So the first stop on the Labor Day weekend extravaganza was to do a walking food/architectural tour of the Bucktown & Wicker Park neighborhoods of Chicago...
...it was a rainy day, so I broke one of my own photography rules and left the DSLR in the car and used my phone to take pictures...thus the quality of some pics are suspect at best....
Sidewalk stamp...
First up. A Chicago style hotdog from George's Hot Dogs.
Family owned since 1948. The original owner (George handed over the reins to his
son-in-law, George a few years ago, so it's still George's)
A Chicago dog is First and foremost a Vienna all beef dog, only,
on a poppy seed bun, with mustard, pickled peppers, onion, relish, tomato & a dill pickle spear...
..don't even TRY to put ketchup on it!
...then off to Beard Award winner & Chicago's top-ranked pastry & dessert restaurant
"Hot Chocolate" for some cold chocolate...
iced hot chocolate with a homemade marshmallow...
Where Bucktown and Wicker Park meet..
the Flat Iron Arts Building. Home to a wide array of art studios
open to the public...
...love these old corner buildings...
The Goddess & Grocer.
Gourmet foods & delicatessen & purveyor of local, organic and artisan groceries...
...we sampled the Kale salad.
Then it was off the the Sultan's Market a Middle-Eastern café.
...we had the Falafel...
...it was fal-awful! Although other liked it, it just wasn't for me.
Carrie, in the light top, was our tour guide for the rainy afternoon,
she did a great job, we highly recommend this tour!
We went to a brew house pizza place for some of their beer and...
New Haven style pizza? Didn't get that, we should have had
Chicago deep dish...like it was intended to be made in Chicago...
..I think it was really about the beer. Craft beers aren't my deal either,
Lore in her rain poncho toasts the day!
...the name of the pizza place was "Piece",
this is their take-out window...'piece out'
They have 2 corner buildings in the area.
this one is supposed to look like a dog looking up...still haven't seen that one...
Some of the beautiful Victorian brownstones in Wicker Park.
In the '70's you could pick one up for around $75,000 in much dis-repair...
...most have been fully restored and you can't touch one now for
less than $1,000,000...yes, 6 zeros!
Funny story around this canon in someone's yard involving the American Legion the current owners and the U.S. Navy.
The Legion used to own and operate out of this house. When the new owner bought it, the Legion showed up one day to retrieve "their" canon and wanted to know how to go about tearing down the wrought iron fence.
Obviously distressed the owner contacted the Navy who said the canon is U.S. government property and that the Legion had no claim to it and she could keep it on her property as long as she wanted it...it's still there...
Some very nice work done an all these renovations...
...it's all in the details.
This one will set you back about 3Mil...
Ice cream, we want ice cream...
"icream" makes their ice cream using liquid nitrogen...
...yummy.
...dog friendly neighborhood...
...more of the big Chicago adventure to come...
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