Chicago Day Three: Chinatown
After an uninspiring (but free!) morning at the Field Museum (I guess growing up with the Smithsonian in driving distance spoiled me for other museums), my family piled into a cab and my father asked the driver to take us to Chinatown.
The cabbie was taken aback. “I just want to warn you,” [...]
Chicago Day Two: Pancakes and Little India
After an inspiring morning at the Art Institute of Chicago (click here to read what I have to say about the wonderful Edward Hopper show), my sister and I decided to walk through the city up to Second City, where we would meet our parents. Around lunch time we started looking for [...]
Chicago Day One: Pizza and Billy Goats
The food most widely connected with Chicago is probably deep dish pizza, and everyone I spoke to from Chicago recommended Lou Malnati’s for the best deep dish pizza in Chicago. There was a branch of Lou Malnati’s just a few blocks from our hotel, so it was a no-brainer for our first [...]
Edward Hopper and Food
Over the long weekend I met my family in Chicago, and I will be blogging about the food in the days to come. While in Chicago I had the opportunity to visit the fabulous Art Institute, which was having an Edward Hopper exhibit. In addition to “Nighthawks,” his most well-known work (which is [...]
