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Owen and Engine is the balls

john — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:45:51 +0000

If you’ve been to a bar that stocks more than one kind of bitters in the last three years, you’ve probably left thinking the same thing I have: What’s up with the mustaches? Or maybe more specifically, What’s up with the turn-of-the-century gear, bartender-guy? Since when is looking like Teddy …

Poutine tang at Leopold

jaeger — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:08:56 +0000

May 27th, 1940 was a day of impossibly vivid colors at Dunkirk. The cool azure of the sky above contrasting grotesquely with the shock red blood of the soldiers who battled below it. King Leopold III, without the consult of his advisors, his people, or the prime minister of England …

Macku will Make You Mouthgasm!

chinbeard — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:01:34 +0000

In the Chicago Gluttons hiatus, I have fallen into a deep food funk that rivals Joaquin Phoenix’s spiral into oblivion. Maybe it was the strange weather or maybe it was the gimmicky food trends hitting Chicago. (I appreciate kitschy stuff, but for the sake of Jebus, I don’t care if …

Fishbar Is Not A Thai Brothel

john — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:34:21 +0000

Yeah, I know, we never post anymore. We’re bad at it. Less post than a broke bail bondsman. But we haven’t quit eating–we’re still stacking calories like a shitty tetris game–it’s just that updating the site on a regular basis can mean taking what meager free time we have and …

Smoke Wit Me, Calumet

Thu, 12 May 2011 04:36:02 +0000

Oh beautiful land that connects the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Indiana Tollway right under the illustrious Chicago Skyway. You nestle the pristine waters of the Calumet River in your voluptuous, bountiful bosom. This is God’s Country…right next to Gary.

Last Saturday we ventured down to into the “Infected Zone” …