I wanted to go to Brobagel, on North Ave., because it’s one of the Jacobs Bros. Bagels brothers and they were my favorite Chicago bagel when I lived here 20 years ago.
We rode up there on the red & blue lines, a surprisingly easy trip, even with Shamrock Shufflers going home from the race. When we got there, though, turned out that Brobagel has no seating. Yelp didn’t explicitly tell me that, and I just assumed from people’s reviews of all the bagel sandwiches, that there was some place to sit and eat them. We just decided to get our bagels to go, and go back home to eat. I got the commuter special – any kind of bagel with cream cheese, and a 16 oz. coffee – I had walnut raison. Mark got the Brobagel Club. After ordering, so too late (and not really what I wanted at the moment) I saw a poster promoting their Siracha cream cheese on garlic bagels. Something to try next time.
We also allowed ourselves to succumb to the Stan’s Donuts, also right under the L – you could smell it as soon as you stepped off the train onto the platform. I got a pistachio-lemon cake donut, which was really sweet and dense, and Mark got a regular raised glazed, which was less of both.
Once we’d made our carryout decision, as we were going into the L stop, I saw a bunch of people carrying into the coffee place, La Colombe. So also too late.
I forgot to take pictures until we were down to leftovers. We’re going to see the new Cinderella (real people movie, like we said when my kids were little, as opposed to animated) up on Michigan Ave. – maybe we’ll have to stop afterward and get carryout for dinner, too.
Museum campus sign – even though it says Green, we were waiting for the Red – it’s Green thataway
Brobagel poster for Siracha cream cheese & garlic bagels
Half Stan’s donut & Bro bagel leftovers
