Traveling can be a disorienting experience. After many hours in transit, you find yourself in a strange city with a landscape and street names you don’t recognize and no friends except the ones you brought with you. But if you’re lucky, your hotel will be full of people to comfort and pamper you and see to your happiness. Among those agents of comfort is the lobby restaurant.
We decided to order the most stereotypically midwestern food on the menu. Or, rather, we tried to pretend we were people from the east coast who were pretending they were eating in a diner in Iowa City or Springfield, Illinois, although they had never been to either place. (If they had, they would order a loose-meat sandwich or a horseshoe in order to demonstrate their knowledge of local customs.)
The brunch menu is also light on the midwestern theme. Bacon and eggs are universal in hotels across this great nation. The coffee is Big Shoulders and the pastrami in the beef hash comes from the Butcher & Larder. There are also Do-Rite Donuts, but those, the server reported, go quickly.
81 E. Upper Wacker 312-253-2337landlkitchen.com
