[UPDATED] FINAL Night of Gluttony of the Year - December 2007!!!!

[larryhead]

UPDATE: NOG HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK A WEEK TO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 2007. PLEASE RSVP NOW :)

Hello folks! :wave:

Get your appetites ready... for the final NOG of the year we are going to Reza's Restuarant in River North! :binge:

Date: Tuesday, December 4 2007
Time: 7:30pm

Location:
Reza's Restaurant
432 W Ontario St
Chicago, IL 60610
Google Map (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=432+W+Ontario+St,+Chicago,+IL+60610,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=41.893237,-87.633948&spn=0.013034,0.026951&z=16&om=1)

http://www.rezasrestaurant.com/

"Reza's Restaurant offers you Persian, Middle-Eastern,
and Mediterranean Cuisine. Reza's Restaurant pleases
everyone's taste. Vegetarian or Meat lovers, you'll
definitely find something delicious for you. Most of our
dishes are prepared on open fire."

The portions are HUGE and tasty, and very reasonably priced. :thumbsup:

Please RSVP in this thread BEFORE next Tuesday if you can go or not and definitely bring some friends - the more the merrier!

I'm gonna try and get some folks from work to go too and mix things up a bit - if we get 25 people we can also get the Private Party Room, which would be pretty cool.

I hope you all can make it!!!! :banana:

[mrjohnchimpo]

ugh. can't make it. :cry:

[larryhead]

ah, bummer - well thanks anyhow for the rsvp. :upsidedown:

[hotfoot]

unfortunately (for NoG's sake) the foot and the sandwich (and therefore the sandwich's girlfriend) will be in mexico city gorging themselves on street vendor tacos.

[larryhead]

ah, that stinks (but i'm glad to hear you guys will be going somewhere warm).

i'll leave the date as it is for now... and if only a few people can make it then we'll push it back a week.

[ini]

Sounds like a good time to me. Count me in. :binge:
Will have to check and see if the woman wants to come down for it.
(I'll also ask around work and see if others are up for it)

[Floppy]

The Woman is in, too. Mmm...food...

[larryhead]

Cool, thanks for the reply guys :)

What about slam, assassin, paul, notorious?

[larryhead]

unfortunately (for NoG's sake) the foot and the sandwich (and therefore the sandwich's girlfriend) will be in mexico city gorging themselves on street vendor tacos.

Will you guys come if I push it back a week to Tuesday the 11th? Chimpo?

[larryhead]

Also, in the traditional NOG fashion, they also do FAMILY STYLE dinners!

Check out the bottom of their dinner menu (pdf (http://www.rezasrestaurant.com/dinner.pdf))

For $25 / person we can get a five course family style dinner - just tossing that out there as an option :D

[larryhead]

Also, if you need convincing - check out the reviews on Yelp.com (http://www.yelp.com/biz/ePZLxJ-H32Y_Rhv5NKUZsg)

:llama: :llama: :llama:

[mrjohnchimpo]

yeah i could make it on the 11th if it was pushed back. probably +1.

[slam]

i can probably do either week. just let me know.

[Floppy]

I'm up for some eating either week! Just keep us updated because I might have a couple of the British School teachers with me, and I'll need to check the date with them. Thanks!

[larryhead]

OK, since it looks like more people can make it on the 11th, let's push it back a week :)

NEW NOG DATE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007

[Tsunami]

I will be there +1!

[mrjohnchimpo]

MrJ, possibly +1.

[larryhead]

:thumbsup:

i just sent out an evite, so please check that out.

some of you may have gotten it more than once since i wasn't sure which email addy was most current. :)

[paul]

I will be there + 1

[larryhead]

hey hey! according to the Evite, we have 11 people going now :) - if we can get 14 more we can upgrade to the "party room"... i have no idea what that is, but i intend to find out!

:banana:

if i missed anyone on the Evite, you can PM me and I'll get you added, thankkkkkkkkssssssss.

[mrjohnchimpo]

do we have to respond to the evite if we responded here?

[larryhead]

please do :)

[slam]

we're at 17 confirmed on the evite now.

g'damn!

better make sure you make us a reservation there larryhead. any word from the kids in mexico?

[larryhead]

we're at 17 confirmed on the evite now.

g'damn!

better make sure you make us a reservation there larryhead. any word from the kids in mexico?

oohhhh nice!

i already made a reservation for 15 a few days ago just to be sure they'd have room for us... so if the kids from mexico can go we'll upgrade to the party room i think :thumbsup:

[mrjohnchimpo]

for anybody interested, the evite is here:

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=STXVXIKKSXKDMKCMYRYS&li=iq&src=email&trk=aei2

[larryhead]

un dia mas!

[larryhead]

WOOHOOOOOOOO START YOUR APPETITES...

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/300-leonidas-poster-l.jpg

[larryhead]

heheh... ok, maybe not in Hell.. but Reza's will be hot tonight.. I just called to confirm our reservation and we have 22 people going!

See y'all at 7:30 :wave:

[larryhead]

One more thing...

If you are driving, they have valet parking.. or you can try your luck finding a street spot. If you are taking the CTA, you can get directions here (http://tripsweb.rtachicago.com/) (just put in Reza's addy: 432 W Ontario St as the End address).

Also.. they have a FULL BAR... so don't worry about bringing alcohol :cheers:

[mrjohnchimpo]

also, there are a couple of parking garages in the area (one around orleans and hubbard for sure, my chick works near there). not sure about the cost though.

[paul]

Yo peeps. Just wanted to let you know that me and the lady will be a bit late. Hopefully, we'll be there at 7:30pm, but she's getting off work at 7:00pm, and we're going to have to catch a cab. Wish us luck!

[mrjohnchimpo]

WHEW that was good food. I thought the service at first was really, really crappy and the way the food ordering worked was confusing at first...but it got a bit better as the night progressed (Still took forever to get a drink though for how empty the place was). Plus the food was DELICIOUS. I would definitely recommend this joint to anybody.

LH, I know that one dude (Charlie?) expressed interest in the board and Chicago Gluttons and whatnot, so if you want to send him the link to this thread, here's the links we were talking about:

Chicago Gluttons
http://www.chicagogluttons.com/

N.O.G. Map
http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104181440763937187329.00000112c3c9242188c64&ll=41.957448,-87.671585&spn=0.060253,0.11673&z=13&om=1 (Updated with Reza's)

[larryhead]

OMG I'm still full... I can't believe how much food there was... it seemed like we would be done with the meal and then they would bring another course, and then another... :binge:

I think almost everyone brought home doggie bags too.. :eek:

Thanks everyone for coming out in the lousy weather, I'll post pics soon! :wave:

[larryhead]

WHEW that was good food. I thought the service at first was really, really crappy and the way the food ordering worked was confusing at first...but it got a bit better as the night progressed (Still took forever to get a drink though for how empty the place was). Plus the food was DELICIOUS. I would definitely recommend this joint to anybody.

LH, I know that one dude (Charlie?) expressed interest in the board and Chicago Gluttons and whatnot, so if you want to send him the link to this thread, here's the links we were talking about:

Chicago Gluttons
http://www.chicagogluttons.com/

N.O.G. Map
http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104181440763937187329.00000112c3c9242188c64&ll=41.957448,-87.671585&spn=0.060253,0.11673&z=13&om=1 (Updated with Reza's)

Thanks for the links chimpo, yeah it would be cool if some of the new peeps signed up here :thumbsup: