dinner at Charlie Trotter's

On March 8, we went to Charlie Trotter's in Chicago to celebrate two 40th birthdays. Suzette will be 40 in a few days, and my running partner Tim actually turned 40 that day. I can honestly say that our dinner at Charlie Trotter's was the best meal I've ever had.

For a lot more photos, please visit my Flickr page.

We checked into the Radisson Hotel and Suites Chicago around 4:15. The hotel is under renovation, which is a pain. You actually have to go outside to walk from the lobby to the elevators or the pub. Fortunately, the rooms we reserved were not available and we were upgraded to a junior suite.

we walked around Michigan Avenue...

We met up with Tim and Thea around 7:15 and walked over to the Elephant and Castle pub. We had a light snack and some good beer - the Fuller's ESB was great but the Fuller's London Porter wasn't as good as usual.

We left around 8:30 and grabbed a cab to Charlie Trotter's. We arrived early and only waited a few minutes for our table. We could have had dinner at 6:00, but we wanted to eat at the kitchen table which was only available at 9:00 that night.

More details to come. It took over 3 hours to finish dinner!



- schneid