Ann Sather Restaurant on West Belmont in Chicago.
Every wedding has to have a good story. When I was the best man in brother’s wedding, we went golfing at 6 AM before the ceremony. He damn near flipped a golf cart. The grass was still wet from the morning dew and he was going a little too fast looking for his bar. He slammed on the breaks and turned the wheel. He did a pretty good donut and got a couple wheels off the ground, but it stayed upright.
For my wedding, my brother and I got the bright idea to run to Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood to get cinnamon rolls for the morning. Not a bad idea…except rush hour had just begun.
My mom called to see if they had any rolls left. The lady who answered the phone said they had three dozen left, but they were closing in 50 minutes so we had to get there before then. Sounded like a challenge that we were about to take.
Ann Sather’s has four locations in Chicago. They’re a “Swedish” breakfast place. They also have pretty good cinnamon rolls. I don’t remember which show it was, but I saw it on the Food Network. The rolls looked good on TV, so I had no reason to assume they weren’t going to be good in person.
The restaurant we chose was the location on West Belmont just east of North Clark Street. Our hotel was on the extreme south side of Chicago near Midway Airport. For those of you not familiar with the city, Belmont and Clark is on the far north side. It was only 14 miles, but even on a good day, that’s a half hour drive….and it wasn’t a good day. Read the rest of this entry »
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