LTH North Dinner Group - Colony House - 12/15 - 5pm

The minions and I have been talking about Colony House over the past couple of months. We agreed that it would be a great spot to check out over the cooler months. Let's do it. As always, bring a friend.

Colony House Restaurant
25811 119th St.
Trevor, WI 53179
(262) 862-2076
http://w.singlepage.com/colony-house-restaurant-3/menu

Dave148 - Esteemed Coordinator - LTHNL/D Group
Merle
Cathy2 - freaking fast RSVP
jnm123 + 1
EddieK
Giovanna
budrichard
Maureen

Hi,

This is a delightful place, glad to go back again.

Regards,
Cathy2

Count me in.

Count me in too. Looking forward to it!

Count me in too. Looking forward to it!

Dave, please count a +1 for me. Thanks.

I'm a +maybe, depending on weather, health, phase of the moon.

Hoping everything will align for me to be there.

Giovanna

Giovanna wrote:I'm a +maybe, depending on weather, health, phase of the moon.

Hoping everything will align for me to be there.

Giovanna

If you are feeling so-so, you can meet me in Highland Park. I will drive up the rest of the way.

Regards,
Cathy2

Please include Maureen and myself, thank you.

There's a reservation under Rothschild. See y'all Sunday!

My +1 is doubtful, but I'm still in; I'll update on Friday or Saturday, Dave.

Arrrghh, I have to join my +1, so you'll have to count me out for tomorrow. Sorry, group; I was looking forward to seeing you and visiting Colony House. I have a craving for prime rib right now that feels like some kind of vitamin deficiency. Guess I'll have to wait for another opportunity.

I will eat Prime Rib for you.
Last time at the Colony House, I ordered the largest cut.
Enough to feed four people.
Biggest cut of Prime Rib I have ever seen.
Maybe Joey Chestnut could eat it?
It’s about 3” thick!
Needless to say, it went home with me.
I will order a smaller cut tonight.
-Richard

As I peruse the menu, I noticed the 20 oz. Prime rib is only $6 more than the 10 oz.

I believe prime rib sandwiches are in my future.

Giovanna

Giovanna wrote:As I peruse the menu, I noticed the 20 oz. Prime rib is only $6 more than the 10 oz.

I believe prime rib sandwiches are in my future.

Giovanna

I like the way you think!

LTH gas report:

Costco - Mettawa: $2.35
Costco - Pleasant Prairie: $2.25 (unfortunately out of the way for this evening)

Gas around Trevor, WI: $2.34-$2.35
Just south of the border: $2.67

Regards,
Cathy2

I did some googling on restaurant prime rib prices once and concluded that a price differential like that would be a great deal for boneless ribeye but is less so for bone-in ribeye, because of the larger bone in the larger cut. Not that it still isn't a good deal (and I'd order the larger one too!); just bear in mind you're paying for both more meat and more bone.

Cathy2 wrote:LTH gas report:

Costco - Mettawa: $2.35
Costco - Pleasant Prairie: $2.25 (unfortunately out of the way for this evening)

Gas around Trevor, WI: $2.34-$2.35
Just south of the border: $2.67

Regards,
Cathy2

$2.34 = Sam’s Club VH. Hah!

budrichard wrote:I will eat Prime Rib for you.
Last time at the Colony House, I ordered the largest cut.
Enough to feed four people.
Biggest cut of Prime Rib I have ever seen.
Maybe Joey Chestnut could eat it?
It’s about 3” thick!
Needless to say, it went home with me.
I will order a smaller cut tonight.
-Richard

Your picture pretty sold a number of us on buying the big ol'hunk of beef. My piece was a little slimmer, but they compensated with a hunk to take home.

My family is enjoying a late dinner from my take-home food as I write.

A quick review of when people graduated high school: 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 79 were present.

Fun, food, conversation and a bit of Skokie nostalgia mixed in.

Regards,
Cathy2

All but two the group.

I always think of this group's meandering discussion topics as reminiscent of the old Kup's Show or Cromie Circle--the 'art' of conversation.

And sitting in the middle of the rectangular 9-top my brainpower was tested whilst half-way listening to Cathy telling my wife how she was going to 'diplomatically' inform the waitress that she got size-shorted on the hoof of beef she received in comparison to Nancy & EddieK (how in Hades was she going to be able to do THAT?--She did, and to my amazement it worked!).

In the other ear, my new friend budrichard was explaining why Colony House prime rib slabs are cut fresh and the real deal, unlike many buffets that serve previously cryovac'd metered-out portions. I looked down at my decent-but-not-great veal piccata and wished I had ordered a Flintstones-sized bone-in like 7 of the others. (Edit: I just finished the veal piccata leftovers--they were real tasty--I think I had hunk o'beef envy last night!)

Colony House--at least upstairs on the main floor in the coziest of dining rooms--lent to discussion of this sort. No holds barred, barely civil, on the edge of animated. Of course, I went to the well once too often while describing Eddie's supercollider-like driving habits, picking out different internal organs that routinely shift if in the passenger seat of his rocket-ship Mercedes--this time it was my spleen...

Great evening, a welcome break from the pedantic Holiday party pablum I've been subject to lately. Happy holidays, all.

What helped with my discussion the waitress, she thought it was undersized initially, too:

I think I see Gorbachev's face in Nancy's beef cut...

Not meaning to toot my horn (but I will), last night's dinner was great. Great food and company. It's a nice change of pace from the the usual lunch bunch dash and go. The two hour + meal was a leisurely delight...even though I had to keep one eye on Eddie & Jay to ensure that fisticuffs didn't start.

Glad to see that Cathy worked out the discrepancy.

jnm123 wrote:Of course, I went to the well once too often while describing Eddie's supercollider-like driving habits, picking out different internal organs that routinely shift if in the passenger seat of his rocket-ship Mercedes--this time it was my spleen...

As I mentioned at our recent lunch at Big Ed's, Eddie has the same kind of car as the one in this article.

Hi,

I stopped by the guy who fixes our Mercedes today. I mentioned the Cannonball run highlighted in nsxtasy's link. The guy said, "I built the car they used on the race. The car's owner lives in the area." They suggested checking out this video:



So if Eddie needs to go hyperspeed, then check out:

BNZhaus
109 Schelter Rd, Lincolnshire, IL 60069
Phone: (847) 681-2886

I was the third customer to mention Cannonball just today. Of course, I never put it together it was this close to home.

Regards,
Cathy2