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Anna’s House (Kalamazoo)
4700 Stadium Drive Kalamazoo, MI 49008 (269) 372-3900 Website Menu I’d really like to think I’m a pretty observant guy….yet somehow, this one totally got passed me. I really had no idea Sophia’s House...
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Green Door Distilling Company
429 E. North Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 929-7341 Website J and I have really taken advantage of grandparents coming to visit lately. Last month, when her parents were in town, we went out to...
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Fresh Fish and Fry
3140 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Lansing, MI 48901 (517) 882-7007 Website Menu An impromptu trip to Lansing means an impromptu trip for dinner. A co-worker and I decided at the last minute we...
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Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers (Oak Lawn)
11006 S. Cicero Avenue Oak Lawn, IL 60453 (708) 422-3736 Website Menu If you have kids, you know how important chicken fingers are. We eat a lot of chicken fingers. Frozen chicken fingers. Homemade...
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The Bar Below
127 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 372-2987 Website Menu J and I are not fancy food people. We’re much more comfortable in a bar eating sandwiches than in a white table cloth place with a...
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Shake Shack (Chicago Loop)
12 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 646-6005 Website Menu We didn’t really need anymore food. We had a pretty big dinner at The Bar Below, but we still had about an hour and a half until...
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The PrivateBank Theatre
18 W. Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 977-1700 Website Last fall, Book of Mormon came to Miller Auditorium as part of their PNC Broadway in West Michigan series. It just so happened that it was...
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Miller Park
1 Brewers Way Milwaukee, WI 53214 (414) 902-4452 Website Menus Hamilton wasn’t the only tickets we had while we were in Chicago for J’s birthday. A baseball game was part of the weekend festivities...
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Barraco’s Pizza (Crestwood)
13445 S. Cicero Avenue Crestwood, IL 60445 (708) 385-2002 Website Menu My parents weren’t really ready for the day to end after the White Sox game ended in Milwaukee. We left Miller Park around 4:00...
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Kelvin & Company
232 E. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 530-5236 Website Menu There can never be enough BBQ restaurants in town. That said, I’m always skeptical when a new one opens. The shops that try to...
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What’s The Scoop
3667 Baldwin Street Hudsonville, MI 49426 (616) 662-6423 Website Menu Pretty short weekend for J and I. I had to work Friday and she had to work Sunday which left us with really only Saturday off...
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Walnut & Park
322 W. Walnut Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 903-0578 Website Menu Getting up every morning to get L to school has afforded me the opportunity to stop in at more of the cafe’s around town for...
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Fat Albert’s Restaurant
6854 S. Ashland Avenue Chicago, IL 60636 (773) 737-6161 No Known Website Menu Every summer I explain how my dad, my brother, and my best friend from high school go to a White Sox game. We get wings,...
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Guaranteed Rate Field
333 W. 35th Street Chicago, IL 60616 (312) 674-1000 Website New name. New blog, right? I keep linking back to a really only blog post on US Cellular Field so I thought it was time to finally update....
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Al’s Italian Beef (Wentworth)
5441 S. Wentworth Avenue Chicago, IL 60609 (773) 373-4700 Website Menu I have been in a long running battle with a co-worker over who has the best Italian beef sandwich. For some reason, he thinks...
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The Fire Hub
175 S. Kendall Street Battle Creek, MI 49037 (269) 753-0065 Website Menu Battle Creek has a lot of old fire stations. Some of them, like Station 3 in the Post Neighborhood are still being used. Some...
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Qdoba Mexican Eats (Stadium & Drake, Kalamazoo)
2061 S. Drake Road Kalamazoo, MI 49006 (269) 353-6488 Website Menu My first full regularly schedule weekend off in seven years saw us being a little lazy when it came time to meals. We spent the day...
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Kingman Museum
175 Limit Street Battle Creek, MI 49037 (269) 965-5117 Website How to keep the kids busy on a somewhat crappy day. It’s hard to keep finding new things to do indoors. Both of our kids are pretty...
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Chester’s Chicken (Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo)
491 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 382-1122 Website Menu I eat more gas station food than I care to admit. I just started with a new co-worker who was surprised that I can find meals...
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The Spirit of Kalamazoo
154 S. Kalamazoo Mall Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 382-6249 Website Menu The first really nice day of spring, I blogged about our trip to Frosty Boy for some ice cream. I mentioned we wanted to sit...
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