WhyBeeSea wrote:This is awesome! I'll never complain about free caterered lunches at work. Hopefully your coworkers appreciated that there was thought put into the quality of meals.
I think they did. It was interesting to (over)hear the differing opinions about the places. A couple that were my least favorite received a lot of positive feedback. That made me especially happy about the choices I made and the way we ordered.
lodasi wrote:You would think pizza works well, but Piece Pizza does not travel without turning chewier than a well done steak.
That's a solid list of restaurants, your colleagues are lucky to have you =R=.
The one time I ordered Piece delivered, it came via third a party and the delivery person decided to carry the box briefcase style, so you can imagine how that ended up. In any case, Piece to Niles would be a bad combination even if it traveled very well.
We as a group like the deep dish at Pequod's in Morton Grove, too but their track record on making timely deliveries took them out of the running on this series.
Lou's (Lincolnwood), we get with some regularity and these pies were as good as any I'd had from over there in a long time. On the plus side, accommodating the vegetarians is really easy with pizza. On the minus side, there's not a lot of variety once you get past the pizzas. We did have two large salads but I like to do more for the light eaters than just throw salads at them. I guess that's what thin-crust is for!
There was so much good food but a couple things that really astounded me were the egg rolls from China Chef which, miraculously, were still crispy an hour after they'd been delivered and a big tray of skirt steaks from Prairie Grass. Each one of them was indescribably tender, beautifully crusted and perfectly medium rare. It was a thing of beauty.
Personally, I also loved throwing a big pan of skordalia out there smack dab in the middle of the work day. It was kind of my Ashton Kutcher moment.
lougord99 wrote:I didn't know that Prairie Grass was willing to deliver.
Is that because of your relationship with the owners ?
I am friends with them so maybe. I asked and they said yes. I never asked them why. That said, the order was a huge catered lunch for 50 people, so I'm guessing it was worth it for them; a mutually beneficial situation. From what I know, Psistaria, Pita Inn and Smoque don't "deliver," either but I think catering is another matter. And as you can probably guess, PGC was the most expensive of the ten lunches . . . but worth every penny. I love it when you
really get what you pay for.
=R=
Same planet, different world