This is a new restaurant that just opened up on 47th, within walking distance of our apartment. We went over for dinner and it was really good.

They have typical Chicago foods like gyros, pizza, fries, grilled cheese (wait that is just typical me fare). Very inexpensive. Pizza is by the slice or the pie, a slice is 92 cents which works out ot exactly $1.00 with tax.

I had a grilled cheese and cheese fries. Sean had a gyro dinner (gryo and fries). We also orded a slice of pizza just to try it.

The grilled cheese was good, it seemed that they did not butter the bread so it was bit more like toast, but nice for a change. The gyro dinner came with a really good garlicy Tazicki sauce. It also came with a bunch of feta cheese, which didn't hurt my feelings any cause Sean doesn't like feta much so I got to eat it. The pizza sauce is sweeter, but that is the way I like it. Even though it is a thin crust it is not crispy. They do have Pan pizza so we might have to try that.

There are only three tables inside, but we ate the and when the thunderstorm started they told us we were wlcome to wait it out. They open until 1 am on Friday and Saturday. It let up to sprinkle fairly quickly and we headed home.

We will definitely go back. Not fine dining, but is is really good for what they serve.

Today was our anniversary, so we decided to go out for dinner. Nicole did a search on metromix and thought Hae Woon Dae sounded like a good choice. It's a Korean Barbecue place at 6240 N. California. The reviews sounded good. (with the exception of someone who clearly was unprepared for eating food from another culture... who orders chicken at a korean restraunt... and too many pickled veggies? Does she complain about German restruants serving too much sausage?) Nicole's Korean co-worker was not familiar with this place, but after our experience, he'll probably have to check it out. Yup. It was good.

If you're unfamiliar with Korean Barbeque, it's one where you cook the meat over a charcoal brazier that they place in the center of your table. The restaurant has several tables in the main seating area, as well as a few "private" rooms on the sides with low tables and cushions. When we arrived, there was only one other table of customers. We were given hot tea, and we ordered bulgogi (marinated beef) and shrimp. We were given 14 different small dishes of assorted sides, including a few different kimchee dishes, tofu, mushrooms, a seaweed salad (fantastic, seemed to be roasted seaweed rather than the kind we get at thai places) potato salad (with rasins), broccoli with carrots (raw!), and several others. The worst of those was "pretty good". Nothing was bad, and nothing was left behind. Shortly after the sides came, a charcoal braizer was brought out and set in the center of the table. The meat came out just after that and was sizeable portions (at least 1 lb of beef and 14-16 large shrimp). We were also given steamed rice and a fantastic miso soup. When the soup came to the table, it was served in small crocks, and was at a rolling boil.

The beef was quite good, fattier than Nicole usually perfers, but between the grilling and the marinade, she was quite happy with it. I'm not nearly as big a fan of shrimp as she is, but I still found them quite good. We would probably not order the shrimp again, simply because of the effort required to cook and eat them. There are plenty of other great things on the menu, so not getting the shrimp is hardly a loss.

The food was great, and there was lots of it, probably more than we really needed. The service was decent, although we did have some communication issues about getting the check, but that was very minor. If you want water, be sure to ask for it.

Hae Woon Dae is highly recommended.

We got off the train at Davis and decided to wander around and see what was there. We've been to Lulu's many times and had it been Tuesday, we probably would have gone there for the all you can eat deal. But we wanted something different. Nicole was in the mood for Mexican, but we didn't find a mexican place and didn't have a whole lot of time to search.

Nicole had heard that the food at Bar Louie was good, so we stopped in and gave it a try. It was "Girl's Night Out" so the "martinis" were $5. Nicole got a "Material Girl" (Pink grapefruit juice and Vodka with a sugar rim). I got a Guinness. The "Material Girl" was okay, worth the $5 but not much more. The Guinness was okay, seemed to be poured properly even though it was in a straight sided glass. It did have the stupid clover drawn in the foam.

For dinner I got a blackend chicken muffaletta sandwich and a side of black beans and rice. The chicken was quite good, but the spicy olive paste wasn't as flavorful as I might like. The beans and rice were served in two seperate dishes, which was surprising. The rice was very good and had a kind of lemon/dill flavor. It went very well with the beans. The coleslaw garnish was pretty mediocre.

Nicole got the regular muffaletta sandwich with fries. The fries were excellent. The sandwich was good, not great.

Not a terribly exciting place to eat, although we would consider going back for some of their specials ($1 burgers).