Black Wednesday is to bars what Sweetest Day is to Hallmark: a pure marketing maneuver. What once was a night for city transplants to journey back home to their families—and for everyone else, a chance to hit the grocery store for last-minute cans of cranberry goo—has become a night to party hard and kick off the holidays with a beer-and-a-shot bar special because it’s Black Wednesday! (Whatever that means)…
Graham Elliot, James Toland, Chuy Valencia, et al.: They’re out of the kitchen and out of control. Who’s to blame?
The era of cheap coffee is ending as the commodity increases in price. But for coffee snobs, that’s actually okay: a good gourmet Chicago coffee is still cheaper than McDonald’s, if you make it yourself.
If you serve $4 drafts, they will come. On Saturday night, a hearty, beer-drinking crowd kicked back at The Anthem, a new seventies-themed sports bar in Ukrainian Village that opened this week…
SOLID GOLD: A revamped Gold Coast hotel debuts the Library and the Pump Room, two dazzling destinations for drinking and gawking
PUMPED-UP KICKS: Steering through the precarious intersection of celebrities and restaurants
A new spot with a rock-star decadence
Stuff It
In April, Noah Himmel, a member of the third generation to own and operate the Edwardo’s Natural Pizza chain of restaurants, brought a radical idea to his father and grandfather…
If you squint your eyes, you can almost see Ashton Kutcher and the gang from That ’70s Show leaning against a high-top table at The Anthem, a new Ukrainian Village bar that soft opens tonight. (The official opening is tomorrow.) There are a few modern marvels…
A new app uses facial-recognition technology to tell you the age and gender mix of bar patrons in specific Chicago watering holes, and whether or not they’re “chill,” “social,” “hoppin,” or “crazy.” TMI? Not enough.
