After sleeping in for what seems like an eternity… Mike finally got up and we got ready to take on the day. Although we had initially planned to have brunch at Cindy’s, the widely popular restaurant was booked, and we decided on venturing to Revolution brewery instead. We picked up Brad in the Uber and were on our way to meet another friend, Kelsey, for brunch.
Revolution Brewing is awesome! The vibe is relaxed, hipster, and a lil bit bourgeois. The food is excellent and the portion sizes are on point! Plus the beer, barley wine, and mixed drinks are superb, andddd they had a promotion where they were giving out free glazed doughnuts. Our server was the perfect amount of talkative, speedy (despite how crowded it was), and informative. Overall I would rate my experience here 8.5/10 with the only points being taken off for rowdy children and how busy it was (which I suppose is a good thing for the restaurant).
Our next stop of the day was Off- Color brewing for their Saison day. Now I mean this in the best way possible; Mike is a beer snob 100%. He also tends to favor saison’s so he was a little amped for this event. After tasting an assortment of the beers on tap, we hung out for the next couple hours chatting with each other and playing with this cute, chubby-cheeked, Gerber-baby <3 <3 Now there is only so much drinking and social interaction a person can handle, so we decided to part ways and regroup after a necessary nap time. #engineers
Nap time lasted a little longer than expected so by the time we finally got ready, it was already 9pm. Mike and I were hoping to hit up this place called the Milk Room (also located in the same building as Cindy’s, the Chicago Athletic Association). Instead we stumbled upon this cool bar called the game room! As you can imagine, the theme was an old-school meets new-school type bar filled with TV screens, and bar games including shuffleboard, lawn bowling, and chess. We stuck around for a drink then met up with Brad at String’s Ramen in china town.
YOOOOO… the ramen was delicious. The restaurant was still pretty busy despite it being around 11pm, and for very good reason. I got their specialty called Hell Ramen, which is apparently supposed to be extremely good, and varies in the level of spiciness (Levels 1-5). I was a little worried that North Dakota destroyed my tolerance for spice, so I only got level 1, but I easily could have handled Level 3. Thank goodness they had their chili sauce on the tables BUT the ramen was still absolutely scrumptious.
After supper we ventured down the block to a karaoke place. As you know, I have a slight affinity towards singing karaoke… but I have mixed feelings about this particular place. The bar itself had a 25$ cover charge that included two tickets for drinks. Overall not a bad deal. The seats were comfortable, and the patrons were vibing to the songs. The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way was the procedure for selecting songs. At one point there was a person working near the touch-screen song selection machine that helped you navigate through to find your song. OK, that’s fine since and all, but he would only let each person select one song, so you couldn’t pick a song for your friend who was guarding your places at the table. Whatever, we just rotated, NBD. However, when the guy stopped working the machine, it was almost anarchy. People just started signing up for the most ridiculous songs willy nilly. I was unable to find any of the songs I wanted to song because all of the organizational tabs WERE IN CHINESE. Ugh. Overall it was fun, but there are definitely some improvements needed here. We left karaoke at bar close, and went home to sleep.