Food Blog

Prairie Moon in Evanston has always been a favorite of mine. Opened 5 years ago by seasoned Evanston restaurant people, I’ve made it a regular destination more for their rotating tap or two of unusual beer.
The food’s always been good, I’ve always loved their ‘painted soup” - roasted tomato, poblano & squash but my […]

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The guys who brought you Volo and Kitsch’n have put together an outstanding beer geek and foodie destination, The Paramount Room on Milwaukee (415 N. Milwaukee Ave) just south of Hubbard and the train viaduct in an old speakeasy. I guess you could define it as a gastropub if that definition is above average pub […]

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A new machine, a busy work schedule and other excuses have kept me away. I’m on a new machine, and many of your email requests to get on the Food Blog list are still on a sick machine (not like I was going to get through them all anytime soon). In the meantime, here’s a […]

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While down in Bloomington IL, I really didn’t have the time to go galavanting around searching for beer, so I’m sorry that I didn’t get to the two microbreweries in the area - Illinois Brewing Company in Bloomington or John S. Rhodell Brewery in Peoria.
I did find Fat Jack’s, a bar in downtown Bloomington. Jack’s […]

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It is inevitalble that if you drink enough beer, you’ll drank some bad beer. I don’t mean the Blatz or the Budwieser Ultra-Ultra lights. I mean you’ll get a beer that once was a good beer.
A month ago, I thought it was cool that I knew where you could find Fat Tire on tap. Every […]

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For those who think I might have given up my beer quest, never fear, I’m still going, with an average of one a day, I just haven’t had time to write them up. 365-beer is back up for a few privigled drinkers, but closed to the masses of drunks that first attacked it, so I’m […]

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6) Three Floyds Alpha Klaus Xmas Porter. I tried one of these at Clark Street Ale house back in December, served in a big snifter and it quickly became my favorite Christmas Beer. Last night I had it on the hand-pull at Twisted Spoke on Ogden, and it was just as tasty. Although I’m not […]

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Sadly the 365 beer page has gone away It was great idea which became popular, but the creator understandably couldn’t handle the flood of drunks heading his way. He probably should have cut off new drinkers by the first few days of January.
In any case, I’m still resolving to continue on my quest to […]

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A couple more beers for the 365 beer challenge. As I mentioned, I’m not really going for 365, but for as many different on-tap beers as possible.
I’ve talked about Prairie Moon in Evanston, before, and it’s great that there’s a good beer on tap within walking distance of my house. The Moon has several […]

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Last year I was inspired by Nick at 365 Days of Beer who drank 365 different beers in a year, and thought it might be interesting to attempt a similar quest.
I also wanted to do something in the spirit of 1000 bars, the inspiring story of a man who went to 1000 bars in one […]

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