Monday, April 27, 2009

No Tweeting on Tuesdays...

5020 North Sheridan road is one of Uptown's most sweetest spoons.

Yelping about Tweet has rated the restaurant at 4.5/5 stars after 253 reviews.

Here's another rave:

To begin, this is the kind of breakfast and brunch joint where you will probably wait
a half-hour for a table... but you'll love it.

If you're like most of the hungry crowd, you'll hang out sipping free coffee. When you notice the condiment bar actually offers Stevia extract, an herbal sugarless sweetener sold at health food stores - you'll begin to see the everyone is welcome atmosphere.

I recommend splurging on one of their spiked juices.

The Bloody Mary - a vegetable garden itself - is a meal on its own.

Then there's all that citrusy champagne stuff that brings decadence to the table.

And all around you, piles of newspapers and magazines are a free-for-all. You'll have to cut through conversations to make your way to your favorite New York Times section, or find yourself with plenty to say about all the wall - hangings.

Yes, it's artsy.

Not to worry about the drinking, though, the portions will be generous enough to absorb that too-early-for-alcohol buzz...

There's alot of Mexican influence on the menu, and then crazy delicious crab-cake concoctions.

Like Benedictine Crab Cakes!

If that sounds yucky to you - don't worry. It took my table over 20 minutes to climb through a two page menu and finally decide what to order.

And no restaurant review would be complete without mentioning the staff.

Our waitress was 50's style - her black hair wrapped back by a bandana, red lipstick popping, ivory complexion, buxom in the pin-up kind of why. Why does that matter?

Well, she was so sweet you couldn't hate her because she was beautiful.

And there was a beautiful showing of busboys from the world all over happy to help in any way they could.

Be prepared to pay in cash, and let yourself go. Before drinks, you'll probably drop a twenty, but you'll feel it was well-spent. Save it for a special occasion, though, so you won't question the drink order.

Tweet before 3pm, but no Tweeting on Tuesdays!

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