Second Trip - December 2010

December 2010 - Chicago, again.

After our November trip to Chicago, Jon and I decided we wanted to go back to experience Christmas in Chicago.  We asked his parents, Mrs. B and Peej, to join us on this trip to visit Linds again.

During this trip, we got to experience all that Chicago had to offer at Christmas time.  The Xmas lights throughout downtown, the horse drawn carriage rides (we didn't go on one...maybe this year), the live bands outside of Macy's playing holiday music, the inside of Macy's with decorations seeming to have exploded all over the store, the Science Museum Christmas Trees of the World display, the Christkindlmarket (German marketplace) and.....the food :)

This was a shorter trip than the one in November, so our eating options were limited.  Linds took us to CPOG (Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co).  The building CPOG is in has quite a history behind it involving the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, check it out here....http://www.chicagopizzaandovengrinder.com/history.htm.

This restaurant was featured on a Food Network show called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate".  CPOG is famous for their pizza pot pie's.  The Pizza Pot Pie is an individual serving, "made from scratch" with triple-raised Sicilian bread-type dough; a homemade sauce consisting of olive oil, fresh garlic, onions, green peppers, whole plum tomatoes and a special blend of cheeses; sausage made from prime Boston butts; and doorknob-size, whole, fresh mushrooms (as an option).  The waiter brings the pot pie to your table and flips it out of the bowl, turning the pot pie top crust (top right in picture), into the bottom crust of your pizza (bottom left in picture)!

As Linds had already been to CPOG before, at her suggestion, we also ordered the Mediterranean Bread (it's a flat bread that is easy to pull apart, seasoned just right), and the Antipasto platter as an appetizer. Delizioso!

  



Even though Lindsay moved to Miami, FL the next month, we hope to visit Chicago once a year :)