Way back in September, 2004, five University of Chicago students realized that they didn't know enough about Chicago restaurants and they needed new ways to make themselves poorer.  Suddenly, inspiration struck: "What about a dinner club?"  The rest is history (well, actually all of it is history, and New Historicism tells us that history itself is a disputed space–can you tell that we're grad students?).

Anyway, the 5ive 4 Food Fun was born! (Well, it wasn't actually born–that would be messy.)  54FF meets biweekly(-ish) for lunch/brunch/dinner in an effort to explore the best of Chicago dining. (note: definition of 'best' varies based on criteria such as cheapness, originality, completely un-p.c. ethnic 'authenticity' and/or camp value.)  At our first meeting at Orange Restaurant, we joked that we should give ourselves a name and take minutes of our meetings.  With a napkin, a pen and a bit too much coffee, we took minutes, gave ourselves professional-sounding titles and scheduled our next meeting.

Why are we doing this?  Beats me.  Quite frankly, if you were a student at U of C, you'd probably do the same thing.  Hours of reading can blur your judgement.

p.s. This thingy is still under construction, so stop yer whining.