There must be a reason that I always eat the same thing for breakfast almost every day. It is a bagel with cream cheese and peanut butter with coffee and orange juice. After eating high end breakfast in Chicago, it's going to be hard going back.
Wicker Park's Bongo Room offers breakfast all day. They have breakfast burritos and various pancakes and French toast with a variety of accoutrements that are guaranteed to send your blood sugar skyrocketing.
The cheesy whole potato hash browns were divine. The sweet potato pancakes with pecans and a honey-based syrup were delicious. The restaurant is efficient and provides good service. Its a great place to eat breakfast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Beware of the address on the Web site--it gives a South Side address when the place is in Wicker Park.)
Goose Island is always a great lunch and a beer spot. The brewpub offers a wide variety of beers that never see the inside of a bottle and are poured for you straight out of the cask they were brewed in.
My stock lunch is the veggie burger. I change the cheese up (this time it was pepper jack), and I will always order it with mushrooms.
The beer sampler allows you to try four small pours of different beer. I tried the Rye stout, the Anniversale, the Demolition stout and the Matilda Belgian ale. The crazy thing is that I also later made it into the Wrigleyville Goose Island, which offers the same beer surrounded by twice as many yuppies.
The trip was finished with a trip to Sam's Wine and Spirits, the megamall of liquor stores. I also shopped at Reckless Records, purveyors of obscure used music. Then I walked through Old Town back to the hotel. Enjoy the Picasa photo link that shows off my breakfast and lunch activities.
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