Albany Park 2. Tre Kronor

Hola a todos! Hoy os voy a contar lo que hicimos el domingo pasado. Como os dije anteriormente, el barrio de "Albany Park" me gusto mucho, pero nos quedaron algunas zonas por visitar. En particular, me quede con ganas de ver la parte sueca. Hay una pequeña parte del barrio que es totalmente escandinava, con tiendas, parques y lo mejor, un restaurante de comida sueca, noruega y danesa :)
Hi everyone! Today I'll tell you what we did last Sunday. As I told you before I really liked Albany Park, but there were still some parts that we still had to visit. There is a Swedish part of the neighborhood that we wanted to visit. There are shops, parks and the best part, a Scandinavian food restaurant :)
El domingo pasado, entre otras cosas, fuimos a "Tre Kronor", que significa "la tumba" y no es algo tan raro, jeje! Se llama asi porque antiguamente en Suecia, la comida se solia guardar bajo la tierra para poder conservarla, no tiene nada que ver con los muertos :). El sitio es muy acogedor y en la carta se puede encontrar toda clase de platos tipicos escandinavos: arenques, ensalada de patata, albondigas suecas, etc. Esto ultimo es lo que se pidio Thomas y yo, una variedad de huevos llamados "huevos florentina", parecido a los huevos benedicto. Aqui os dejo algunas fotos :) la mia es horrible, es que Thomas no miro muy bien si la foto estaba en condiciones o no, jeje!
Last week we went to "Tre Kronor" which means "The grave". It has a reasonable explanation. Apparently in the past in the Scandinavian countries, it was common to keep the food under the ground in order to preserve it during long periods of time. The name doesn't have anything to do with dead bodies or the cemetery :)
The place is super cozy and all kind of Scandinavian dishes can be found on its menu cart: herring, potato salad, Swedish meatballs, etc. Thomas order the meatballs and I ordered "eggs florentine" kind of eggs benedict. Here you can see some pics. I look horrible, but I leave it for you to see the food.


Albany Park me encanta y poco a poco iremos visitando todos los sitios que nos quedan. La proxima vez, intentaremos visitar la parte camboyana. De momento, os recomiendo ir a "Tre Kronor". La comida esta buenisima y la gente es encantadora ;)
I really like Albany park and I hope we can visit the other parts of the neighborhood. Next time I'd like to visit the Cambodian memorial museum. If you are around the Chicago area, don't forget to visit "Tre Kronor", the food was great and the service was charming ;)

Albany Park

Hola amigos!! Se que hace mucho que no escribo, pero creo que no he hecho nada en este tiempo que sea digno de escribir en el blog :), aunque la vida de una quimica da mucho de si, pero el texto resultaria demasiado friky, jeje!!
El tiempo parece que esta mejorando un poco y ayer fue un dia excepcional, hizo calor, unos 28 grados y mucho sol. La pena es que solo fue ayer, pero al menos lo aprovechamos.
Hacia tiempo que no saliamos y este fin de semana lo hemos pasado muy bien. El sabado cenamos en "The cellar", mi sitio favorito de Evanston y ayer salimos a hacer una visita a uno de los barrios de Chicago que queria visitar, Albany Park.
Hi all!! It's been very long since I don't write, but nothing really blog worthy happened lately, even though the life of a chemist can be very intense :). However, I don't want the post to be too freaky, heeh!
The weather seems to be getting better and yesterday it was a super warm day. It was around 28 C and very sunny. Unfortunately, that was only yesterday :) but at least, we did a lot of thigs.
It was long since we didn't go out, so we went to "The Cellar" for dinner on Saturday. It is my favorite place in Evanston and yesterday, we visited one of Chicago's neighborhoods, Albany Park.
Albany Park es un barrio de inmigrantes, donde por un momento parece que estes en otro pais. En realidad, parece que te desplazas a mas de 10 paises :) ya que hay tiendas, restaurantes y gentes de todas las partes del mundo.
Una gran parte de la poblacion, junto con las tiendas y restaurantes, es latina, mejicana en especial, pero tambien de otros paises como Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, etc. La cantidad de restaurantes mejicanos es alucinante, demasiado donde elegir y los supermercados con los productos tipicos mejicanos estan por todas partes.
Albany Park is an immigrant neighborhood and for a moment you think you are living in a different country, well in many other different countries :) since there are shops, restaurants and people from all over the world.
A big part of the shops and restaurants are Latin, especially Mexican, but other countries can be found, like Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, etc. The amount of Mexican restaurants is amazing, too many choices :) and you can also find stores with typical Mexican products.
Otra de las zonas de este barrio es de Oriente Medio y hay varios restaurantes libaneses, panaderias, restaurantes iraquies, etc. Hay un monton de productos tipicos que eran desconocidos para mi, me encanto.
Aqui podeis ver algunas fotos del barrio. Esteticamente no es lo mejor de Chicago, pero el ambiente es buenisimo, hay mucha gente por todas partes, es seguro y se puede ver todo el rato a gente que viene del centro de Chicago en busca de comida o tiendas exoticas.
There is also a zone dedicated to Middle Eastern countries where Lebanese restaurants and bakeries can be found, as well as Iraqi kebabs. There are tones of products which were unknown for me, I loved it!
Here you can see some pictures of the neighborhood. It is not the most beautiful part of Chicago, but the ambient is super cool, there are a lot of people, it is safe and a lot of people are coming from downtown to spend the day looking for exotic food.

Panaderia libanesa donde compramos baklawa. Lebanese bakery where we bought baklawa.

Restaurante iraqui. Iraqui restaurant

Otra parte de este barrio es mayoritariamente coreano. Hay muchos centros de salud orientales, dentistas, oftalmologos, etc, pero todo oriental.
Cerca de aqui hay tambien una comunidad sueca, si! sueca :) con un restaurante sueco, un parque sueco e incluso un museo. La pena es que no nos dio tiempo a visitarlo todo, asi que esto queda pendiente para el proximo dia :). Ademas, hay un museo camboyano, en memoria de las victimas que murieron durante la guerra y otras partes del parque que nos quedaron por visitar.
Another part of the neighborhood is mostly Korean. There are a lot of health centers, eyes centers, farmacies and other Oriental clinics.
Close to the neighborhood there is a Swedish community, yeah, Swedish!! :) there is a Swedish restaurant, a Swedish shop, a Swedish park, etc. We didn't have time visit everything so we'll go back there next time :). There is also a Cambodian museum dedicated to the victims of the war. We'll go back there to visit the Cambodian memorial and other parts of the park.
Para comer elegimos un restaurante estilo persa ;), muy barato, muy bonito y muy rico. Aqui veis las fotos del restaurante y de lo que pedimos: hummus, dolmeh y kebab :). Despues compramos baklawa en la panaderia libanesa, que rico!! Para terminar paseamos por Lake Shore Park antes de volver a casa. Un dia perfecto!!
We chose a Persian restaurant for luch :) cheap, nice and delicious. Here you see the pictures of the restaurant and the food we orderd: hummus, dolmeh and kebab :)
After lunch we bought baklawa in the Lebanese restaurant, delicious!! To finish the day we went for a walk in Lake Shore Park. It was a perfect day!!