chicago foodie girl

One of the most interesting and enterprising trends in the dining scene to come out of this trying time is the explosion of ghost kitchen...

In the sea of Thai restaurants on the Far North Side of Chicago, there's a small BYOB spot in Edgewater that has been making a massive s...

Located along a bustling stretch of Chicago Ave. in West Town (one of my favorite foodie areas in the city!), JJ Thai Street Food ...

Located right off the bustling Broadway and Argyle intersection (a neighborhood known for some of the best Southeast Asian restaurants in ...

Tum Thai Salad from Immm Rice & Beyond While most of this year has been complicated, confusing, and difficult for so many, numerou...

Tap, tap, tap... is this thing on? *Ahem.* How do I even start this post? Suffice to say that I didn't intend to disappear for five mont...

As soon as I stopped by Ina Mae Tavern for the first time shortly after it opened in 2018, I knew it was going to become one of my favo...

If you follow me on Instagram , you may recall me mentioning earlier this month that one of my goals for this year is to feature mo...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season and start to 2020. As per usual, I spent the first few weeks of my winter bre...

As you all know by now, I am a huge fan of a good afternoon tea service. It's funny because in my day-to-day life, other than chai, ...

As I've mentioned here before, I have a soft spot for Wisconsin. I spent my undergraduate years there and have fond memories of the...

Happy Monday and happy fall! Although we're mostly in summer daytime weather mode around here, I'm still super excited to see the...

Chicago has been known as a meat-and-potatoes kind of town since the days in which the stockyards made it the largest producer of meat. Wh...

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer. Can you believe we're already heading toward the end of July?! It feels lik...

After my very first   visit to Mexico back in 2017, I caught the travel bug for that beautiful country. As you may remember, the exper...

I spent most of my free time during my senior year of college (oh so many years ago) exploring everything that Madison, WI had to offer....

I can't even begin to tell you how many times over the years people have asked me what I do with all of my free time during my sem...