04 | February | 2009 | Mid-Michigan Dining

Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria – Chicago, IL

4 02 2009

8433 S. Pulaski Road
Chicago, IL 60652
(773) 735-2050
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Vito & Nick's Pizzeria on Chicago's south side.

When we were home for Thanksgiving, one of the places J’s step-dad recommended we eat was Vito & Nick’s on Chicago’s south side. We passed and went for ribs instead. Imagine our surprise when we saw the pizzeria on Diner’s, Drive-In’s, and Dives earlier this month.

After that airing, we decided on our next trip home, we would check the place out. It’s not far from J’s parents, so we hit the place up for lunch on a Wednesday afternoon. J’s mom was off work so she decided to join us. Vito and Nick’s was a place her parents used to take her, but she hasn’t been there in a number of years and wanted to see if it was the place she remembered.

The Original Vito & Nick’s is located on 84th Place and Pulaski. There’s another location in Lemont, but we wanted to go to the one in Chicago. J’s mom said she remembered the place as having a red, white and green awning and that’s what we looked for. By the time she saw it, I had missed the parking lot, so we had to circle around the neighborhood to get back. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hardees – Howe, IN

4 02 2009

7 North – Ernie Pyle Plaza
I-90/I-80 MP 126 Westbound
Howe, IN 46746
(260) 562-9163
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Hardees at an Indiana Toll Road Travel Plaza near Howe, IN

It never fails. If we’re planning on going home for a few days, of course, it is going to snow. Tonight was no different. J and planned weeks ago to take a short vacation and go see our families in Illinois. We thought we’d be out of the worst of winter and things would be ok. Once we started looking at the forecast, we were convinced that someone, somewhere didn’t want us to leave Michigan. The weather looked terrible. Over fifteen inches of snow in a line that was hovering over Southwestern Michigan and Northeast Indiana. We had to go right through it to get home.

I started looking at the map and saw we could go down to the Indiana Toll Road and skip a lot of the stuff in Southwest Michigan. It would add about twenty minutes to our trip, but we could be stuck in traffic for a lot longer than that. This way, we wouldn’t hit the snow until we got about an hour from Chicago. The problem with this route, is we’ve never taken it before and we didn’t know where the rest stops were.

Usually, we hit the Rest Stop east of Kalamazoo which is a little over an hour into our trip. By then, I’ve already drank a Pepsi and J’s had a Rockstar. An hour into our trip this time, all we found was darkness. We were both getting to the point where we had to pee so bad it hurt, but there was nowhere to get off. We hit the Indiana Toll Road and not long after getting on in Angola, I saw a sign for a travel plaza ten miles down the road. Turns out, that was the only place to get off. Read the rest of this entry »