Chicagoings-on, Food: For He Who is the Least Among You

I got three meal invitations for this past weekend that I could not refuse. I don’t mean that in a Godfather way.

Restaurant Week in Chicago was in full effect and I wasn’t intending on joining the Open Table RSVP scuttle, but a girlfriend with whom I hadn’t seen in too long texted, so I accompanied her to Boka. Another girlfriend invited me to be the fourth on a reservation for Girl and the Goat, a place I’d been jonesing to return to enjoy a full meal. And finally, I took up a suggestion for Sunday post-church brunch at a new-to-me Ethiopian place, Ras Dashen. Interestingly, of these three, the humble, least-hyped, least expensive restaurant is the joint whose food most impressed me.  Continue reading “Chicagoings-on, Food: For He Who is the Least Among You”