@ CF:
While I have never eaten at Tuscany at the ORD outlet its just an average Italian restaurant in Chicago’s Little Italy. They used to have a mediocre outlet across from Wrigley Field but that closed in the last year or so and is now a bar … just what that area needs.

myriam wrote:

There’s a new restaurant that just opened in the … C gate area (I believe), but at an intersection of another side hallway heading off to the little arm where the Ted gates *used* to be

Good catch, Myriam. It looks like it’s called Tuscany and it is in the “banana” down where the old Ted gates were – B19-B22. From the reviews on Yelp, the food seems to be stellar. Thanks for the heads up!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/stefanis-tuscany-cafe-chicago-2

Just discovered this website. That’s some concierge service! I guess you do get what you pay for. Too bad about the Prairie Bar at O’Hare. At least you can updated your records.

side note to add to your O’Hare restaurant listings :

There’s a new restaurant that just opened in the … C gate area (I believe), but at an intersection of another side hallway heading off to the little arm where the Ted gates *used* to be… I know that’s not very helpful, but I can’t remember the gate designations over there. Anyway, the restaurant is off the beaten path, so you would NOT know it’s there unless you happened to go down toward those ex-Ted gates. But, the menu & food looked delicious — it is some kind of Italian terrace-y thing — and there is NOTHING else in that whole long B-C gate hallway except McDonald’s and Starbucks so trust me, this is a great thing to know about.

Brett,
Its been wonderful to see how the service has evolved, since the days of my early testing. It looks like there have been some wonderful improvements.

Continual improvement rocks!

A wrote:

Slow news? What about US Airways deferred delivery of 54 Airbus aircraft?

Yeah, well I wrote this piece last night so I didn’t see that coming. But that’s not really something I’d write about on Cranky anyway since it’s mostly just a financial transaction. Sure, they will keep flying older planes for longer but that’s the only real impact on customers.

David SFeastbay wrote:

So I see you keep your Cranky Elves in Northern California helping to guide people during there holiday travels. Any of them have a bright shinny red nose by chance? :-)

Nope, not actually in Northern California – I just picked that phone number via Google Voice because, well, it’s 707!

Slow news? What about US Airways deferred delivery of 54 Airbus aircraft?

And here I thought today your blog would start out with a headline saying “What ever happen to D.B. Cooper?”

Since today it the 38th anniversary of him, a parachute, and $200,000 jumped out of that Northwest 727 over Washington State. While NW will soon be gone, that mystery will go on.

So I see you keep your Cranky Elves in Northern California helping to guide people during there holiday travels. Any of them have a bright shinny red nose by chance? :-)