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I was here for a weekend trip. My boss recommended Vito's pizza, it is well known locally. We were here around 3pm, still a few tables eating. Service was good.
We ordered salad and a medium pizza to share.
Mango Shrimp Salad - 3 pieces seasoned jumbo shrimp, shrimp was flavorful and fresh, loved the tangy fresh mangoes.

Finally back from travelling, we were in Chicago spending the Thanksgiving. Lots to catch up!
First, we tried one of the busiest Sichuan restaurant in Chicago Chinatown, very disappointed. All dishes were missing the essential "Ma - numbing" from Sichuan cuisine. Service was extremely bad, rude manager! While we were waiting, there was the rude manager outside yelling down the street; he was holding a mini flash light point all over the place and to his customers, was it really necessary? Oh we waited 1 hour to be seated.
We got seated upstairs, no services at all, I wasn't expecting much anyway, but this was bad. We wait 20 mins to flag down a waiter to take our order. We ordered 3 dishes, took 30 mins for the first 2 dishes, and another 30 mins for the final dish. We had to flag down another waiter to get rice, oh boy, he just nodded this head and kept walking. What does that mean? Did he heard us or not??

We spent our Labor Day weekend in a nice little town Carmel, CA ... about 1.5 hour drive from Bay Area.  It is such beautiful little town. There are tons of restaurants, shops,  tasting room and amazing beach!
We ate lunch at the amazing Phil's Fish Market & Eatery for their famous Cioppino, will update in a separate post.

A short weekend trip to visit University of Chicago.