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The Evanston lunch group will be meeting on September 20 at 12:30 at Wazobia Restaurant. Wazobia has taken over the space of Banadir, A Somali restaurant on Clark and Thome, between Devon and Granville on the east side of the street. Wazobia serves food from another part of Africa, southeast Nigeria -- lots of stews with starches like foofoo (pounded yams).
Wazobia
6221 N. Clark
Chicago 60660

I will be there.

I'll be there, too.

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The list of new area breweries keeps growing!

Having dined at Grace recently, I'm very interested and am 75% sure I can be there.

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I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.

I plan to be there. Thanks, Robert!

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"Life is a combination of magic and pasta." -- Federico Fellini

I'll be there.

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Toast, as every breakfaster knows, isn't really about the quality of the bread or how it's sliced or even the toaster. For man cannot live by toast alone. It's all about the butter. -- Adam Gopnik

I will join you.

the 25% has won this time, bummed I won't be able to make it.

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I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.

Sorry you won't be able to make it, Sweet Willy! I have a meeting from 9-12 (in principle!) interviewing candidates for Fulbright awards abroad. While this is scheduled to finish at noon, meetings do have an uncanny way of extending themselves, and this is unfortunately an important one which I can't cut short. I have to pick up Catherine along the way, so that I may be a bit late coming to Wazobia. If everyone is ok with 12:45, this will be easier for me.
Robert

I won't be able to make it- but I'm wondering if somebody can find out for me if they cook with Red Palm Oil at Wazobia? I would really appreciate it!!

They do cook some dishes with "red oil", which is almost certainly palm oil. We had the vegetable soup -- mostly spinach -- with oxtail, served with foofoo (pounded yam); egwusi (melon seed) soup with goat, also with foofoo, jollof rice with fried tilapia; mashed beans and plantains; and akkara, fried bean fritters. The egwusi soup was particularly good, but everything was nice, with the possible exception of the mashed beans and plantain, which was rather pedestrian and served with frozen peas and carrots on the side. But I would definitely recommend the restaurant. For a reasonably copious meal, we paid $12 a person, but only because we left a very generous tip.