Starting the day off right, we booked a walking food tour with Tastebud Tours, much like the ones we took in New York and San Francisco. This one, however, promised we would need a healthy appetite....and they weren't kidding. When you start off with two slices of Chicago deep dish pizza (which as it turns out features a heart stopping amount of cheese), you know it's gonna be one heck of a tour!
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| Pizano's for Pizza |
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| Slice of Cheese and slice of Beef & Cheese |
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| Sarah's |
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| A "Sarah's" Brownie (fudgey heaven!) |
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Palm Court - the Tea Room at The Drake
(one of the top tea rooms in the world) |
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Powder room of The Palm Court
Powder room at the Palm Court was in the finals last year for the best rest room in America |
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| Individual facility |
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| Powder room hall |
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| Powder room wall |
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| Seating for High Tea at the Palm Court |
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| MrP outside The Drake |
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| John Hancock Center |
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| We saw a couple of weddings having photos taken at this church |
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Waterworks building that survived the Chicago Fire
(it's literally a giant holding tube to prevent flooding) |
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| Downtown Dogs - an apparent Chicago staple |
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All beef vienna sausage on a poppyseed bun with relish, onions, tomatoes, slice of pickle, peppers, mustard and celery salt.
The coloring of the relish is an old tradition that is still used today. Way back when, they thought the relish looked unappetizing, so they added green dye. (and they think this neon green looks more appetizing?!) |
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Chowing down
(MrP was terrified. Heck, I was terrified. Turned out it's damn tasty!) |
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| Another Chicago Fire survivor. They pressure washed most of the building, but left a bit of the spire to show the char. |
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| Next on our tour was Heaven on Seven, a cajun restaurant (subsequently we went back there again to try their pecan pie) |
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| Huge hot sauce collection (free dinner for two if you can bring in one the owner doesn't have) |
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| Gumbo (DELISH!) and Jambalaya (also very tasty!) |
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| Funny hot sauce |
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| with and even more hilarious description |
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| Tour Guide, Annalynne giving us the story behind the Cheezborger |
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| Cheezborger at The Billy Goat Tavern |
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| Love that architecture! |
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| Outside of The Chicago Tribune features stonework from buildings around the world |
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| Dessert at The Allerton Hotel (their pastry chef is amazing!) |
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| End of Tour Photo with Annalynne |
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| United Center |
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| Mitika statue |
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| Hull statue |
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| Growing up, MrP loved Michael Jordan |
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| Madhouse on Madison getting ready for some hockey |
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| Ready to cheer on the Oil (while expecting a 6-1 game for the Hawks) |
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| A whole lotta history! |
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| Gametime, baby! |
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| Retired numbers of some of the greats |
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| RNH (Ryan Nugent-Hopkins) - seriously looks like he's 12 on the ice with the big boys! |
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| Madhouse is right! |
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| The Bulls also play at the United Center |
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| The 'boulin Wall (or sieve as was the case that night) |
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| We got very tired of hearing Chelsea Dagger, as catchy as it is, it's tough to hear six times! |
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MrP and The Math Genius(as we deemed him)
from Medicine Hat, who's getting his PhD in Economics at Northwestern |
All in all, a fantastic time. I'll more pics up soon (MrP is on me to get them up!) But now all I can hear is Chelsea Dagger in my head....
hey! Are you still there or blogging at home about the trip!! I can't remember!! You left so many lovely comments today that I hope you are home and not doing THAT on your vacation :) Those are great pics and what a fabulous food tour!! oh, you two do the coolest things :) How exciting to be there for a game, regardless of the outcome :) Just neat to see how each town celebrates. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI love living vicariously through you :) Great pics and you two know how to take in a town!
ReplyDeletemmmm…heart stopping cheese….. :) Looks like a fun trip Tanny! And you have captured it in amazing fashion with your awesome photos!!! Do you work in the travel industry? If not, you totally should! You could sell a trip to anywhere - I want to go to Chicago now LOL!!! Too bad the oilers couldn't pull off a win for ya :(
ReplyDeleteSo fun! The food tour looked great, lots of eats and you got to see some cool places too! LOVED that bathroom and the fact that you took a photo and posted it! lol! I will look forward to seeing more :)
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