My kind of town, Chicago is...

Executive sous chef Hugh Amano knows that customers don't mess around when it comes to a Friday-night fish fry. "People are ready to take it outside when it comes to whether you serve potato pancakes or French fries on the side," he says. With South Water's new all-you-can-eat Friday special (dinner $20, lunch $15), he's not messing around either. His amped-up version uses Berghoff beer-battered cod, which he serves with a housemade dill-flecked tartar sauce and a tangy apple-cider cole slaw. The meal includes a housemade fruit cobbler to boot. And, for the record, at South Water Kitchen, the side of choice is French fries.

Calling all good (and not so good) Catholics. I caught a segment on MetroMix last night about fish on Fridays during Lent. They had a number of suggestions for dinner and recommended South Water Kitchen for lunch.

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Executive sous chef Hugh Amano knows that customers don't mess around when it comes to a Friday-night fish fry. "People are ready to take it outside when it comes to whether you serve potato pancakes or French fries on the side," he says. With South Water's new all-you-can-eat Friday special (dinner $20, lunch $15), he's not messing around either. His amped-up version uses Berghoff beer-battered cod, which he serves with a housemade dill-flecked tartar sauce and a tangy apple-cider cole slaw. The meal includes a housemade fruit cobbler to boot. And, for the record, at South Water Kitchen, the side of choice is French fries.

Yo I work in the Loop and April 6 is cool.

There aren't many Fridays during Lent, and I'm traveling on two of them, but maybe we can make this work.

March 16 - I'm open as long as I get on the 1:35 train coming back
March 23 - no
March 30 - no
April 6 - I'm open, but it's Good Friday which might cause an issue for some.

Is anyone interested?

Yo I work in the Loop and April 6 is cool.

Gargamel's cryptic response is under the quote within the quote:

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Yo I work in the Loop and April 6 is cool.

I could make it just about anytime, JPB. South Water Kitchen is a brisk walk from where I work.

Gargamel's cryptic response is under the quote within the quote:

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Yo I work in the Loop and April 6 is cool.

I could make it just about anytime, JPB. South Water Kitchen is a brisk walk from where I work.

I just purchased cub tickets for the April 17th game at Wrigley! I entered my name into a drawing for the opportunity to buy dugout, bullpen and bleacher box seats. And my name was pulled - so I was able to order reasonably priced tickets online! Yay!

Tickets go on sale 3/31 for Eric Claptons guitar fest.

Here is the current lineup:

Jeff Beck
Doyle Bramhall II
Eric Clapton
Robert Cray
Sheryl Crow
Vince Gill
Buddy Guy
BB King
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Sonny Landreth
Albert Lee
Los Lobos
John Mayer
John McLaughlin
Willie Nelson
Robert Randolph
Hubert Sumlin
Derek Trucks
Jimmie Vaughan
Steve Winwood

Couple of things to start paying attention to....

First, lunch this Friday -- I think South Water Kitchen takes reservations for lunch. I'll make 'em, but let's decide on a time. I'll be taking the train in, arriving around 11:25. I can walk over to joe's office to meet him and we can go over to the restaurant together. Any time after 11:45 is doable for me. Do any of the rest of you have time preferences?


Second, Walter and CI are coming in late May, early June. Swimpy is also a hopeful attendee. Any others? I know that sublime will be in Minnesota that week and that joe has plans to teach Walter the finer points of baseball at a Cubs game. I'll leave as much of that week open as I can, but I'll be taking the train back and forth, so my evening availability will be limited to the train schedules. We would love it if other's would consider making a trip to Chicago during the same time frame. eoe or 2-packs (Missouri is almost spitting distance)? Anyone else?