places with names like La Fiesta Mexicana and Famous Taco Burrito King or whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

taco veloz on chicago (either just east or just west of ashland, i can't remember right now) is good. there are not one, not two, but THREE locations for la pasadita all on the same block (ashland between thomas and division). i like la pasadita because it's cheap, it's good, it's open late, and no one has been murdered there in at least 10 days. or at least 5, i know someone got shot there last week.

and holy fuck i can not believe you mentioned irving park and sheridan because a friend of mine tends bar in uptown and gets me drunk for free on thursdays. i always wind up at the mexican place between the bar and the sheridan red line stop. burritos the size of a can of tennis balls. SPICEY PORK BURRITOS!!!! always sound like such a good idea at 1:45 am, by 7:15 when i'm on the el riding to work it's obvious they are a huge mistake.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

does flash taco still have the dollar menu? i can remember staggering out of sub-t with no folding money and still being able to get 3 tacos for like a buck or something.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

according to a friend of mine the best burritos ever were from a place on western north of division at like potomac or hirsch. but he was from the uk so he probably didn't know what he was talking about.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

brits don't know shit about tacos. i know this because i am currently surrounded by brits and they don't know shit about tacos.

taqueria moran @ the cali blue line stop was always my jam.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

GET A TACO MORANS

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

around the cali blue line stop will probably be the next place i move once i can wrap my brain around the idea of packing and unpacking my apartment again. i always say this time is the last time but it never is. it's either up that way or out to humboldt park, which, truthfully, if it was on california on the park, it really wouldn't be so bad.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Friend bartending near Irving Park and Sheridan = hahaha umm not that I've been there in a few years, but last I spent time the main options on said corner were like Nick's Uptown and the new Holiday, making the area some weirdass northern reflection of that one corner on Milwaukee in Wicker Park? And then Nick's was open like two hours later than every other bar, so the clientele of various sorts of places would funnel into Nick's around closing time and inevitably someone would get physically tossed out, maybe by bouncers, maybe by fellow patrons? Plus also crappy plastic darts and the erotic swimwear Memory boobies game.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe Otto's friend is at Holiday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Directly across from the Michoacan II! And around the corner from a convenient hot-dog stand, if you're too drunk to trust that you won't accidentally order yourself a brain taco.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm told there's a good burrito place on belmont
-- jw (jo...), December 27th, 2006. (later)

roffle! there's two, near southport, where i used to live in 1998. neither are that good.

also, completely discount everything nabisco ever says on the subject of chicago food considering that he 1. likes flash taco 2. doesn't like chicago-style pizza.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ TRUTH TELLER

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

john's spreadsheet continues to creep me out... yes, my friend is at holiday club, across the street from nick's. fuck that about flash taco, i love it though i never go unless i'm loaded and i hate that casserole of a pizza that is chicago deep dish.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

and kenan says hello.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate that casserole of a pizza that is chicago deep dish.
-- otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (effyouto...), December 28th, 2006. (later)

you are from boston so whatever you have to say about any food whatsoever is immediately invalid.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

if you can't boil it i don't want it. stevie ray vaughn is on in the bar, kenan is digging it, me and jon are h orrified.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

best burrito i had in chicago = at the tiny place on the same block as the green mill, but only because i lived 2 blox from there and we were usually drunk.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

HELLO JW IN CHICAGO!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 28 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

CHICAGO, LAND OF 1000DANCES>???!

― ian (orion), Thursday, 28 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to visit chi-town some day.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to go back sometime. i went last winter but it was with parents and i think it'd be much better to go do real people things than parentally friendly things.

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 28 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night I was trying to think of an NYC/Chicago translation map (prompted by thinking "hey Jon, Belmont = 14th Street"), but I didn't get very far. I don't know if that says more about their being totally different cities or just my imagination not working.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

best burrito i had in chicago = at the tiny place on the same block as the green mill,

So not Fiesta Mexicana but the place on the Lawrence side? That place is durrty.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that place has opened within the last year or two, so I'm guessing not that place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

what's the temp in chicago today?

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Low 40s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to visit chi-town some day.

Me too. I would really like to go to Chicago or NYC in March, but so many expensive things coming up in 2007 I'm trying to save for. (Starting with a new fridge later today.)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i just woke up. *yawn*, i suppose i should call work and find out if i'm still employed.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ooooh my head

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

last time i was in chicago it was a short amtrak layover and i had JUST enough time to go down the street for some italian beef w/ giardiniera and then run back to catch my train. it was cold that day anyway.

the museum of science and industry is swell, totally one of the best science museums in the country (not as good as the one in san francisco though).

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

So does Kevin still have job? Will JW recover from hangover in time for Thirsty Thursday?? STAY TUNED!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 29 December 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i still have the job, luckily i've been so sick (as jon can attest by his repeated "are you sure you don't want some dayquil?" at the bar) that they assumed i wasn't coming in. when i came in this morning they told me to go home, depending on how much i get done i may take off soon.

and jon/kenan, did we close out our tab before leaving wednesday? i know i closed out the first tab when the bartender's changed shifts but we had a few more after that.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Jon, when can we hang out? My band is playing a show on Saturday early evening if you want to come, not too far from your HQ. Sorry I wasn't able to make drinkeez the last couple nights.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, i'd be up for more drinks tonight (though i'm staying the fuck away from the jameson this time around). i have to meet a guy about a thing but i'll be around probably after 9:30 or 10 if you guys want to catch beers somewhere.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I might be up for that. Kr and I are going to Green Zebra for dinner at 7, and then we're making sure Nick and Sarah's cats aren't dead, but we don't have plans following that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to politely suggest that c-n-st- isn't really jon's style

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You're right, it's not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Much like Hurting, it's not always my style, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never actually seen c-n-s-t- but i did happen to be drinking at the bottle once during your sound check. i don't think i't's my style either.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

oh all the various letters that can fit into c-n-st-
i like some of their songs! the dancey ones

isn't there also a medical museum in chicago? if/when i visit chicago i would also go there. am jealous about good burritos.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

CUNTSTANZA

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

museum of surgical science i think it's called.

actually, i guess it's the international museum of surgical science.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, that's it! probably a bit dry but fascinating all the same

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll go with you

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to take visitors there whenever they came through town but all i have are recycled visitors now and they all say "but we went there LAST time!" so now i just take them to bars and get them drunk.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of dry but fascinating, i really REALLY want to go the the gerald ford library & museum. the only downside being that it's in grand rapids. but that's still a semi-reasonable drive away and i really do wanna go.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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