Reading journal #1

* Page Number: 35
* Date published: January 21

* Author's name: Erin Drain

* Title of the article: Soup of the day

* A summary of the article:
Monday 17thc was "blue monday", the supposed saddest day of the year with the holidays past. Luckily, January is also National Soup Month, so no better way to cheer up than with a hearty soup - with booze on the side, of course. Soup is hard BYOB pairing to tangle with. Ukrainian Village has no shortage of BYO reastauants, but few pay tribute to the neighbourhood's heritage such as Shokolad - primary a cafe and pastry place. Shokolad's small order of boshcht ($ 3) is full of beets and garlic with a beefy broth base. Consider this guideline: If the soups are beefy, the beer should be, too.

Soups with an aromatic broth base such as standart pho tai ($6.5), the beef-and-noodle dish emblematic of Vietnamese cuisine served at Uptown's Pro 888 are another story. Pho features both are full of almost dastracting aromatics: clove, allspice, garlic and fish sauce.

You can find those places:

Shokolad: 2524 W Chicago Ave

Pho 888: 1137 W Argyle St

* My opinion:

I picked this article because I'm working at one of those places and I know what does it mean when customers want to have nice lunch or dinner with some good wine from their own bar or from the store. They don't have to worry about spending a lot of money for some good drink with the restaurant's prices.