Showing posts with label restaurant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restaurant. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

A Restaurant High in the Arctic Circle

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When a restaurant is high in the Arctic Circle, and most ingredients have to come in on a boat or a plane, you have to get pretty creative with your fine dining. That means seal, whale, reindeer – and plankton?

Many of the dishes at Huset – established October, 1951 – are served on stones collected from the nearby hills, which are thick with fossils.

Longyearbyen, on whose outskirts Huset sits, is the northernmost permanent settlement of more than 1,000 people in the world, a mere 800 miles (1,288 km) from the North Pole.

Up here, where there is night for four months of the year, not much grows. But there is more living here than you might think.

Saturday, May 18, 2019

An Undiscovered Gem in Rogers Park, Illinois


Super easy to find -- right off the red line Jarvis stop in Rogers Park, Illinois.  It's Anto Pizza Chicago, a little storefront restaurant with limited seating that offers, among other things, freshly made pasta in a cone cup (yes you read that right) and Roman-style pizza.

Grab your seat at this little gem of a restaurant and enjoy the Italian fare.

Photos courtesy:  @2019 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved.