February

• 2.8.17 - Les Ba'get ★★★☆☆
  • Toddy-sweet Vietnamese coffee; ham&egg bahn mi, w/ Buddha Spring Rolls and Vietnamese street corn bowl; ∅ pandan milk ☹
• 2.15.17 - Café Rabelais ★★★★★+
  • Rose wine bottle, charcuterie (boo, horseradish-like spicy mustard), pork with lavender cream sauce, the world's best fucking [rustic?] French bread
  • BONUS!! Oatmeal raisin ice cream sandwich w/ strawberry ice cream, rainbow sprinkles, and Nerds candy
• 2.22.17 - House of Pies ★★★★★+++
  • 2 eggs over medium with hash browns, 2 sausage patties, 4 triangles of buttery-ass toast, and 4 slices of bacon + 9/10s of a slice of Bavarian chocolate pie

March

• 3.1.17 - Kenny & Ziggy's ★★★★☆
  • Egg cream soda; shareable gigantor Jewish-style chicken pot pie; full sour pickles; spinach shmear dip with bagel chips!
• 3.9.17 - MAX's Wine Dive ★★★★★! (Celebration date - Northwestern acceptance letter received!)
  • homemade chip-fries w/ truffle oil, parmesean, and light garlic butter; HUGE fried egg sandwich; brie cruet, half-peach and half-hot fudge cake w/ ice cream, full bottle of sparkling rose
• 3.15.17 - One Fifth ( late Pi Day! , S&B Day)
  • Bourbon Zombie + Sparkling Lemon Drop cocktails; sourdough bread w/ smokey melted fat for spread; brown buttered mushrooms; skillet greens; roasted clams; cut of the day: gigantor chocolate layer cake for home!
• 3.29.17 - Chuy's (sicky Steve) ★★★★★
  • Comida deluxe: tostado y queso; two taquitos; two cheese enchiladas; a taco; charro beans; green chile rice
• 4.6.17 - America's ★★★★☆
  • Margarita + Caipirinha + Pitya/dragon fruit and cucumber margarita (off-menu)l; beef empanadas; tilapia ceviche; bottomless plantan chips with 3 sauces (olive-oil based chimichurri, mystery white squash/bean sauce, salsa)

July

• 7.15.17 - Lucille's ★★★★★
  • The Garden (cocktail); fried green tomatoes w/ spicy aioli and goat cheese; Lucille's famous original biscuits; French-pressed coffee with cream and turbinado sugar; lemon tart cake w/ graham cracker crust
• 7.20.17 - One-Fifth ★★★★☆
  • party: me, Steve, Cava
  • Provence Collins (cocktail); corn maque chaux; sweet potato au gratin; the world's largest fucking slab of a ribeye steak (shared betwen the three of us); peach and cream cheesecake

August

• 8.9.17 - A'Bouzy ★★★☆☆
  • Ac grut sparkling rose brut (bottle!); octopus carpaccio; avocado & king crab salad; watermelon rainbow sashimi; sous vide pork w/ deliious beans; house bread