I took a vacation day. Needless to say, I worred about how things were going at the office. But I did manage to have a lovely lunch at a restaurant in the Andersonville neighborhood. It’s historically a Swedish neighborhood, and it still contains Swedish bakeries, delis and restaurants. But J. and I went for the odd-ball of that ‘hood, and chose an Algerian crepe restaurant called Icosium Kafe. We started with coffee. Turkish style, but with spices that I’ve never had in coffee before. You could taste the cardamom.
I had the sweet Crepe Bunea. Mango & ginger chutney, sunflower seeds and raisins. A side of ice cream. Just what you need on a vacation day.
….C
kathryn said,
August 13, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Beautiful photos of the food. It beats my ice cream photo any day.
I am going to have to spend more time hanging around the city on a visit.
One plus of being in Chicago is that you can eat Swedish in the morning one day,
Algerian the next meal, Japanese for dinner, and start over with a whole new set
the next day.