Things You Accidentally Learn While Googling For Chicago Restaurants

By Melissa McEwen in Food on Dec 31, 2014 5:15PM

FYI there's not much fat in rice (Computer from Shutterstock)

Did you know that 1 cup of rice contains 1.8 grams of fat? You probably do if you've searched for the address or menu of local Macanese restaurant Fat Rice, because Google helpfully displays it on the top of your search results. It's just one of several things we've learned through Googling local restaurants.

Did you know Billy Sunday was a baseball player who became a popular Christian Evangelist whose preaching played a role in the adoption of Prohibition? His face stares dour and disapproving at you if you Google local cocktail bar Billy Sunday, an establishment Billy Sunday would not have approved of.

Analogue isn't just one of our favorite cocktail bars and restaurants in Logan Square, Google has also informed us at least 20 times that it's a noun and adjective, but spelled like "analog" in the US. At least these days Analogue is at the top of the search results if you search from Chicago.

Critical darling Parachute in Avondale isn't so lucky. It's still number two under some band that seems like a boy band just from the little picture Google helpfully provides us. We'd never know about this band if Google hadn't told us while we were dreaming of Bi Bim Bop…

Nico, One Off Hospitality's Italian seafood restaurant, is even further down the results list at #4 after well, pretty famous singer-songwriter Nico, who gets a nice big box from Google. At least they are the first result when you search for their full name, Nico Osteria.

Charlatan is the first website listed, but after a very large dictionary definition of the word, which is "a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud." Not the most flattering word in the world is it? Luckily their website enlightens us to why they choose the name: "Charlatan to many is a huckster, a mountebank, an impersonator. To us he is a showman, who does much with little. Turning flour, water, and egg into spaghetti, lumache, and bucatini."