We started off the day with lattes. Mine was vanilla rose. Spent the late morning/afternoon at Fabcakes.
Breakfast sandwich in a croissant (Egg, tomato, basil, cheddar, and bacon+$0.75) — delicious.
Polish Zapiekanka — an open face french bread melt with caramelized onion, mushroom, swiss cheese. It was meh.
After that, we stopped by Portillo’s — a must for tourists to get a chicagodog.
As per Yelp reviews, we got the Italian beef. The beef was dry and bland and fell out of the sandwich along with 2 slices of peppers.
Our next stop: shopping on Michigan Ave. I love walking down that street, with stores on your right and left. Of course, I had to take a picture of Anthropologie’s storefront.
We were tired from a day of walking around. It was time to meet my cousin for dinner. I had made a reservation at Girl & the Goat MONTHS in advance because I knew this was the “IT” place.
They had an extensive cocktail and wine list.
I loved my cider.
Started off with raw oysters. There was too much pickled flavor for my liking, but those were some good oysters.
Roasted beets salad:Â green beans, white anchovy, avocado creme fraiche, bread crumb. They give you a generous amount of beets, which I love.
One of my favorite dishes here: wood oven roasted pig face with sunny side egg, tamarind, cilantro, red wine-maple, potato stix. They instruct you to destroy it completely to oblivion…
Pig and egg: such a wonderful combination.
Pan fried shishito peppers with parmesan, sesame and miso. Shishito peppers aren’t known to be spicy, but I was lucky enough to get one spicy pepper in there.
Another one of my faves. Pan roasted arctic char with kohlrabi escabeche, miso-harissa, spiced cashew.
Diver scallops with sweet curry, sweet onion-bacon, papadum. Very good but pricey — we had to add a third one for an additional cost.
This one did not work well for me. Confit goat belly with bourbon butter, lobster n’ crab, fennel. The bourbon butter and lobster and crab was an odd combination against the goat belly.
This was surpringly good and not gamey. Goat carpaccio with smoked trout roe and olive-maple vinaigrette.
We added another dish because we really wanted to try everything! duck tongues with tuna and black bean poke, crispy wontons, piri piri. DELICIOUS!!! Perfectly crispy and the whole dish came together.
Dessert time. Our waitress informed us that this was new to the menu. Plantain cake with cream cheese-chocolate chip gelato, passion fruit, left hand milk stout. SO good but we couldn’t finish it.
We also chose two cheeses; the waitress was very knowledgable and knew everything about the menu!
The bill for 3 people.
life on macro. 