After opening Nine and Ghostbar in Chicago, Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff took their restaurant/club sensations to Las Vegas—and kicked off a huge party scene in Sin City. The two former Highland Park classmates, along with a slew of pioneering Chicago restaurateurs, keep upping the ante in a land where hot still trumps haute
On Black Wednesday, a debaucherous night of pre-Thanksgiving drinking, revelers gathered at Timothy O’Toole’s in Streeterville to compete in a fried turkey balls eating contest. The prize? A frozen turkey, which has us wondering: Did the winner have enough time to defrost it? Browse our photos below…
Taverna 750, Red Violet, Acadia, and Central St Cafe
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
