Happy Monday! How was your holiday weekend? I had a great weekend spent with family and friends! {thursday} Our friends, Brian and Katie, arrived from Cincinnati late Wednesday night. Kevin and I both worked on Thursday during the day and my job allowed us to leave early at 3 PM which was great! After work,…
Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar
Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar is a great neighborhood restaurant located Chicago’s River North area. The menu offers both sushi and items from their robata grill. Union has great happy hour specials everyday from 5-6:30 PM including $1 oysters, $2 beef filet skewers, and $4 shrimp tempura rolls. Kevin and I are big oyster fans so…
Weekend Recap
Good morning afternoon! Sorry for the delay in this post, but better late than never right? I had a very busy weekend and special guests in town so didn’t have much free time to sit down and write. {friday} Two of our friends from college, Mary and Taylor, are currently living overseas on a temporary…
Cicchetti
For my birthday dinner this year, Kevin and I visited Cicchetti. Cicchetti is the latest creation from Chef Michael Sheerin, the guy behind another Chicago staple Trenchermen. Chef Sheerin has quite the impressive culinary resume from working in NYC at Jean-Geroges and WD-50 to becoming the first-ever chef de cuisine under James Beard award-winning chef…
Five on Friday – Birthday Edition
Friday is here!! Hope you all had a great week! Thank you all for the birthday love yesterday – I had a great day! {one} Started the morning off yesterday with a relaxing massage! {two} Had a delicious birthday dinner with Kevin at Cicchetti on Wednesday. Please excuse the terrible iPhone pic and my terrible hair –…
Thursday Things – 29
Today is my 29th Birthday!! While part of me cringes at the thought that I am much closer to 30 than I am to 20, the other part of me is fully embracing it! I can honestly say my life continues to get better with each passing year. I definitely miss my college days and…
Little Goat Diner
If you’ve spent any time in the West Loop walking down “Restaurant Row”, you probably have noticed a spinning goat if you look up on the corner of Randolph and Green. source Little Goat Diner was created by Top Chef: Season Four winner, Stephanie Izard and is part of the Boka Restaurant Group. source Prior to…
Cocello
Brendan Sodikoff, the mastermind behind Au Cheval, Green Street Smoked Meats and other Chicago favorites, has added another line to his already impressive resume with Cocello. Cocello is an Italian small plates restaurant that I visited over the weekend with some girlfriends. This new River North spot is just over a month old and is…
Five on Friday
TGIF!! We made it through another week! I was a little worried how this week was going to go after only working two days last week, but surprisingly the days went by really fast and here we are almost to another weekend! I’m looking forward to another low key weekend spent outdoors enjoying the sunshine! …
Thursday Things – Summer Bucket List
Since summer is officially here, I thought it would be a good idea to come up with a summer bucket list of things I want to do/accomplish over the next 3 months. In an attempt to slow down my pace of life recently, I’ve really been concentrating on not booking up all of my weekends…