Conrad Hotel 37 Grill and Bar’s Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate? What's so exciting about that? Well- okay, I see, but wait just a moment. Have you seen those balls of chocolate that when they pour stuff on it (more chocolate/milk) and it just falls apart? That's this. Fancy, high quality, (expensive) hot chocolate. Mika did a whole staycation where she hopped around hotels on [...]

Brown Sugar Jazz Boutique

I visited Brown Sugar because I was drawn to the idea of live jazz and missing the wonderful jazz bars I went to in Prague. So I mentioned it to one of my hostel mates and we headed out, early, in the hopes of getting good seats and being able to get dinner before it got packed [...]

Southside Parlor

Since we were going to be in Seoul over night during our vacation I was really excited because we could go to places I normally can't, like a bar. I'm not a huge fan of bars back in the US. I go to chat with friends and I can never hear them over the music [...]

Steampunk tea time at Geek Bar Beta

The Geek Bar Beta is in Wicker park at 1941 West North Avenue. A friend told me about the event and I dressed up, though I think my outfit turned out more like a pirate then steampunk, and met my friends at the bar. The Geek Bar Beta hosts a lot of events. The night prior [...]