Subject: Flameless-Candle with 100k hours-of-light

From: "Luma Candles" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:58:46 -0700

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favorite restaurant in Chicago. And no one else compares. First, the food here is incredible. The menu changes often (or so I'm told), and the current menu's praises have been sung over and over again: the food is delicious, it's perfectly cooked (or close to it), it's fresh, it's eclectic, and it's varied. But I think what really impresses me is that the food is also somewhat... surprising, unexpected. Things that I really would not think go together-- really DO. Standouts on this front, I think, are the Roasted Cauliflower (with pickled peppers, pine nuts, mint, and parmesan cheese); the Skuna Bay Salmon (with lamb sausage, grilled blueberries, pepitas, and chimichurri); and the Goat Confit Belly (with crab and lobster, fennel, and vanilla-bourbon butter). Seriously, Walk, or perhaps Run, but do not pass Go, and try these dishes-- or probably anything else on this menu-- as quickly as you can. The prices here are absolutely reasonable. Each time I came, I gorged myself on way t
oo many dishes and left with a full stomach and a surprisingly un-empty purse. But what really, really puts the icing on this cake is the service. I cannot tell you how lovely, friendly, and accommodating the waitstaff here was. (And frankly, this isn't true of a lot of the "fancier" places in Chicago, where I often feel judged or looked down upon for being young.) My sister is mildly allergic to cheese, and so we asked for one of the dishes sans cheese and another just "as is"-- she just wasn't going to try it. But they actually prepared a smaller dish just for her of both, so that we could have the dishes as the kitchen intended and she didn't have to miss out, either. They also answered all the questions we had about the dishes and were even quick to comp a dish after my mother casually mentioned that the vegetables were a little overcharred. Needless to say, we left a really large tip. Here's the part of the review where I dip back into the "chorus" just before fadeout, just in
case you didn't get it the other twenty times I (or any other reviewer) said it: this restaurant is awesome, and Stephanie Izard is a rockstar. Like all the other posts have mentioned, they serve what they call "small" dishes to be shared amongst everyone in categories of Vegetables, Fish, and Meat as well as evening specials. Our evening specials consisted of bread, oysters, and goat. We ordered the Pretzel bread, Roasted Cauliflower, Grilled Baby Octopus, Ham Frites, Lamb Tartare, and Crisp Braised Pork Shank. Would I go back? Nah, the flavors just didn't meld with my palate. I kept trying to figure out the food and the thought behind it. To me, it seemed like a bunch of great ingredients prepared well and thrown together that ends up being a not-so-great dish. The food was way too greasy for me. I, also, thought the portions were huge. I would have preferred smaller portions with lower prices so I could have room try a bit of everything. The best way to describe it is: it
's not a meal, but more of an journey. It left me with may different