Thursday, June 18, 2009

Old Friends Gather in Chicago Restaurants

It's virtually impossible to suggest a place to eat to someone that you do not know, especially in a city that has each sort of restaurant there's available. Chicago restaurants array between junk food chains to restaurants you wouldn't feel out of whack in wearing an evening gown or tux. But when recommending a cafe to somebody, how do you find the balance between the two without causing offense?
If you have a snooty new pal who takes pride in her wine tasting, or sensitive pallet and you send her somewhere inexpensive or loud, she'd be bothered enough to stop talking to you. While that may have been your aim, you also just lost your place on the wine and cheese tasting invite list, and who does not enjoy some free wine and cheese on occasion? But if you have a pal who cares about price over appearance of eaterie and even the flavour of the food, perhaps somebody with a pair children to drag along and feed as well, and you send her to a costly steak house, who's to claim that you will not get the cold shoulder when she returns from having her kids harass a person in a tuxedo?
And you may be confidant that you'll find a shady-looking, but delicious-tasting Asian cafe in China Town, merely by the name of the street. I spent an evening with a couple of my girlfriends looking for food in Chicago restaurants, and faced the same issues we had always faced in college. I needed a steak, a burger, a massive piece of crab, or some sort of meat. Joanna couldn't go to a steak house because she was a vegetarian, and wouldn't have anything to eat except salad, which she had never liked. We couldn't go out for pasta, because Sarah does not eat any carbohydrates. Once again, just like so many weekend nights before, the three of us had nowhere to eat, and resorted to our favourite kind of all Chicago Restaurants Korean food. With veggies galore to satisfy Joanna, no necessity to eat pasta or rice on Sarah's part, and beef -albeit cut into little pieces and cooked with vegetables-to satisfy even the most beef hungry of the three of us. We are living evidence that even if your budgets and tastes differ, there is always a cafe that seems made just for you.
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