2 Sparrows [2], Chicago IL

2 Sparrows

Duck Hash – duck confit, russet potatoes, peppers, onions, poached egg, fresh greens

Parisian Gnocchi – house made gnocchi, roasted root vegetables, tomato sauce, poached farm fresh eggs, pecorino

Lemon poppyseed pancakes – lemon compound butter & maple syrup

French Toast – Brioche, honey mascarpone & maple syrup

Goat Cheese Sticky Bun

Nutella & orange spice Pop-Tart

Wild mushroom & goat cheese Pop Tart

Chocolate Bread Pudding with Coffee Anglaise

If my first visit to 2 Sparrows represented the very best of what the restaurant is capable of then I have little doubt that my second represented the worst – from the disinterested service of a young woman named Jackie to a sticky bun that was essentially an over-baked biscuit topped with dense, sticky paste and onward to three “poached” eggs that were better called hard boiled served over undercooked, barely edible potatoes in not one, but two dishes it was the saleable art on the wall and the Bread Pudding alone that prevented this from being the most disappointing meal of all time…and even then, those saving graces aren’t enough to ever see me return…not when an answer to the overcooked eggs was to take them away, leave the gnocchi and hash cooling on the table, and return ten minutes later with better eggs…and twenty minutes later with a bill pushing $100 and no acknowledgement that anyone cared that the meal was awful (even after an e-mail to the restaurant later that day.)