The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street. The Cultural Center has been around since 1897 and use to be the Chicago Public Library. Today it is a free to enter museum of sorts. It's open daily from 9am until 7pm, except on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) when it closes an hour earlier. [...]
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Thai Spoon
Thai Spoon is a Thai restaurant in the South Loop at 601 S Wabash Avenue. Whenever I go I usually order the same thing. A Thai iced tea and BBQ pork fried rice. One of the last times I went though I was meeting family there and they had just gotten off their flight and when [...]
Sala Bua-closed
Sala Bua is a Thai restaurant located in Chinatown at 2002 South Wentworth Avenue #103. I went with some friends and ordered thai iced tea, pad thai, and we split some Gui-Chai. The Gui-Chai was pan fried chive's with a sweet soy sauce on the side that we enjoyed. The pad thai came with a [...]
Lao Ma La-closed
Lao Ma La is located in Chinatown at 2017 South Wells Street. Friends and I were looking around in Chinatown for a place to get dinner and I'm pretty sure we decided on Lao Ma La because of it's modern looking atmosphere and I think because my friends wanted to drink and could see the bar [...]
Kramer’s Health Food Vegetarian Cafe
Kramer's Health Foods is located at 230 S Wabash Ave. To get to the cafe you have to first walk through the shop to the back. They sell a variety of teas and foods and all natural products. The cafe is in the back. There are stairs leading up. They also have a menu in [...]
Meli Cafe
There are three locations for the Meli Cafe. The one I've been to is in the Loop at 500 S Dearborn St. The Meli Cafe is a greek restaurant, with Meli coming from the greek word for honey. I've been twice to that same location. The first time was when a friend and her parents took [...]
Margie’s Candies
Margie's Candies has two locations. I went to 1813 W Montrose Ave, which is located right underneath the Montrose Brownline stop. Margie's Candies has existed since 1921 and has served everyone from international musicians like the Beatles, to the Rolling Stones and even Chicago gangsters like Al Calpone. The Montrose location opened in 1813. The "Before [...]
The Drake Hotel’s Palm Court
The Drake Hotel is at 140 E Walton Pl. For my birthday a friend told me we were going out for tea and to dress nicely and to bring my camera but didn't tell me where we were going. She had made a reservation for us at the Drake Hotel for afternoon tea in the Palm [...]
Gyu-Kaku
There seems to be a theme going on with my friends not telling me where we're going anymore. They pick a place and just tell me where to meet them. It's kind of fun, but I never know what to wear or expect. Today's surprise trip was to Gyu-Kaku a Japanese BBQ. One of my [...]
Stan’s Donuts & Coffee
Stan's Donuts & Coffee is located at 1560 N Damen Ave, Chicago and can be found right off the blue line Damen stop. Stan's Donuts is a shop that originated in California and just moved a location to Chicago. When I went I wasn't expecting to see it and it's right across the street from [...]