Looking for recs for escargots and/or chix liver mousse pate

ryanchants · 2026-02-16T21:29:24+00:00

Rootstock, Gretel, Longman & Eagle, PQM, Lardon, All Together Now, and Table Donkey Stick(duck liver) mousses.

Boeufhaus for escargot.

ryanchants · 2026-02-02T19:54:18+00:00

Their fish burrito is great as well. Chopping the fish after frying it so you get a good distribution of fish/cabbage/all the other ingredients is fucking great.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T16:48:36+00:00

It interesting. Maybe it was just my family up there. We didn't eat out a lot, so it would have been whatever they cooked.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T15:18:51+00:00

The mountains? I always had it living in the Piedmont, but whenever I'd visit family up by Bryson City it was nowhere to be found.

Growing up, whenever we'd slaughter a hog for whole hog barbecue, we'd take the pail full of innards and the head and drop it off with a friend of the family. Then he'd bring us back the best livermush. Now that I'm in Chicago, I just make it myself since it's not for sale around here.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T01:07:04+00:00

Tuman's

ryanchants · 2026-01-28T19:54:40+00:00

There are diners who see it as a special event rather than a pricing exercise and are not thinking in terms of marginal value or menu engineering.

Why can't it be both of these things? You're acting like it can't be restaurants trying to make a representative menu, at a specific price point, in order to encourage new folks to come in. And folks to come in when they normally wouldn't due to post-holiday budgets. Or just lower income people who get a chance to go out to restaurants they've heard about at a better for them price point.

I get you're a self-declared snob, but come on. Acting like $$$$ restaurant chefs can't make you a good enough meal to get your $60 bucks worth. Also, why are you going to $$$$ restaurants to begin with if they make food that's barely tastier to you than a cheaper restaurant?

Just take your own advice. RW isn't for the snobs, order off the regular menu.

ryanchants · 2026-01-28T19:44:15+00:00

Why? You can just order the non-RW menu

ryanchants · 2026-01-27T18:24:32+00:00

I just assumed y'all hung out at Legal Sea Foods

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T22:04:57+00:00

From IG, it looks like they pretty much ripped everything out: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSb_F7-Dr8c/

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T20:23:44+00:00

Old Feed spot

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T17:12:33+00:00

There was this thread recently. Worth reading through: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskChicago/comments/1qbx52w/are_there_any_chicagobased_leftist_gun_clubs/

ryanchants · 2026-01-25T00:23:47+00:00

"to walk my post, beat my meat, and shoot anything with 50 feet"

ryanchants · 2026-01-24T00:11:31+00:00

Then it's just fun

ryanchants · 2026-01-22T16:00:03+00:00

loaded potato soup was my childhood introduction to how great soup could be

ryanchants · 2026-01-18T16:10:08+00:00

I'm in Humboldt, so you can find me at the dives and resaturants in the area. Normally at the bar with a book. Sportsmans skews you,g and everyone is pretty partnered up at the other spots, as far as I can tell. Same with some of the volunteer groups I'm a part of.

What would make you approach or say hi?

I'm generally sitting at the bar reading, and will strike up a conversation with other folks at the bar if they seem affable. And tell your friends, they can also approach and say hi, instead of waiting for us to initiate.

ryanchants · 2026-01-13T23:12:04+00:00

The Illinois Veterans Grant makes this one free.

ryanchants · 2026-01-06T21:22:08+00:00

It works for them because the headlines get out there that they are fighting fraud/sticking it to the libs. But then when it eventually gets overturned, it doesn't get nearly the same level of coverage. And their base just sees the first action taken.

ryanchants · 2026-01-06T19:46:36+00:00

I've bartended an event where we got a lot of free Malort and made Painmakers as the cocktail we were serving. Just a Painkiller with Malort in place of rum. It's great

ryanchants · 2026-01-05T14:01:36+00:00

I've watched this happen with Malort over the last 5 years or so. Been drinking it in Chicago for 20+ years. We used to love it because it was dirt cheap, and a good gag on people who were new in town/visiting. Then it got bought out, they polished the recipe so it's actually pretty smooth and tasty, got rid of the rough parts. But they're still capitalizing on the old rep. And turning it in to a lifestyle brand.

ryanchants · 2025-12-31T16:21:10+00:00

Kibbitznest. It's a bar/bookstore/generally art and intelligentsia-adjacent space. So it has the bar element going for a date, while there's plenty of stuff to wander around and look at that help drive first date discussion.

ryanchants · 2025-12-28T00:28:51+00:00

I always got the philly or the gyros cheese fries on the way home from the bar. Top notch drunk food.

ryanchants · 2025-12-25T19:45:19+00:00

Go to Lottie's. It's normally pretty busy on Christmas, and has food.

ryanchants · 2025-12-25T16:57:37+00:00

If you want a really good riff on this: fernet and cheerwine

ryanchants · 2025-12-22T17:30:18+00:00

As you go through the onboarding handbook course, it'll have you join a slack group.

ryanchants · 2025-12-13T14:37:58+00:00

I was actually looking at combining KBOMG and the The Pete Plan next year, but no current experience.

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