Sunday, March 21, 2004

Blue Cheese at Jimmy's

Jimmy's Place in Forest Park is a well documented Chowhound favorite. For instance see here, here, or here. Has anyone, however, fully documented Jimmy's skill with blue cheese?

First, of course, there is their finger cramping stunt of getting the blue cheese into the olives to accompany their superior martini's. Besides those olives, Jimmy's shakes up about my favorite martini, having pretty much what I want and need: extreme cold, extreme pour and any top shelf liquor like Bombay Sapphire for the respectable $7.50 (especially respectable as 1 drink sets up well for the entire night). Second, Jimmy's offers for the splurge of an extra dollar, the ability to spew blue cheese all over their house salad. A simple salad, but their house dressing, strong of garlic and vinegar combines ideally with the blue cheese to make a stinky, strong statement, that I suppose goes ideally with those martini's. The rest of the food is generally good. Fried calamari the other night were better than sometimes--occasionally too dry, but I was most pleased with my blue cheese dinner.

Jimmy's Place
7411 Madison
Forest Park, IL
(708) 771-7476

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