This past weekend, Neill and I went down to Chicago for the Chicago Marathon. No no, sillies, we weren’t running in it. We were volunteering, which basically consisted of standing by a cop during the race and doing “crowd-control.” If I wasn’t there, I’m pretty sure utter chaos would have ensued.

Anyway, I knew we were going to be down there, so I gave my friend, Matty Vag, a call and asked if we could see him. He manages a restaurant down there called Bistro 110. Matt couldn’t get off of work, but invited us to come have dinner down there, so we did. I wish we had brought our camera to take a picture of the meal, because my description won’t do it justice.

Neill and I had the same basic dinner.

1. French Onion Soup
2. Steak Aux Poive et Gallette de Pomme de Terre
3. Some crazy dessert with this chocolate cake with a toffee coating, these little cream puff-type things that had ice cream in the middle instead of cream, and then some Creme Brulee.
4. A few drinks, ranging from bloody marys to beer to mixed cocktails.

The soup was awesome–lots of cheese and not watered down like some restaurants do. The steak was crusted in this pepper stuff and was an awesome cut–a little too much pepper for my liking, but it was still good. It also came with this potato that Matt said they cut into 150 tiny slices, then throw a ton of butter and garlic into it and bake it. It was awesome–like nothing I’ve ever had before. Then the dessert, even though we were full, was a special surprise from Matt–I guess it’s not something they normally serve. Quite tasty though.

Something else we didn’t get that sounded good were this pumpkin soup. Real basic recipe. Pumpkin, stick of butter, salt and pepper. Served in an actual mini-pumpkin. Neat presentation idea.

So, I definately recommend that everyone stop down to Bistro 110 if you are in Chicago. Great restaurant with great service as well. Thanks for having us, Vag!