{"id":12368,"date":"2015-11-02T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2015-11-02T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:16:35","slug":"pilot-petes-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=12368","title":{"rendered":"Schaumburg, IL – Pilot Petes Restaurant Review 10\/2015 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was flying home from FCO, stopped at ORD and taxied out to a suburban airport<\/a> to hook up with a friend, and bum a ride on his plane back to Santa Barbara. He was held up with a ground stop at TEB, so I was gonna have a couple of hours to kill. \u00a0Luckily, there was a bar and restaurant at the airstrip. \u00a0I didn’t even know the airport was there, despite the fact I used to live nearby. Seems more like it’s for personal aircraft, I didn’t see many corporate-sized planes on the tie downs. \u00a0There’s a flight school and heliport, as well.<\/p>\n

The restaurant overlooks the runway, and it’s called Pilot Pete’s<\/a>. \u00a0 It has an aviation theme (surprise!) with large scale model airplanes hanging from the ceiling, airline seats in the waiting area, and other general air knick-knacks as decorations.<\/p>\n

I admire the owner\/manager, this place has a very long menu, seemingly no pre-prepared dishes, as well as daily specials. It has to be a chore to keep everything running smoothly. The waitstaff is clad in shirts that say “Flight Crew,” and the couple I talked to said they’d worked there for years and wouldn’t work anyplace else.<\/p>\n

Although this place is apparently known for its version of the hundred dollar hamburger<\/a>, I was in the mood for something a little different, and surprise, I over ordered. \u00a0Started with an amazing “Fall Salad”, which crisp greens, blueberry, chicken and damn near a half pound of feta. \u00a0Salad came with soup, and I opted for French Onion, piping hot, flavorful, with the traditional baked cheese\/crouton cap.<\/p>\n

Launched into the restaurant’s version of a Cuban, which the menu says is an homage to the one prepared by Treasure Island<\/a> in Tampa. \u00a0Pete’s strayed a little bit by adding mayo, tomato, and lettuce, which didn’t take away from the quality meats and cheese, which were amply packed between \u00a0pressed \u00a0halves of a garlic Cuban baguette.<\/p>\n

The only downside to the meal were the accompanying fries, which were the extruded type<\/a>, good flavoring and seasoning, just not a personal favorite. Overall, it was a terrific meal with portion sizes that could easily have served three. \u00a0 Sandwich, soup, salad, cocktail, $40 including tip.<\/p>\n

Here’s the menu<\/a>. \u00a0 (Update, October 2015). \u00a0Had their “hundred dollar burger” and onion blossom. \u00a0I added Asiago and onion straws to the 10 oz medium rare patty. Excellent. Pics down below.<\/p>\n

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Pilot Petes Restaurant Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was flying home from FCO, stopped at ORD and taxied out to a suburban airport to hook up with a friend, and bum a ride on his plane back to Santa Barbara. He was held up with a ground stop at TEB, so I was gonna have a couple of hours to kill. \u00a0Luckily,… Continue reading Schaumburg, IL – Pilot Petes Restaurant Review 10\/2015 Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7,11,12,16,25,27],"tags":[236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}