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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on February 21, 2010 at 10:37pm

Linky no hay.
(do you know if they serve BMXican food as well?)

Matt AKA Jimbo/BMXican said:

Cemitas Puebla 3619 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60647 The best Mexican Food in town and the only place that serves Cemitas in Chicago.They were even on that diners,drive ins and dives show on the food network.Heres a link to the their site and video.

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Permalink Reply by Matt AKA Jimbo/BMXican on February 24, 2010 at 2:34am

Oh I guess you'll just have to google it. poor google needs your traffic anyways. I'm the only one in the world who makes BMXican food. It's made of mac and cheese pizza wrapped in a taco topped with egg plant and M&M with a side of seal meat marinated in baby tears.

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Permalink Reply by Jim "Niterider" on February 24, 2010 at 4:43am

Up in Kenosha, The Coffee Pot on 3rd Ave and 50th St. Patio that you can eat on in Spring through Fall. All home made food. Big Star Drive-In on Washington Rd. Opens up in March around the 5th or 7th and is open through August. Evereything is fresh and cheap in price but not quality. On the weekends it is packed and they have outdoor seating also. Famous Daves out in Pleasant Praire on HWY 50. They have a covered patio so you can eat outside and decent BBQ-Ribs,brisket, steaks. Shril's Drive-in on Sheridan Rd-Homemade custered, chilli chese fries and anything else that can be fried. Have outdoor seating area and are biker friendly.
Bob and Anne's in Waukegan or in Zion on Sherdian Rd.-Homemade food and decent size plates. The soups are really good. Egg Harbor in Lake Forest-Excellent breakfests, overly packed on the weekends so you get stuck waiting sometimes. Ferentino's East or West Pizzeria also in Lake Forest-Excellent Pizza, filling meatball and beef bombers and huge plates of pasta. They have tables at both locations so you can eat outside and are biker friendly. Free refills on soda and water which is nice after a long ride. Portillio's-any location-all are busy. SuperDawg on Devon and Nagle-always full, never enough seating in the spring and summer ever. Full of bikers, tables outside-A Chicago landmark!

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Permalink Reply by Kellie on March 1, 2010 at 6:20pm

I would like to recommend Iyanze in Uptown! It is authentic West African Food and it is DELICIOUS! May I recommend the bean casserole with plantains? I would love to recommend a second dish, but I can never seem to get past this first one!
For those interested, it is on Broadway between Wilson and Leland...conveniently located just doors down from Uptown Bikes!

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Permalink Reply by Patrick O'Connor on March 1, 2010 at 6:21pm

Revolution Brewing. I give it 12 thumbs up.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 21, 2010 at 6:20pm

Just wanted to add my own rec-- ate here with some friends last night and it was wonderful:

La Humitas
3466 N. Pulaski

I guess technically we were at El Balcon since we arrived around 10 when the restaurant officially closed, and they sent us upstairs.
Been here once before in early 2004 before they had the second floor, so didn't quite know what to expect when we got to the top of the stairs.
Festive "family" environment, great live music, great food and service. Medium-pricey, not ridiculously so.
Check it out.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 21, 2010 at 6:24pm

Stopped in for the first time last night-- tried the beer but decided to skip out on the 90 minute wait.
Will have to find out when the best time to go is. My impression is that they've been pretty much filled to and beyond capacity since the moment they opened their doors?

The beer was very good; I'm not generally a huge fan of Microbrews since they tend to be just a little "too much" in some department or other, usually overflavored, but the one I had was fine (forget the name-- something with "cross") and I tried another (some sort of dark coffee/chocolate beer) that I also could have got down.

Patrick O'Connor said:

Revolution Brewing. I give it 12 thumbs up.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on March 22, 2010 at 2:43pm

H3N3 said:

Stopped in for the first time last night-- tried the beer but decided to skip out on the 90 minute wait.
Will have to find out when the best time to go is. My impression is that they've been pretty much filled to and beyond capacity since the moment they opened their doors? The beer was very good; I'm not generally a huge fan of Microbrews since they tend to be just a little "too much" in some department or other, usually overflavored, but the one I had was fine (forget the name-- something with "cross") and I tried another (some sort of dark coffee/chocolate beer) that I also could have got down.

Cross of Gold I think. A reference to William Jennings Bryan and his famous speech of the same name. I had the opposite reaction to their beer. It was ok, but it didn't have enough in some department or the other, usually flavor. I was also disappointed by the decor. It was far too slick. The tempeh reuben on the other hand - THAT was awesome. As were the fries. And there were some really cool bikes locked up out front - a pair of A Homer Hilson Rivendells, - perhaps the most beautiful bikes I've ever seen locked up anywhere.

I loved how the brewery was visible from our table.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 22, 2010 at 4:57pm

Will be interesting to see how things evolve.
I didn't have much of a reaction to the decor one way or the other, beyond noticing a presumably noticable lack of adornmnet on the walls, but I'd like to note that the most impressive interior I've seen recently is Simone's, with which I'm guessing you're familiar. I absolutely love what they did with the place.

Tony Adams said:

H3N3 said:

Stopped in for the first time last night-- tried the beer but decided to skip out on the 90 minute wait.
Will have to find out when the best time to go is. My impression is that they've been pretty much filled to and beyond capacity since the moment they opened their doors? The beer was very good; I'm not generally a huge fan of Microbrews since they tend to be just a little "too much" in some department or other, usually overflavored, but the one I had was fine (forget the name-- something with "cross") and I tried another (some sort of dark coffee/chocolate beer) that I also could have got down.

Cross of Gold I think. A reference to William Jennings Bryan and his famous speech of the same name. I had the opposite reaction to their beer. It was ok, but it didn't have enough in some department or the other, usually flavor. I was also disappointed by the decor. It was far too slick. The tempeh reuben on the other hand - THAT was awesome. As were the fries. And there were some really cool bikes locked up out front - a pair of A Homer Hilson Rivendells, - perhaps the most beautiful bikes I've ever seen locked up anywhere.

I loved how the brewery was visible from our table.

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Permalink Reply by Vondo on March 22, 2010 at 5:08pm

I thought the beers were just OK at Revolution, they weren't bad but nothing to rave about either. The usual thing where "this beer is very similar to Blue Moon and that one is very similar to Dead Guy".

I agree with your take on Simone's, the interior is very visually interesting, and its cool to have a place like that near our neck of the woods.

H3N3 said:

Will be interesting to see how things evolve.
I didn't have much of a reaction to the decor one way or the other, beyond noticing a presumably noticable lack of adornmnet on the walls, but I'd like to note that the most impressive interior I've seen recently is Simone's, with which I'm guessing you're familiar. I absolutely love what they did with the place.

Tony Adams said:

H3N3 said:

Stopped in for the first time last night-- tried the beer but decided to skip out on the 90 minute wait.
Will have to find out when the best time to go is. My impression is that they've been pretty much filled to and beyond capacity since the moment they opened their doors? The beer was very good; I'm not generally a huge fan of Microbrews since they tend to be just a little "too much" in some department or other, usually overflavored, but the one I had was fine (forget the name-- something with "cross") and I tried another (some sort of dark coffee/chocolate beer) that I also could have got down.

Cross of Gold I think. A reference to William Jennings Bryan and his famous speech of the same name. I had the opposite reaction to their beer. It was ok, but it didn't have enough in some department or the other, usually flavor. I was also disappointed by the decor. It was far too slick. The tempeh reuben on the other hand - THAT was awesome. As were the fries. And there were some really cool bikes locked up out front - a pair of A Homer Hilson Rivendells, - perhaps the most beautiful bikes I've ever seen locked up anywhere.

I loved how the brewery was visible from our table.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 22, 2010 at 6:12pm

beyond noticing a presumably noticable lack of adornmnet on the walls,

That made sense . . . should have been "presumably intentional lack of adornment," sorry.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on March 23, 2010 at 1:22pm

Vando said:

... I agree with your take on Simone's, the interior is very visually interesting, and its cool to have a place like that near our neck of the woods.

Yes! Simone's interior is a joy to behold. No one ordered that out of a catalog. My problem with the Revolution Brewing decor is not the lack of adornment though. I'm fine with simple and I prefer austere to overdone or kitschy. I hates me a disney Irish bar as much as the next pretentious hipster. But there is something I can't quite define about the Revolution Brewing's interior design that just seems too... I dunno, mainstream? It lacks funk. It has no discernible character. I want a joint in Logan Square to not look like it could just as easily be transported to Lincoln Park or Schaumburg or any generic American tourist strip.

Simone's also gets extra points for installing a lot of bike rack and not just depending on the city to install a couple of racks out front. They also get extra points for selling cans of IPA! And growing their own herbs and honey! on the roof. They lose a point for trying too hard to make clever cocktails. I've had two now which were just about undrinkable. (And I can drink Malort for g*d's sake! so I clearly have almost no grasp on the concept of undrinkable.)

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