June 4, 2016
After living in Chicago from 1980-1994 and then countless visits back, sometimes for a weeks at a time from 1994-2014 while my parents still lived there, I still never made it to Arun's. My husband flew me to Chicago for a birthday weekend with girlfriends and they finally helped make this happen for me!
Me with my friend, Veronica
And my friend Kelly
Arun's is "a showcase for Thai food as creative haute cuisine - a concept that didn't exist before this place opened in the mid-1980's."
You have two choices: You can choose the 10-course meal for $85 or the 12-course meal for $100.
We went for the 12-course!
And this was course #1.
Course #2
Course #3
Course #4
Course #5
Course #6 (the last of the appetizers)
Courses 7-10 are served family style
Courses #11 and 12 are the two desserts
Dessert #1
And Dessert #2
And as a bonus, since I was celebrating a birthday, we actually got an extra dessert!
Verdict: No. The service was great, so no complaints there. But the food was just so-so. Now, maybe it was because I had an ear infection and a raging case of cellulitis at the time, making it painful to chew and difficult to fully immerse myself in the experience, but I heard they took this out of the "revised" edition of the book and I can see why.
But the company I was with?.... can't be beat. 5 stars for Sure!
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