Last Friday we joined a couple of friends after work and headed over to Amitabul, a restaurant featuring vegan Korean food. This is a great place that is very different from the vegan restaurant we visited a couple weeks ago. Whereas Karyn's cooked tried to replicate meat based comfort foods with vegan ingredients, Amitabul centralized a wide variety of really tastily prepared vegtables. We each ordered a dish and then shared, and they ran the gamut from mildly to wildly spicy, from salty to fruity sauces, with mushrooms, peppers, rice, noodles, etc etc. The servers were very friendly and the atmosphere very cozy and warm. To top it off, this restaurant is very low priced. We had a meal for 4 with an appetizer for under $60. The only possible drawback is that it's located on the NW corner of the city, near the Superdog on Milwaukee and Devon, so it's a little bit of a haul -- but well worth it!
After dinner we stopped in at the Cafe Selmarie for dessert. I had a truly amazing chocolate mousse cake. Kate had orange chocolate decadence which was good, but not as good as the aforementioned mousse. Our friends had cherry pie.
Fun fact: In the middle of our desserts two strange women came up to me and one asked if I knew who she was. Of course I didn't initially, not having a context in which to place her. But then I realized it was my old friend Margie, who I went to high school with here in Chicago roughly 30 years ago! She currently lives in Oregon and was just in town visiting her family for the weekend. What are the chances that the two of us would meet up and recognize each other in this huge city? Amazing!
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