Billy Goat Tavern

Time to spare after a press screening in the Loop and before an early evening presentation to potential buyers at Zolla-Lieberman Gallery in River North, where some of my work is in a group photo show. So I'm trying to figure what food's fast but good. I consider my options on the walk across the Michigan Avenue bridge over the River, resisting my first impulse, the Billy Goat Tavern. But I give in, not caring to be imaginative and I'm glad I wasn't. Yum: good, old-fashioned cheeseburger that I pile high with thick-sliced dill pickles, with even more slices on the side, the savor of a good hamburger dill, but still tasting of cucumber and with some of the barrel tang you'd expect from a dill bought on Delancey Street.