Every year I like to celebrate my birthday in my home town of Chicago where I can eat my favorite comfort food: Teibels Family Restaurant for lake perch (boned and buttered), Carson’s, The Place for Ribs for baby back ribs, and Walker Brothers, The Original Pancake House for apple pancakes. This year, I am also speaking on “Was Lochner Right? Natural Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment” at four Federalist Society law student chapter sponsored events. Here is the info:
Wednesday, February 4:
11:50am – DePaul – with comment by Prof. David Franklin
25 E. Jackson
Room 904
4:00pm Chicago-Kent
565 West Adams Street
Room C40
Thursday, February 5:
12:15pm – University of Chicago
1111 E. 60th St
Room III
4:00pm Loyola
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1104
Update:A reader emails that there are Original Pancake House restaurants in VA and MD, which is true and they are good. But Walker Bros. changed their recipe for apple pancakes, which now bear no relationship to the dish that is served at other Original Pancake House restaurants–or anywhere else I have tried them.
Also, Teibel’s is one of the only places in the country that serves lake perch, which used to be caught in Lake Michigan, but which now comes from Canada. Phil Smidt’s was another Chicago institution that specialized in lake perch but it is no more. They prepared their perch somewhat differently, and both styles were delicious, but I always found the “sides” at Teibel’s to be much better than what accompanied the perch at Phil Smidt’s. Friday nights are still all-you-can-eat. Teibel’s gets the highest rating from Roadfood.com, which says, “Overall: Worth driving from anyplace.”
Or flying from DC.
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