Steve and I went to the taste of Chicago this year. I haven't been in a few years, the crowd kind of gets to me. It's amazing how many people they pack in to the street. Both of us had July 3rd off. I said if we're going let's go early. it opens at 11:00. We were there by 11:05 and the crowd was already huge. it was a perfect day. warm with partly sunny skies. We started the day by walking the length of the taste. With only so many tickets in our pockets we wanted to know what was offered before we dove in. The thing that the taste has been working on bring back is the "taste portion". This is just a taste portion of the most popular dish for about half the number of tickets. We decided to only order the "taste portion" so we could get more things to eat.
The first thing we tried was onion fried green beans at O'Briens. This is one way to ruin a perfectly healthy vegetable. Cover it in flour with chopped up onion and deep fry it. Come on it's the taste, forget about eating healthy. Boy! were they good. we had to take a picture to help us remember where we bought them so we could visit that restaurant again.
We also tried some glass noodles, ice cream, grilled corn, sweet baby ray's rib sandwich (which i confess I have never had before), and two more things that i forgot because i waited so long to write this down. It was a great day. We had full stomachs and sun-burned noses to prove it.
Steve and I went to the taste of Chicago this year. I haven't been in a few years, the crowd kind of gets to me. It's amazing how many people they pack in to the street. Both of us had July 3rd off. I said if we're going let's go early. it opens at 11:00. We were there by 11:05 and the crowd was already huge. it was a perfect day. warm with partly sunny skies. We started the day by walking the length of the taste. With only so many tickets in our pockets we wanted to know what was offered before we dove in. The thing that the taste has been working on bring back is the "taste portion". This is just a taste portion of the most popular dish for about half the number of tickets. We decided to only order the "taste portion" so we could get more things to eat.
The first thing we tried was onion fried green beans at O'Briens. This is one way to ruin a perfectly healthy vegetable. Cover it in flour with chopped up onion and deep fry it. Come on it's the taste, forget about eating healthy. Boy! were they good. we had to take a picture to help us remember where we bought them so we could visit that restaurant again.
We also tried some glass noodles, ice cream, grilled corn, sweet baby ray's rib sandwich (which i confess I have never had before), and two more things that i forgot because i waited so long to write this down. It was a great day. We had full stomachs and sun-burned noses to prove it.
