#ing_restaurant

So it was restaurant week and my restaurant buddy C and I were in the mood for trying something new. I was in a celebratory mood so we figured, why not try ING, $44 is a good price to try it. The yelp reviews on the restaurant week were pretty good too. 

ING is the sister restaurant of Moto, and they are famous for giving the miracle berry. More on that. 

The first course was a beet salad. Well I hate beets. I really do and they are everywhere in winter in Chicago, which is a real bummer for me. Anyways as you can see on the picture there is a little pink pill by the lemon. That's the miracle berry pill. We were instructed to try the beet (which I did, meh) and then have the pill dissolve on our tongue and then bite on the lemon. The lemon was so sweet! It was pretty awesome and surprising. The beet salad was rather uninteresting though, even though the beet tasted better post-pill for me. 2 jujus for the salad, 4 jujus for the miracle berry.

So the menu was called Dali. I guess the clocks give a hint there. While I think the idea is kinda cool, in theory, I wasn't very impressed by the result. So we had a potato, some Spanish omelette, butternut squash (?) and mushroom. The flavors were good but it wasn't exceptional either. 3.5 jujus

The main was a garbanzo stew. Well cooked, good flavors, very earthy, but seriously, a main of garbanzo beans? Not my idea of fine dining. 5 jujus for the taste, but 2.5 jujus for the dish in the context of find dining.

The dessert was this weird, gimmicky thing that didn't taste very good. There was some turon, pistachio and some blurbs of other things. It really didn't taste good at all and the flavors were not coming together. 1 juju

So that was supposed to be the end of the mean. And frankly, we were still hungry. I do not need to eat much to feel content (as long as it is good hehe), my friends M&S (or S&M, not sure which one is worse!) always complain that we don't order enough food for them to eat).

Because we looked disappointed (we might have said something too!), the waitress brought us another dessert, which actually was much better than the first one. Very good! 4 jujus

Despite the extra dessert, the experience was rather disappointing in the end and did not made us feel like coming back again. Oh and also, they decided to store our coats outside, while it was -10 C outside... We had to wait 10 minutes for them, and then were frozen to death because they were cold as ice. Seriously, why?