april dose recap!

yayyy there was a dose this past sunday! they're such a fun thing to go to to people watch and see new things. this time i went w these fine ladies.

so this thing has like, art and clothes and jewelry..but i'm not rich cultured enough to look through and appreciate all of that stuff.

i tend to just focus on the food at dose. well, that and scoping out random chi-town celebs hehe (still holding onto that one time i walked past ryan poli and kelly zink last fall..)

here's my recap of this month's dose. *surprise* its mostly all about food.

have you heard of an alfajor? well me neither until i stopped by the lucila's homemade table. alfajores are traditional argentinian pastries of dulce de leche caramel sandwiched between crumbly cookies and the edges are rolled in coconut.  and look how pretty they're wrapped! they were really good but def need to be eaten with some tea or coffee. i filled up on samples but bought one to bring back to the boyf. i guess a bit expensive for one little cookie but they were delish, packaged well, and they gave me a cute little bag so my cookie wouldn't get smooshed in my purse.

soo sauces with fried chicken is pretty common. i'm a big fan of hot sauce. mama likes her fried chicken with bbq. ummm well...have you ever thought about a honey butter with your fried drummy? yupppp. that happened. and it's soooooo so good. wuddup honey butter fried chicken (or as i kept saying, honey fried butter...which also could be a really good dish, amiright?) i was really excited when i heard about this place last week on grubstreet and i was not disappointed at all. this is one of the most genius/unexpected things evaaaaar.  the chicken was great on its own. (and i'm usually not that big of a fan of dark meat thanks to mama's drumsticks-for-dinner-overkill of 2001) i think the crust had some smoked paprika, giving it a spicy and smokey taste that worked reallly great against the creamy and sweet honey butter. if it were acceptable, we would've eaten that butter by the spoonful. (slaaaash we did...don't judge) they also were offering a fun sounding veggie side and some fruit tart with bourbon...clearly we know what interests swongy. anywho, they're opening a storefront THIS SUMMER  i'll def go back/picnic/daydrink with some of their deliciousness.

i also tried lamb burger from the peasantry. this was also another place i was excited about because it's being opened by the same dude who opened franks n dawgs.  (fyi franks n dawgs is byob and across the street from the original goose island factory..) the peasantry place is going to be his take on a burger joint ie gyros, etc. so how was the burger? well i'm always a big fan of lamb... and the seasonings in this burger were really awesome and warm (??...haha idk like cumin-y, etc) and worked well with a briney/garlicy sauce. and we were being healthy because there were some olives and edamame in the sauce!!! apparently opening a few blocks from lf and lis in lincoln park? def will be checkin it out

these babies are homemade graham cracker with ginger buttercream from crumb (i think..). the graham crackers were less crumbly compared to the ones in the store and obvs so much better. the buttercream wasn't tooo gingery which was ok because the graham cracker had some cinnamon (or nutmeg?) so it could've easily gotten too overwhelming.

lis got pork carnitas tacos from antique taco, which took approximately forever to get but w/e. the pork was crispy and not dry, yay! and it was really flavorful. there was some queso fresco, lettuce spinach, and BACON on top. apparently lis was expecting avocados and didn't get any..saddies. but these were really good and after reading this red eye article about them i'm very intrigued about the place. if you're too lazy to read the link... one of the owner explains, “I tell people it’s like a taco stand meets farmers market meets Anthropologie … while drinking a canned beer,” ummm like, like, extremely like, love. the storefront is "coming soon" to wicker park. o0o0o0 is it gonna give big star a run for its money!??!?

other notables but i coudn't eat/spend money on but had to take a pic of:

pie pops. how cuuuuute. i've talked about pie pops before but these were from cheap tart instead of hoosier mama.

other notes: lf got provencal garlic almonds and spicy sichuan peanuts from mama's nuts.  she said the almonds were awesome but the peanuts are hard to eat because they're so spicy. minj got an really awesome necklace from shades of grey. the designer was super nice and offered to shorten it on-the-spot and to meet up if she ever wanted to see something in person!