Reviews – Page 2

Mar 15 2011

REVIEW: Free Supper at Lou Malnati’s Pizza

Okay I’m back on Fort St John now, so I suppose I really should catch up on all the blog posts I wanted to do on my trip to Chicago. I figure a good way to continue posts about Chicago I should tell you about Lou Malnati’s.

Lou Malnati’s is a famous Chicago Deep Dish Pizzeria. The pizza is like no other. A thick 2″ tall crust, cheese underneath pizza sauce and all the ingredients. It is almost impossible to eat by hand it is so hardy.

The atmosphere of the place is great, so was the service. You could see the history on the walls and in the staff.

What makes our story of Lou Malnati’s so special was the fact we ended up with a free meal, which we can thank Andrew for once again. While our waitress was serving us our drinks her tray lost balance and tipped towards a wall behind Andrew. So Andrew reacting to the falling glasses reached out to prevent them from falling further, unfortunately one of the glasses had broken before hand and sliced one of Andrews fingers. There was blood, but it didn’t seems all that bad. Martin and Andrew disappeared to bandage him up. You could instantly tell the restuarant was very sorry about it and did everything they could to accomidate us.

We ended up with a completely free meal with dessert. Thanks Andrew.

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See all the photo from Lou Malnati’s on Flickr.

Mar 07 2011

REVIEW: Su Casa in Chicago

Su Casa is your average everyday Mexican restaurant in Chicago. Located on East Ontario St it offers authentic Mexican cuisine.

I’m actually not a big fan of Mexican food, but I managed to order something I could down. Although I’m not a find of the side of beans and paste with every dish. Lets back it up for a second though.

The restaurant was obviously older, which you could tell from the structure and inner decor. The place wasn’t crowed, but there wasn’t a lot of room either. Luckily we were able to get a comfortable table to seat the six of us.

The nacho chips with salsa and guacamole on every table was a nice touch and served as a good appy. The menu wasn’t bad, what I found bad was not knowing what most of the items where. So naturally I saw the word steak and ordered it.

It was steak shavings with lettus, tomatoes, rice and bean paste on the site. It wasn’t bad. Deffinitely not a favourite and I don’t think I would return on my own free will.

That being said, some of the others I was with, did in fact enjoy there meal, so don’t write this place off entirely.

There seemed to be a large amount of wait staff running around serving people and taking orders. For the most part they were really good and continuously made sure we were happy.

We all of course had fun and had a great meal altogether for the first time in a while.

Any recommendations on where we should go tonight in Chicago?

Feb 21 2011

No, I am number four

Saw I Am Number Four last night and it was meh. Meh in the sense that It felt like the movie never really finished, it never really hit a climax.

Spoiler Alert: I give away the simple plot that makes this movie.

We meet John, John is different from another planet. He is running, running from big ugly alien linebackers. He is tired of running. John meets girl, then the cycle goes like: in love, not in love, in love, not in love, but finally they are in love, but he has to leave.

They fight big uglies and meeting Number Six, she’s hot and Aussie. Nerd kids gets involved, cause Dad was a UFO chaser and he is good at xBox.

I Am Number Four

The movie is a good little high-school action flick, unlike Twilight which is completely boring. I suppose one reason for not have a high impact storyline is this is a trilogy and they have to keep some stuff at bay for future movie, right? What action movie these days isn’t made for a sequel?

If you go, which if you just want a movie to go see to let your mind wonder I recommend it, let me know what you think below.

Apr 04 2010

Thoughts on the iPad

I thought I would spend sometime today and write out my thoughts on the iPad, a new Apple device I happened to purchase the day of its launch.

Overall I keep telling people that it is just as good or better than expected. As a heavy iPhone user, this is something I was longing for as I could see the potential in the device but found its size hard to use. At the same time I have heard many complain that it is to big, men break out those man purses, and to hard to carry around. I personally don’t think so, but I’m someone who often has a backpack or messenger bag with my MacBook Pro in it. I can definitely see this device allowing me to leave that MacBook at home. Carrying the device is much like carrying a 8.5×11 notebook around or even a hardcover book for that matter, as iPad is also being marketed as an e-reader.

Lets look at the usability of the iPad. With it being a steroid injected iPod touch….. READ THE FULL POST ON WithMedia.ca