Things to see and do in Chicago

[SphinxnihpS]

Clubs:

Alternative music: Metro, Empty Bottle, Double Door. You can usually get in at the door, but big acts will be sold out. If you need to get in any of them, they are owned by Joe Shannahan, who's name you can drop.

Jazz: Underground Wonder Bar (Maybe you'd get to see Lonie Walker and her Big Bad Ass Company Bandy). Green Mill

Blues: Chicago House of Blues, or Buddy Guy's Legends.

 

[Steve]

LOL, Dain does not and has never lived in Chicago.


Also, we get it Sphinxi, you don't like Lou's. You can shut up about it now.


I've never had a Lou's pie but I'm willing to try it. Just let me know what location you worked at and I won't order from there.

 

[Ballatician]

Originally posted by: drewdogg808
For pizza, I prefer Giordano's. Gino's East is good too.

YES. And Portillo's for hot dogs.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: paulxcook
DON'T bother visiting Uncle Fun's Joke Shop. Not worth it.

lol, is that real? never heard of this place.

http://www.unclefunchicago.com/

Apparently I made up the part about "Joke Shop", or they changed their name. Either way, it should be Uncle Garage Sale, it's just a shop full of worthless cheap crap.

edit: also, I'm from Indy, so to me Lou Malnati's is heaven. Maybe there's better pizza in Chitown but I don't live there so it's hard to comparison shop.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Clubs:

Alternative music: Metro, Empty Bottle, Double Door. You can usually get in at the door, but big acts will be sold out. If you need to get in any of them, they are owned by Joe Shannahan, who's name you can drop.

Jazz: Underground Wonder Bar (Maybe you'd get to see Lonie Walker and her Big Bad Ass Company Bandy). Green Mill

Blues: Chicago House of Blues, or Buddy Guy's Legends.

LOL, HOB for blues? Not as often as the name would imply... up next on their calendar is Apocalyptica, B52's and Alter Bridge.... you'd be better off going to B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted, Blue Chicago or Famous Dave's on Clark or Buddy Guys as you said.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Steve
LOL, Dain does not and has never lived in Chicago.


Also, we get it Sphinxi, you don't like Lou's. You can shut up about it now.


I've never had a Lou's pie but I'm willing to try it. Just let me know what location you worked at and I won't order from there.

Then Dain should be answering the question with such ferver. I worked at Rolling Meadows, and subbed a few times for Linclonwood and Buffalo Grove. The pizza is the same at all of them. Honestly, if you have never had Chicago pie, or only bad Chicago pie, and you are predisposed to liking it, you will probably think Lou's is decent or even good. It is very much like Uno's. Personally I can't stand the butter crust or the kind of sausage they use, nor the way they do sausage, but the worst part is that the crust is mushy on the bottom because they use crushed tomatos rather than sauce. When they cook it, the water from the tomatos goes straight to the bottom of the pie. Ick!

 

[Lamont Burns]

Rolling Meadows... I grew up in Arlington Heights and always loved pizza from a place called Tortorice's on Central road as you enter Mount Prospect. Not really Chicago style, but I loved it.

Ever tried that Sphinx?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Clubs:

Alternative music: Metro, Empty Bottle, Double Door. You can usually get in at the door, but big acts will be sold out. If you need to get in any of them, they are owned by Joe Shannahan, who's name you can drop.

Jazz: Underground Wonder Bar (Maybe you'd get to see Lonie Walker and her Big Bad Ass Company Bandy). Green Mill

Blues: Chicago House of Blues, or Buddy Guy's Legends.

LOL, HOB for blues? Not as often as the name would imply... up next on their calendar is Apocalyptica, B52's and Alter Bridge.... you'd be better off going to B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted, Blue Chicago or Famous Dave's on Clark or Buddy Guys as you said.

They have a Famopus Dave's in Chicago now? I always liked the one in Minneapolis, but never had any luck at any of the other locations I have tried. Minneapolis has a replica of the Chicago El, and they bring you your food on a garbage can lid. Is that how they do it in Chicago.

Back when I lived there, HOB did have about 50% blues acts. I guess things have changed some. I don't think BLUES existed there before I moved. I'll have to hop in the car and do my own touristing I guess. LOL!

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
Rolling Meadows... I grew up in Arlington Heights and always loved pizza from a place called Tortorice's on Central road as you enter Mount Prospect. Not really Chicago style, but I loved it.

Ever tried that Sphinx?

Heh, I worked at the Tortorice's in Elgin on Randall Road for a year or two as a driver. It's all about the BOSS and the Picasso. Picasso BOSS, brilliant.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
Rolling Meadows... I grew up in Arlington Heights and always loved pizza from a place called Tortorice's on Central road as you enter Mount Prospect. Not really Chicago style, but I loved it.

Ever tried that Sphinx?

Just off Milwaukee Ave? Yes. Tortorice's had very good thin! It's kind of in a bad neiborhood though.

 

[Lamont Burns]

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
Rolling Meadows... I grew up in Arlington Heights and always loved pizza from a place called Tortorice's on Central road as you enter Mount Prospect. Not really Chicago style, but I loved it.

Ever tried that Sphinx?

Heh, I worked at the Tortorice's in Elgin on Randall Road for a year or two as a driver. It's all about the BOSS and the Picasso. Picasso BOSS, brilliant.

Picasso... oh god, yeah I remember ordering Picasso all the time. I need to make a trip home...

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Clubs:

Alternative music: Metro, Empty Bottle, Double Door. You can usually get in at the door, but big acts will be sold out. If you need to get in any of them, they are owned by Joe Shannahan, who's name you can drop.

Jazz: Underground Wonder Bar (Maybe you'd get to see Lonie Walker and her Big Bad Ass Company Bandy). Green Mill

Blues: Chicago House of Blues, or Buddy Guy's Legends.

LOL, HOB for blues? Not as often as the name would imply... up next on their calendar is Apocalyptica, B52's and Alter Bridge.... you'd be better off going to B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted, Blue Chicago or Famous Dave's on Clark or Buddy Guys as you said.

They have a Famopus Dave's in Chicago now? I always liked the one in Minneapolis, but never had any luck at any of the other locations I have tried. Minneapolis has a replica of the Chicago El, and they bring you your food on a garbage can lid. Is that how they do it in Chicago.

Back when I lived there, HOB did have about 50% blues acts. I guess things have changed some. I don't think BLUES existed there before I moved. I'll have to hop in the car and do my own touristing I guess. LOL!

BLUES has been around since 1979, it's a really neat hole-in-the-wall kinda deal. It's definitely worth checking out as is Blue Chicago. There's so much good music in this city it's sick

 

[Lamont Burns]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
Rolling Meadows... I grew up in Arlington Heights and always loved pizza from a place called Tortorice's on Central road as you enter Mount Prospect. Not really Chicago style, but I loved it.

Ever tried that Sphinx?

Just off Milwaukee Ave? Yes. Tortorice's had very good thin! It's kind of in a bad neiborhood though.

I guess there's more locations than I knew about. The one I went to was very close to Rolling Meadows, in Mount Prospect.

 

[Steve]

I've heard about a Lou's pie that has a flattened disk of sausage for a crust. Now that I'd like to try.


Guess I won't be ordering from the 'burbs

 

[memo]

Pequod's Pizza.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: memo
Pequod's Pizza.

:thumbsup: My favorite pizza in the city, mmm, caramelized cheese crust.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Steve
I've heard about a Lou's pie that has a flattened disk of sausage for a crust. Now that I'd like to try.


Guess I won't be ordering from the 'burbs

They use low quality bulk brick sausage that puffs up like bread as it cooks. This may be due to the fillers in the sausage. Anywho, they smash it into the bottom of the entire surface of the crust. As it cooks a 1/16'' layer becomes a good 1/4' disk of sausage. This would be fine by me if the sausage were any good, but it is flavorless garbage. (IMO)

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns

I guess there's more locations than I knew about. The one I went to was very close to Rolling Meadows, in Mount Prospect.

Yeah. I think Central is one of those streets that dead end into Milwaukee Ave because Milwaukee runs at an angle. Just North of the airport, right?

 

[pontifex]

I hear the south side of chicago is a real fun place.