A BLUSTERY DAY

Happy Monday to all!  I hope everyone had a fab weekend.  I spent this weekend spending time with The Hubster, the pupper, and my fam.  I also got my hair touched up since my roots were getting a little long.  Not too much excitement.  Felt good to take a break from the night life.  Even though I had multiple living room dance parties throughout the weekend.  Guestlist of 2:  Wrigley and myself.

These shots were taken on Sunday when we had the most amazing November weather.  It felt like it was about 70 degrees when you were under the sun.  I didn't think I'd be wearing shorts in November, that's fo sho.  But of course Chicago can't make it 100% perfect.  Along with the unseasonably warm temperatures, it was crazy windy.  But having experience Chicago winds, it really wasn't THAT bad.  We took the puppers out for a stroll around our hood.  We stopped to get some coffee at Intelligentsia and checked out some hats at Goorin Bros. Hat Shop on Broadway.  Wrigley had so much fun on his walk and met some other doggies along the way.  Wrigley has the worst doggie manners and gets his nose all up around other doggies' butts and junk.  So embarrassing but hilare at the same time.  We are bad parents and don't take him out for long walks as much as we should so we can only really blame ourselves.

The Hubster got skillz.  Photog-ing while holding onto Wrigley.

I was reppin' the Bulls this day.  Basketball is about the only sport I can tolerate watching.  And of course I am a Bulls fan and also part of the D-Rose bandwagon.  Woot!  Although I have no idea what's going on in basketball right now since The Hubs is busy with his football.  =P

BTW, thanks to everyone who commented and checked out the first post of my Le Dinner series.  More to come soon!  And feel free to leave me recipes to try!  Maybe it will end up on the series.  Please note that I do not bake.  My utter disregard in measuring things out makes me a horrid baker so I don't even try.  I eyeball everything and get mad when it doesn't come out perfect.  I think the only thing I can successfully do is banana nut bread.  So maybe you will see that one on the blog.

Cardigan - Barneys Coop (similar)  |  Tee - Juicy Couture (similar)  |  Shorts - 7 For All Mankind  |  Boots - Oasap  |  Legwarmers - old (similar)  |  Bag - BCBG  |  Watch - Chanel  |  Sunnies - Oliver Peoples  |  Earrings - Urban Outfitters

xoxo,

DOS

DRUNK ON FROG N SNAIL

This past Sunday I had a very special brunch date with my darling Laurz.  She is much better than I am at finding good eats so of course I left it up to her to find our brunch spot.  And man, did she deliver!  I decided to clean out my purse before I left.  I always end up with so many balled up receipts and random junk and am usually really bad at cleaning out my bags.  Most of them have random items still sitting inside.  I left The Hubster at home to enjoy his football.  Our Sundays have been spent apart since I have zero interest in football.  I was glad to have a brunch date to get away from the sounds of penalties and touchdowns.  

Poor Wrigley.  He always knows when I'm about to leave and starts whimpering in my face.

I went and picked up Laurz and a few minutes later we arrived at...

The best part is that this place is in our hood!  

There is a frog and snail to watch over you.  Adorbs!

We spent a good 15 minutes staring at the menu.  This is on top of the hour I spent at home the night before trying to decide what to order.  The entire menu looks so amazing and everything sounds incredibly delicious.  After staring for so long, Laurz and I both admitted that we wished we brought more people with us so that we could try more dishes.  Hahaha.  I call that the "dim sum" strategy.  You never want to go to dim sum with less than 4 people.  Good thing this place is so close because I will definitely be back to try the rest of the brunch menu.  And if this brunch menu is anything like their dinner menu, I'll be back for that too!

They have this thing called Mimosa Bottle Service.  Those three words never sounded so good!  You get a bottle of champagne and three types of mixers to play with along with the classic OJ.  We went with grapefruit, blueberry, and pumpkin.  I must say, champagne with OJ and blueberry syrup is a fantastic combo.  Daytime drinking has never been so fancy and never been so gooooood.  It was a fun and playful experience.  Utterly genius.

Laurz adding some pumpkin into her mimosa.

This, my dear friends, is the Lyonnaise salad.  As soon as I read "frisee" I knew I had to try it.

The Lyonnaise has frisee, frites, lardon, radish, haricot verts, and beets tossed in a truffle vinaigrette and topped with a perfectly made poached egg.  Putting little french fries in a salad has got to be the best idea eva!  This salad is light and perfect.  The dressing wasn't too heavy so you could really taste the freshness of the greens.  I would have preferred it more drenched in dressing but that's just my inner fat kid talking.  I appreciate when restaurants actually make sure that I taste my veggies and not just the dressing.  It was a perfect starter for us to share.  Laurz allowed me the honor of poking the poached egg and letting the yolk ooze all over.  Nothing is better than watching an egg yolk ooze all over a plate.  Nam sayin'?

Hello Mr. Egg.  You were a pleasure to demolish.

Laurz did get her chance to poke her own poached egg.  Did that sound dirty?  Hmmmmmmm... no.  Okay, maybe a little.  Here is the duck hash.  There is something extremely special about this hash.  There is a surprise on the bottom.  And that surprise would be... banana bread.  It's got that perfect blend of savory and sweet on one plate.  But if that's not your kind of thing, then skip this one... also... you are weird.

This is the Shrimp N Grits.  Holy crap this one was good.  The shrimp, corn and mushrooms were soaked in what I could only describe to be a buttery pool of heaven.  Also, have you noticed a recurring theme here?  There seems to be a poached egg on everything!  I love that!  Even our server said, when you want to make a dish even more fantastic, "put an egg on it."  And I couldn't agree more.  Now I am going to try to poach an egg.  Wish me luck!  Laurz says there is some sort of tornado method that is supposed to help.  Already, I am scared.  Maybe Chef Dale Levitski will teach me how to poach an egg one day.  Chef, if you read this, that was a real request.  Can a girl get a egg poaching lesson please?!  Also, amazing job on the restaurant.  Love the decor, love the food, love the location, and love the mimosas!  Digi high five!

Always a fab time with this lady =)

Everyone go check out Frog N Snail and brunch it up!

You can make reservations via Open Table

3124 North Broadway  |  Chicago, IL 60657

www.frognsnail.com

xoxo,

DOS