• Kuma’s Corner: Pretzel buns are a brilliant idea, obscure Colorado microbrews add cachet. How to beat the insane wait for a table? Show up on a Tuesday night. Don’t get scared off by the naked ladies on the walls of the bathroom. (As if!) [Gastronomic Bypass]
• Blue Sky Bakery does a lot of things: they employ and provide job training to disadvantaged kids, who come away with work experience and references, and they make a killer breakfast or lunch. They don’t usually do dinner, but Chicago Bites had the hookup. [Chicago Bites]
• Where oh where can you get Duck Nachos? Dorado, that’s where! French-Mexican is brilliant, we must say. [Tasty Beat]
• Some excellent image manipulation (check out the biblical revisionism) and a truly spectacular post title in this rave of Mixteco Grill. [Chicago Gluttons]
• Fresh-baked bread, nostalgia-heavy atmosphere (baskets full of chips!), and inspired sandwich combinations: these are the things that make Panes (subtitle: Bread Cafe) absolutely worth the wait. [Hungry Mag]
• Average pastas, cold gnocchi a “spastic” server who admits to knowing nothing about the wine list, and prices that outpace the quality all conspire against the much-hyped Piccolo Sogno. Arugula pizza’s not awful to share, though. [Gastronomic Bypass]
[Photo: The Yob Burger at Kuma’s Corner, via rachelleb’s Flickr]
