New Francesca’s, Pittsburgh Building in Chicago

Comfortable temps and sunshine in Chicago. We had a nice dinner at a new offshoot of Francesca’s on Chestnut downtown near Watertower Place – i was hoping for pasta bolognese but had pasta vongole (with clams and mussels which was good.) Yesterday I met my stepdaughter at the Pittsfield Building on Wabash, which has an ornate well-maintained arcade with an original old-fashioned lunch counter. We ate in the four-five story atrium of the building. Nothing fancy but good tuna salad and grilled cheese and breakfast served much of the day. Worth another visit – if only to look more at the building’s ornamentation.