I have eaten at Pequods twice and don't get it. The pizza seemed average to me, and the place itself seemed like a frat boy hangout.

I liked Salerno's pizza on Grand lots in the past, but I don't get over that way very often anymore. These days it is Pizano's (so good) if I am downtown, and Leona's (pretty good) if I am at home, and Bertucci's (I don't care that it is a chain) if I can get it..

Unos and Genos I don't say no to, but that stuff will kill you quick.

The only good thing about Joliet is the pizza, I used love the Salernos growing up out there. If you ever get out that way, try The Keg. Best pizza I've ever had.

Great Lake pizza in Andersonville is by far the best pizza I've had here in Chicago. I had given up on grabbing a pizza dinner until this place opened.

I just got back from eating at Lulas. On Mondays, they have farm special meals - meals made from local farms, 3 courses. The price is $28. i had a salmon beat tar-tar to start, a full trout (with head!), greens, bacon and garlic for the main course, and some awesome desert with figs that i can't remember because i'm partially wasted right now.

Man, it was FUCKING good. i'll be dreaming of that trout for ages to come (and I was raised on fish!).

PEPPER! wrote:John, I turned off my computer yesterday and went to bed, but now it's morning and your sig is still doing that . . . that thing. MY EYES

I'm going to leave it up until simmo remarks on it, or people start telling me to remove it.

BTW, I absent-mindedly swiped a pack of your smokes from your back porch the other night. Old habits die hard, I guess.

(smoking i mean, not kleptomania. I'll give you and Julia a pack next time I see you)

I spent not one but two nights in the garden at Moody's last week. Love their burgers, their fries, and in the summer that garden's great.

Colonel Panic wrote:

PEPPER! wrote:John, I turned off my computer yesterday and went to bed, but now it's morning and your sig is still doing that . . . that thing. MY EYES

I'm going to leave it up until simmo remarks on it, or people start telling me to remove it.

BTW, I absent-mindedly swiped a pack of your smokes from your back porch the other night. Old habits die hard, I guess.

(smoking i mean, not kleptomania. I'll give you and Julia a pack next time I see you)

don't worry about it . . . smoke 'em till the tits on that thing fall off

Flaneur wrote:I spent not one but two nights in the garden at Moody's last week. Love their burgers, their fries, and in the summer that garden's great.

That sounds like a good week. Moody's is one of the few really dark bars in Chicago. Fireplace in the winter, garden in the summer. So nice.

I myself am addicted to the #4 Banh Mi at Nhu Lan on Lawrence & Talman-ish, which R.F.F. introduced me to when I moved to Lincoln Square. Lemongrass pork Vietnamese sub. I am thisclose to overdoing these and never wanting another.

Lula's, I like a lot. Good attention paid to a seasonally appropriate menu and things are well prepared.

I have had some really good pizza at Spacca Napoli (whose name I always forget and just call it 'Spiccoli's'). Some "eh", but what is good is very good. I like it much better than Pizza D.O.C. which I find a little greasy for that style of pie.

One week from today, I will dining at my very favorite restaurant, Riccio's Steak and Seafood in Palm Springs. The owner doesn't have enough to do in the summer, so he'll drink a Moretti and tell you all about the excellent menu and the local date plantations in his Don Corleone voice. I will probably eat there four days in a row.

Moody's. I was trying to remember the name of that place- that's where I went and there were no less than seven people with the same birthday as me there.

Nice place! Like Itchy said, lovely garden in summer, fireplace in winter.

I remember some weirdness about splitting checks or debit cards or something, but that was five or more years ago when I live in Chicago.

My current favorite hot dog stand is Paradise Pup in Des Plaines. Love their dogs, and they make their own absolutely awesome Italian beef, and make their own giardinera as well.