Chicago: Bob Chinn's Crabhouse - August 12
I'm in Chicago - ok, well Lincolnshire for 2 days for busines, which is 30 miles outside Chicago. Paul and Jeff (Vocent colleagues) are here too and we go for dinner on Thursday night after a full day of meetings.
Bob Chinn's is a well known 650 seat crab house restaurant that herds people in and out. They get their crab flown in daily with dailly receipts of shipments on the wall. There was a line when we go there but found out they served their full menu at the bar so we grabbed a table there. I ordered a Belgian White Beer (can't remember the name) which was really tasty. Since crab is their specialty - crab is what we got, all different kinds. The menu though was incredibly extensive, from fish done seven ways (grouper was fish of the day) to lobster, steak, salmon, surf'n turf and SO much more.
Oh, I forgot to mention that we warned we would smell like garlic for days after eating there. Sure enough, these hot rolls slathered with garlic and butter showed up at our table and were quickly devoured. We orded tiny blue crab claws as a started, served cold with dipping sauce and quite tasty. I order the stone crab claws, Paul allowed the Alaskan King Crab claws and Jeff orded the Kona Crab with shrimp. We did a bit of a taste test, having never had the opportunity to taste so many different types of crab in one sitting. They were all good, though I think Paul's were the sweetest, mine were the crabbiest (kind stringy) and Jeff's were sweet with a really different texture. I had never heard of Kona Crab before (need to check this out next time in Kona!) Everything was delicious - I ordered potatoes (with tons of garlic) and we ordered steamed asparagus for the table.
We were stuffed after the crab fest which was unfortunate because the dessert menu was extensive and only then did the waitress tell us they bake everything on site daily in their bakehouse. All the more reason to ask for the dessert menu before ordering a main! All in all, a fun delicious place for dinner!
Bob Chinn's is a well known 650 seat crab house restaurant that herds people in and out. They get their crab flown in daily with dailly receipts of shipments on the wall. There was a line when we go there but found out they served their full menu at the bar so we grabbed a table there. I ordered a Belgian White Beer (can't remember the name) which was really tasty. Since crab is their specialty - crab is what we got, all different kinds. The menu though was incredibly extensive, from fish done seven ways (grouper was fish of the day) to lobster, steak, salmon, surf'n turf and SO much more.
Oh, I forgot to mention that we warned we would smell like garlic for days after eating there. Sure enough, these hot rolls slathered with garlic and butter showed up at our table and were quickly devoured. We orded tiny blue crab claws as a started, served cold with dipping sauce and quite tasty. I order the stone crab claws, Paul allowed the Alaskan King Crab claws and Jeff orded the Kona Crab with shrimp. We did a bit of a taste test, having never had the opportunity to taste so many different types of crab in one sitting. They were all good, though I think Paul's were the sweetest, mine were the crabbiest (kind stringy) and Jeff's were sweet with a really different texture. I had never heard of Kona Crab before (need to check this out next time in Kona!) Everything was delicious - I ordered potatoes (with tons of garlic) and we ordered steamed asparagus for the table.
We were stuffed after the crab fest which was unfortunate because the dessert menu was extensive and only then did the waitress tell us they bake everything on site daily in their bakehouse. All the more reason to ask for the dessert menu before ordering a main! All in all, a fun delicious place for dinner!
posted by Karen at 12:45 PM
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