As much as we love Marcia cooking us hot homemade meals when she visits, we also love to take her out and fatten her up on the rich Chicago dining scene! Monday night, we had a delicious dinner at the Radler, a Logan Square restaurant that modernizes German classics with local, seasonal ingredients. Meghan (her… Continue reading New Dirty Dozen
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Etta and I returned to Das Radler for dinner. It was a mellow Monday night. Our server Jeff looked a little like Thom Yorke and did a terrific job with service from recommendations to pacing the meal. The first thing I noticed about the beers was both craft beer-making twins from the recent NYT Magazine… Continue reading Schnapse
Huntsville, AL
A larger group than last year flew and drove in to Huntsville, AL, the seat of NASA in the Deep South, to play our game, Quake 2 Capture the Flag, aka Q2CTF. Rusty''' brought an assortment of German food from Buffalo, including three different kinds of sausage, thick cut bacon, German potato salad, sauerkraut and… Continue reading Huntsville, AL