Two Quick Foodie Items

While in Chicago, I had my usual set of good eating experiences. Here are a couple of highlights.
Lakeview and I went to Scylla again. It was a Thursday night and was definitely busier which is good because we'd like to see this place succeed. I had a dish that was really unusual and good; a calamari stuffed with sausage. It was two calamari tubes stuffed with a wild boar sausage meat that was very strongly flavored but not greasy. The tubes were grilled and put over white polenta. There was a dab of some vinaigrette on the side and on each corner of the plate was a tiny baby octopus grilled. I think a lot would have found the calamari too tough but I liked the chewy texture interplayed against the savory sausage and the soft mild polenta. This chef has a way with cephlopods.
For breakfast on Saturday, Motherrocker took me to a Swedish place called Tre Kronor where I had corned beef hash and eggs. Normally corned beef hash is a very insipid dish with the beef being ground into a mash. In this case the meat had been cut into a very fine dice and was quite recognizably meat. The potatoes in the hash were very good too.