bryan

Real Name:

Barbara

Location:

Chicago

Best meal I ever ate:

Years ago at the Pump Room. Started with beluga caviar and iced vodka. There was excellent champange with oysters and the rest is a blur. Oh, but baked alaska for desert.

My current drink of choice:

Saturdays and Sundays, brunch, it's bloody mary time. But white russians most of the other times. A nice cold Piesporter w/ fish. A good heady red w/ pasta.

I really wish I could:

fly, have dinner with my dad one more time.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

My homemade pasta and sauce.

My favorite comfort food:

Does chocolate count? Homemade macaroni and cheese. Bagels w/ chive cream cheese and lox. Lasange.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Spoon Thai and Kamahaci here in Chicago. Arnauds and Fiorellos in New Orleans.Carnegie Deli in New York. Room service pretty much anywhere.

My most tattered cookbooks:

Mastering the art of French Cooking.