$10 Saturday

June 30th, 2007

In Chicago, the 4th of July means the Taste. Few summer things are as fun or as memorable as eating dozens of helpings of Chicago’s finest. If you go, you must try the rainbow cone and delicious Connie’s pizza. Yum.

I’m saving the experience for later this week, so today my brother and I planned to hit up Lincoln Park’s pizza fest, not quite the Taste, but respectable.

We got there and realized a $5 donation was encouraged just to enter. Since we didn’t know what to expect in the food available, we decided to try our own route.

I mean, really, who needs a festival in a city with thousands of restaurants? Between the two of us, we tried pizza from two places–here and here–rather large “tries,” to be honest, and chocolate and peach ice cream from a great place near Armitage. Total cost? $10/ea.

We paid nothing for parking, little for gas and had a great day in gorgeous weather. We walked to the free Lincoln Park Zoo, visited a water-lily park and checked out neighborhoods Brother is looking into for housing.

This is my idea of fun: food, walking, gorgeous weather, the city. Ah, Saturdays in Chicago.