Russian Tea Time is located at 77 E Adams St. They serve lunch, tea, and dinner. For afternoon tea they serve it from 2:30 until 4:30pm. I've been wanting to go to Russian Tea Time since the first time I've passed it, but either haven't had time or my schedule hasn't overlapped properly with my friends'. [...]
Category: chicago
Artist’s Cafe
The Artist's Cafe is a popular spot on Michigan Avenue, it is located on 412 South Michigan. There is at least one other cafe in the city, relatively near the first. I went to it once my first year in Chicago and then again recently. I remember going my first year and being highly disappointed [...]
Nookies, too
Nookies, too is located on 2114 N Halsted St. It is a brunch restaurant. They have a couple restaurants throughout the city. We arrived around 10am and the restaurant began to become packed by 11am. I ordered their special of carrot cake french toast, it had raisins in it that I barely noticed. My uncle [...]
Chicago History Museum
The Chicago History Museum is located at 1601 N. Clark St. A couple buses like the 26 and 22 drop people off right at the front. It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the city and it's history. It packs a lot into two floors. It goes through Chicago's history, the blues and jazz era, [...]
Thai Burrito-closed
Thai Burrito is in Lincoln Park located at 2439 N. Clark Street. Around 3pm on a weekday afternoon isn't a time when a lot of restaurants are open in Lincoln Park. Most of the restaurants we were interested didn't open until 4:30 or 5pm, and since it was cold we weren't really interested in standing [...]
A Taste of Heaven
A Taste of Heaven is located at 5401 N Clark St in Andersonville. This restaurant is reachable from the redline Argyle stop, within a bit of a walk, or you can be dropped off directly by the 22 bus. I went for a sunday brunch with some friends on my birthday. The servers told me [...]
Umai
Umai is a japanese restaurant located at 730 South Clark Street. The restaurant has a nice elegant feeling to it. It wasn't super busy and I loved the mural and art on the walls. When I went again recently on a saturday night it was pretty packed. I ordered the Udon Kare with pork. The [...]
Ras Dashen
Ras Dashen is located at 5846 N Broadway St. Ras Dashen is an Ethiopian Restaurant. I had family visiting so we went here for fun. I had the ethio chai. It didn't help much with the spices from the food, but it was enjoyable. We started off ordering Qategna as an appetizer. Qategna is made with [...]
Lincoln Park Conservatory
The Lincoln Park Conservatory is located at 2391 N Stockton Dr. It's in-between the Nature Museum and the Lincoln Park Zoo. It's a great place to go in winter to get away from the cold. The Conservatory is home to a Palm House, a Fern Room (look for the dinosaurs scattered around), an orchid house, [...]
Chinese New Year with Red Moon at Navy Pier
Instead of going to a parade in Chinatown or off of Argyle, this year I went to Navy Pier. Navy Pier partnered with Red Moon and the Cubs to put on the event. Red Moon is a theater troupe in the city. They utilized the room at the end of the pier. For the year [...]