American

Automat calls itself an "American Brassiere" and it is located in Mayfair. It is a very posh brassiere where the Mayfair's working crowd like to go for breakfast (my bfriend has very unhealthy waffles there quite frequently for breakfast), lunch, dinner before clubbing and also brunch on weekends. You can go to Automat for many occasions and various meals during the day, which is actually quite interesting as not many restaurants can be so versatile. The menu is very varied and different for lunch, breakfast, dinner and brunch (I guess the reason why people love it for so many different occasions) and for breakfast you can get the standard eggs benedict, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, omelettes and bagels as well as pancakes, waffles and muffins (so very American), for lunch and dinner soups, salads, steaks and just food with an American twist.

Rosebud steakhouse is a great, typical American steakhouse in Chicago. Everything is massive and delicious and cheese is added to any dish that they can think of. They say they are “a rare steakhouse, well done”, which I think is a great play on words.

I went to Rosebud Steakhouse, located just off the expensive Michigan Avenue which is the Chicago version of New York’s 5th avenue, on a Friday evening and it was buzzing and vibrant, with no free tables. Another funny thing about Rosebud Steakhouse is that they emphasize on their website their place is the perfect place for celebrities and VIPs, which probably is great PR, as many people want to go there just to see celebrities, which I doubt happen to be there too often.

My boyfriend and I have started a new thing, where every weak we go through the alphabet and chose a cuisine based on the corresponding letter. I was the one that kicked this off, with A, first letter of the alphabet and so last week I had to choose a cuisine that starts with A (could have been Algerian, Afghanistan, Argentinean etc...) and based on that a restaurant. My boyfriend thought I would be nice and sophisticated and chose something like Argentinean but I decided to go for - American!! I chose a Southern American restaurant called Lowcountry that had just opened up in Fulham and served "shrimps and grits" type of Southern Creole food. After having spent 40 minutes getting there, my expectations were running high, but when I got there the place looked like a made up pub (1/2 of the place is a pub and then they also have a dining room where you can watch the chefs cook food in the middle of the room and can even sit next to where they are cooking).