Dinner With Deichman

December 12th, 2007 by zen

The esteemed Shane liveblogged our pierogies and beer consumption, both of which was ample. Glad to catch him as he passed through Chicago. Even happier to have not been walloped with an icestorm while driving to O’Hare. LOL!

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  1. Dave Schuler:

    December 12th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Sheesh.  That’s ten minutes or so away from me.  Where did you go and how were the pierogi?

  2. deichmans:

    December 12th, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    Possum Pub — and the pierogies were excellent!  We each got a variety (mushroom and cheese, spinach and meat, etc.).

  3. zen:

    December 13th, 2007 at 3:44 am

    Dave,

    Man! I’m sorry! I had no idea that you were that close to O’Hare – I picked up Shane and we randomly headed south on Mannheim until we hit a pizza place ( which was take out only) and then went next door to Possum’s.

    Pierogi was good – as heavy as the Slavic accent of the girl behind the bar. Personally, I liked the kraut and mushroom and onion and potato best.

    Now I know. A lot of bloggers pass through O’Hare – I’ve missed connecting with Dan and a few others, next time I can get out there, I’ll make certain you get the call as well.

  4. Dave Schuler:

    December 13th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    That would be great.  I’m just a quick hop up the Kennedy to O’Hare.

  5. CKR:

    December 13th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Sniff. I’ll expect pirukad and õlut the next time I’m there.  

  6. Sean Meade:

    December 13th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    REALLY jealous. hope i get the chance sometime! 🙂

  7. Dave Schuler:

    December 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Is there a Finnish restaurant or even a Finnish bar in Chicago?  I don’t know of one. Nor Estonian nor Latvian.

  8. zen:

    December 14th, 2007 at 2:33 am

    We need a mini-blogcon for a larger get-together the next time somebody is flying in – maybe with, say, a month’s notice or so we can get all the schedules to work and a nice location selected.

    Hmmm….Baltic cuisine is a tall order Cheryl….Western or Eastern Slavic is easier but I’ll see what I can find…I thought there used to be some Lithuanian parishes in Chicago when I was a kid but perhaps they have disappeared to the collar counties.

  9. Dave Schuler:

    December 14th, 2007 at 4:34 am

    There are still good Lithuanian restaurants down around 70th Street.   Tulpe’s still operating, isn’t it?

  10. Dave Schuler:

    December 14th, 2007 at 4:36 am

    Tons of Polish, Russian, Georgian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian here on the Northwest Side.

  11. zen:

    December 14th, 2007 at 4:59 am

    Georgian sounds interesting….so does Croatian. Never had either.

  12. CKR:

    December 14th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    …as long as they’ve got frozen vodka…

  13. zen:

    December 14th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    "…as long as they’ve got frozen vodka…"

    Ha! Spoken like someone who has chilled their vodka on the snowy ledge outside their Soviet hotel window :O)