Chicago, Chicago, I love you, Chicago

[osprey_archer]

I am returned from Chicago! Rachel and I had a splendid and delicious time. We ate at a Mediterranean place, where I considered getting shawerma in honor of finally seeing Avengers but ultimately got a delicious meat pie, and a Korean place which had a Korean version of poutine - I never would have ordered it, but Rachel did, and it was surprisingly delicious.

And! And! Most delicious of all! 5411 Empanadas, which is, well, empanadas. Empanadas are the most perfect food ever and if I lived in Chicago I might never eat anywhere else, because this place is so delicious and so inexpensive. I especially loved the bacon, date, and goat cheese empanada - OMG SO GOOD - and the dessert empanada, bananas and Nutella.

Also, the storefront is lovely: it's this rich, beautiful blue, very unusual in an American city. I wish I had a picture, but sadly I left my camera in Rachel's apartment because I had been taking photos of Rachel's cat Cleo.



Cleo, in all her regal glory.



And Cleo, batting at my camera cord. She loves string.





Also also! A dream come true! I finally made it to the American Girl store!





We also stopped by the Lego store. This is Lego Chicago. There's a little tiny Spiderman hanging between two of the towers.

Comments

[dineru.livejournal.com]

Ooh, empanadas! I'm a few hours south of Chicago so I may have to check out this place the next time I make it to the city. In the meantime, there's a nice little place near me that makes cheesecake empanadas and brownie empanadas. They're amazing!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I've heard of cheesecake empanadas, but brownie empanadas! That is new and fascinating. Do they just have chunks of brownie inside? Is there chocolate sauce involved?

[dineru.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a giant chunk of brownie wrapped in an empanada! I think there may have been some chocolate sauce, not quite sure. I was too fixated on DELICIOUS WARM BROWNIE in an intriguing new form. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And I got your beautiful, beautiful card from this wonderful city (and I have a perfect card to send to you--hope to write some letters tomorrow).

In other news, the empanadas are making me hungry. Well, maybe it's them on top of the chocolate chip cookies in the most recent entry of yours...

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that my card made the journey safely!