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A once- favoured first date spot which I overused and now only go to alone, either to smoke furiously in the yard if in a mood about something, or to watch Jeopardy at the bar with the bartender and other strays
Jul 25, 2023
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We have a spot by us that’s been here for something like 75 years. They have a dish on the menu called “meatball salad” that is better than it sounds. The walls are wood paneled. We come here every few weeks to dish with our favorite bartender—she lives on our block—about all the hot new neighborhood gossip. They’re filming “The Bear” on our block and there’s absolutely no parking. We’re all inconvenienced, let’s dish! She makes a great club soda with lime and my husband always asks what the specials are from the kitchen. It’s cash only. Chicago, we love you because you’re made up of dives like this, dotting corners in every neighborhood of this town.
Mar 31, 2025
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🎶First time trying a spot a couple blocks from me and wow it won’t be the last. Especially funny that I fled my usual spot for noise/bad music and ended up somewhere so delectable.
Mar 12, 2024
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🌉I’m a huge advocate of crossing a bridge every day by foot. When I’m depressed I can’t do anything much, can’t do a proper work out or cook a meal or read or write, but I can always manage to cross a bridge. In London this means walking from my place in South East into town across Waterloo Bridge to go to therapy or the library, and in New York I like going from Clinton Hill across the Manhattan Bridge, usually just to go into Lovely Day thai cafe and eat something and turn right back around. Better than nothing!!
Jul 25, 2023
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🎵Everyone who loves Sibylle Baier really loves Sibylle Baier. If you go on a date and the other person is also a Sibylle fan then you have to fall in love. She’s this amazing German folk singer who made recordings in the 1970s which were only released in 2006. Her song Colour Green is the best song to walk sadly across bridges to, in my opinion.
Jul 25, 2023
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🎙I’m unbearable about karaoke. In my place in London it is functionally impossible to come round and have drinks without me at some point insisting it’s karaoke time. I’m a show off cause I believe I should have been a famous singer but was prevented by a tragic lack of any actual musical ability except a nice singing voice which I am steadily destroying with cigs. My current standards are Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor and You Got It by Roy Orbison
Jul 25, 2023