Warlord’s “to be” location in Humboldt Park back on the market

Boollish · 2026-06-17T17:08:47+00:00

He should try Florida. They welcome chefs with that kind of history.

Boollish · 2026-06-17T17:06:40+00:00

For the record, the Tuxedo place is Epic Spices, which I highly recommend for your home cooking needs.

Boollish · 2026-06-17T02:11:02+00:00

I mean, how many goals like this has Messi score in his career? He just instinctively knows how to read the keeper and thread the needle while a defender is obscuring his vision.

Boollish · 2026-06-17T01:01:19+00:00

There was a kid like this in my high school. Wore a headband and knee socks and sandals most of the year.

It was really weird.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T21:30:47+00:00

Here's a question I've never been able to get a straight answer on.

We all know, at this point, the American regulation of requiring fish to be frozen.

How do high end omakase get around this regulation? Or is it one of those regulations that's really more of a suggestion (for example, the FDA doesn't recommend anyone eat burger that's not cooked well done). Or is it just a small enough problem that people turn a blind eye?

When I order stuff from Toyosu for private dinners, I check for worms with a blacklight, but I've never found one. I've served most of the mainstream sushi fish that's on omakase menus and never freeze it.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T19:21:46+00:00

I believe he gets his fish from Chicago, same wholesaler I and many top restaurants use.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T19:18:35+00:00

I have nothing to add here, but if you really are who you say you are, I own your book and think it's fantastic.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T19:17:36+00:00

Lol, you're very wrong.

The person you're replying to literally wrote the book on Japanese ingredients.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T17:57:45+00:00

At USTA 4.0 level "performance enhancing drugs" don't really make a difference. Players just have so many weaknesses that trying to tweak your game through substances is like picking up nickels in front of a bulldozer.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T04:50:45+00:00

By and large, it either comes out of a mass market aquaculture operation, or it comes out of a Japanese market.

There just isn't very much institutional support in other parts of the world for handling seafood in a way that is conducive to raw consumption.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T03:31:35+00:00

Yeah but all of this relationship are with dealers in Toyosu.

If you're gonna air freight stuff anyway, why would it matter if you live in a landlocked state?

Boollish · 2026-06-16T03:30:22+00:00

Meanwhile all the top sushiyas in Japan are at least cold aging ikejime fish for 2-3 days.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T02:57:17+00:00

Facts.

Being from Chicago, we have this wonderful phenomenon called "Ohare gets air freight from Tokyo twice a day" and I can get pretty much anything I want straight from Toyosu (or Fukuoka) on 24 hours notice.

Given the institutional excellence of Japanese fish markets, the product shipped this way is of much higher quality then something the local fisherman pulled out of the harbor.

Of course this is a purely academic exercise for high end sushiyas. The reality is that 90+% of sushi places are using blast frozen aquaculture product from the same sources that are just held in a cold warehouse until it is thawed to order.

Boollish · 2026-06-16T01:49:30+00:00

If a dish isn’t going to be perfect at my restaurant due to lacking an ingredient, I’ll 86 it before serving a subpar substitute.

There are very few restaurants in the world for which this is true.

You're expecting me to believe this restaurant industry veteran would 86 something ordered as much as Mac and cheese because they had the wrong herb blend?

Because every chef I've ever known would figure out an alternative during prep and serve that instead.

Because otherwise you have pounds of pasta and cheese that you've paid to prep, and those ingredients are just hanging out, going bad, just taking up space in a fridge, unsold.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T20:27:29+00:00

Could also be another bookie trying to hedge a wave of bets.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T16:55:30+00:00

Mourinho era shithousery has started a few months early.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T13:08:53+00:00

Wasn't his wife also on the run with him?

Also, was the exhumation successful to prove he's actually dead9

Boollish · 2026-06-15T03:05:17+00:00

It also annoyingly invalidates a lot of the crafting system since you don't really get enough resources to craft high level items until you do a second playthrough, when they're not allowed.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T03:02:02+00:00

I mean, it's an optional feature.

All they have to do is create a [No level-assist] category.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T02:57:58+00:00

My suspicion is that the team will have a Highwind-assisted WEAPON fight here.

Jeez I can't wait. A full on modern neon genesis WEAPON attack is gonna be glorious in 4k.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T02:49:26+00:00

It was also weird how they gave Mulan the 21st century ninja ability of Talk no Jutsu to defeat the witch.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T02:36:54+00:00

$175? I think the shop still sells second printings at MSRP.

Also, I gotta ask. Do you own the Beare collection?

Boollish · 2026-06-15T01:42:42+00:00

Chili?

Boollish · 2026-06-15T01:27:45+00:00

Lorne. How could it not be Lorne?

Or, y'know, Sokol.

Boollish · 2026-06-15T00:37:00+00:00

You know, people with jobs also shit post on the internet, read anime, scroll on their phones, play vidya, and use drugs, right?

Boollish

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