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Speaker 1 00:00:07 Chicago restaurant week Chicago
Speaker 2 00:00:09 Restaurant week Chicago restaurant week is finally here
Speaker 3 00:00:12 Starting from Friday, March 25th. Up to last Sunday, April 10th, Chicago had a very special annual events called the Chicago restaurant week. As many of you may already be familiar with during this period visualing star restaurants offer their food at a lower price, allowing more people to afford it. TJ Kim, a sophomore at Northwestern university made a visit to one of the restaurants on April 1st.
Speaker 4 00:00:38 I mean like initially I wanted to, you know, participate in the Chicago restaurant week, mainly because I thought I would try out different restaurants in, in like a couple of days. But then I decided, or I ended up going to just one, which is funny
Speaker 3 00:00:54 While he was unable to follow his initial plan of trying multiple restaurants. TJ says he did enjoy his experience at the one restaurant he was able to visit.
Speaker 4 00:01:04 I visited, um, Boulevard, Chicago steakhouse
Speaker 3 00:01:08 As a big fan of steak. TJ had always hoped to check out many of these steakhouse and Chicago restaurant week appeared to be one of the best opportunities to do so
Speaker 4 00:01:18 Mainly cuz like I always wanted to go there cause I, I, I love going to different steakhouse if you, if you call it steakhouse hopping. Sure. But Chicago being one of the most prominent, um, steak houses, I wanted to try, um, different steakhouse.
Speaker 3 00:01:33 According to TJ, the meal is usually 30 to $50 per person. Let me do the math for you real quick. If you multiply 30 by two that's 60, if you multiply 50 by two, that's a hundred, which means on an average day, a two person meal would cost 60 minimum and a hundred maximum.
Speaker 4 00:01:52 But then, um, me being a student under a budget constraint, I was not able to do so. So I thought Chicago restaurant week was such a good opportunity for me to, um, the steakhouse that I wanted to go at a, a fairly cheap price. The price was very fair. I, I think I paid 55, including, um, if you include tip like 70
Speaker 3 00:02:16 Quite surprising, huh? $55 is less than the minimum price that people would have to pay regularly. He further adds that the food quality was chef's kiss
Speaker 4 00:02:26 Price was very fair. I, I think I paid 55. If you include tip like 70, which for a, for a course, a dinner course meal, I was served in the appetizer of Caleb Brussels sprout salad and for my entree short rib barbacoa and for the dessert to finish off, I ate sweet potato cake, which was kind of a nourishing experience to have a sweet potato cake in the steakhouse was a surreal experience, a guest.
Speaker 3 00:02:56 But if TJ had to point out a flaw, he says there was a slight disappointment in the choice of the menu.
Speaker 4 00:03:03 But the fact that I wasn't able to eat like a normal steak per se, the price could have been better. I guess
Speaker 3 00:03:13 He went for the steak, but didn't get that steak in general. The food was nice, but the mood was a plus as always good mood comes with good food.
Speaker 4 00:03:22 The atmosphere itself wasn't that crowded nor was it too noisy as I expected, considering it being a Chicago restaurant week, I can't say quiet the normal after all,
Speaker 3 00:03:35 When asked whether he would recommend this annual event to other students to EJ gave an unsure response,
Speaker 4 00:03:41 I can firmly say yes or no, because I only went to just one restaurant instead of many, which I had the opportunity to. So I guess 50 50, for sure
Speaker 3 00:03:53 For all the freshmen Chicago restaurant week could be potentially another bullet point to your bucket list. Talk to other people who've been to the event. Perhaps they have a better or maybe even worse experience, but I'd say giving it a try won't hurt, especially with the low prices. This is John and Jennifer Kim signing off from w N U R news.
