For the month of August, we checked out the excellent Girl and the Goat, the new West Loop restaurant by Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard with our good friend Lolita, hung out with old and new friends at the always superb Bristol Lounge in Wicker Park, found a secret, shady, elevated, well-ventilated spot in Lincoln Park to watch the Blue Angels scream past at the annual Air and Water Show, trekked to a hippie farm in the middle of corn field Illinois to eat a delicious 5-course Berkshire pork dinner underneath the stars accompanied by a half-dozen local micro-brews, got rained on during the outdoor performance of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road ensemble at Ravinia, and flew to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a relaxing weekend trip.
In addition, we biked to Lollapalooza to hear Lady Gaga and MGMT play, twice ooh-ed and aah-ed at the Saturday Navy Pier fireworks where we could smell the acrid odor of firepowder we were so close, ate fresh Caprese salad with truffle oil about a thousand times, successfully created tonkatsu pork dishes with the bajillion lbs of pork product we purchased from Peoria Meat in Fulton Market, got a haircut, took full advantage of the bountiful farmers markets, hugged each other a bunch, and generally thought we were the luckiest people on the planet.
