The negroni is one of Wil’s and my favorite apéritifs. It’s normally extremely delicious, but we’ve discovered something that makes it even better! Letherbee Autumnal gin! The warm spices in the Letherbee Autumnal balance out the Campari so smoothly, I don’t know that I’ll want to order a negroni any other way in the future. […]
November 2, 2012
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Happy National Champagne Day! (If you’re in Chicago, you might want to check out RM Champagne Salon tonight, it sounds like a blast!) In honor of this very important holiday, I’m cheersing with the traditional champagne cocktail! Here’s what you’ll need to celebrate too ;-) Angostura bitters, a white sugar cube, and champagne. Place the […]
October 26, 2012
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Happy Monday! I can’t thank everyone enough for such a wonderful birthday on Saturday. It was a gorgeous day and I felt really blessed. All pictures are from instagram because I took the whole weekend off from my real camera :-) I did very little work, spent a lot of really nice time relaxing with […]
October 22, 2012
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When Brooke and I first spoke about her and Brian’s engagement photos she said they wanted to be sure to capture their love of fine food and drink. I couldn’t think of a better spot in Lincoln Park than Perennial Virant! I just had to post these separately from yesterday’s fun fall engagement photos because […]
October 18, 2012
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I know you’re thinking, Emilia you JUST talked about a pumpkin donut. I swear this is different though…because that one was homemade, healthy (yes I’m loosely defining healthy as non-fried now), and with cinnamon. This though. This is the best of the Glazed & Infused fall donuts. Their menu changed a couple weeks ago to […]
October 12, 2012
