Chipotle

Ontario, near Columbus/Fairbanks. Lunch. Chicken fajita bol: delicious.

Ordered online, ready on time (maybe early). Kinda skimped on the rice and veggies ... maybe on everything, the bowl was awfully empty.

Capital Grille

St. Clair near Ohio(?). Spinach salad w/ warm bacon dressing (and mushroom and boiled egg): OK. 14-oz. dry-aged sirloin, medium-rare/medium: very good. Special veggie of the day (fresh corn off the cob with poblano peppers): delicious.

Cosi

Clark, near Washington. Lunch. Some kind of lime/guacamole chicken and tomato sandwich: delicious.

Penny's

Damen/Pierce. Dinner, take-out. Gyoza: delicious. Pad thai w/ chicken: delicious.

Why do they always run out of Vietnamese spring rolls? :-(

Blind Faith Cafe

Dempster/Chicago, Evanston. Lunch: Mongolian seitan stirfry: delicious again.

Asked for fast service, so we could buy the car, and we got very fast service.

Indian Garden

Ontario, near Columbus/Fairbanks. Dinner. Veggie samosa: very good, very hot. Garlic naan: very good. Chicken tikki masala: pretty good, spiciness built up. Aloo gobi: not bad.

Fast meal as always. Perfect for rushing to the AMC River East.

Monk's Pub

Lake, near Wells. Lunch. Bacon burger w/ Swiss, well done: very good. Curly fries: very good. $13 w/ tip. Worth going back.

Nam Viet

Northwest Hwy. Dinner. Spring rolls w/ shrimp: very good. Chicken w/ spicy garlic sauce: good, pretty spicy, sauce not goopy. Shrimp, chicken, and pork, w/ veggies, over fried rice noodles: very good.

Hong Kong Bay

Wells, south of North. Dinner. Hamachi: very good, maybe weirdly dry. Tuna: very good, maybe weirdly dry. Egg rolls: revolting, pate-like stuffing. Kung pao chicken: good, but the sauce was goopy. Something else: OK.

Possibly better than Papajin, but not great.

Penny's

Lunch. Vietnamese spring rolls: delicious. Gyoza: delicious. Hot pepper noodle w/ chicken: delicious. Lad nar w/ chicken: delicious.

Oysy

Dinner. Veggie tempura: good, very interesting veggies, including rice noodles! Shrimp tempura: good, maybe too-heavily breaded, enormous. Hamachi: delicious. Tuna: good, but kind of had the unbitable chewy strip in it like the sake had last time. Spicy tuna roll: just OK. Shrimp tempura roll: not that good after all.

Chipotle

Lunch. Chicken fajita bol: delicious.

Pretty short line.

Blue Bayou

Buffalo chicken sandwich, no blue cheese dressing: very good. House salad w/ ginger vinaigrette: fine. Jambalaya: terrible, very dry, no moisture whatsoever.

L. Woods

Small tomato, cucumber, and onion salad: enormous and very good. Wet ribs: very good. BBQ chicken: breast was very very dry, dark meat was better. Free crispy bread w/ pesto: not bad ... nice to get a freebie from the manager for first-timers though!

VTK

Curry potstickers: OK, not too curry-ish, but not great. Chopped chicken salad: very big, and very good. Crunchy noodles w/ spicy chicken: good.