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Smith No More: Logan Square’s Soon-to-open Wine Bar Must Pick a New Name
Smith may be the most common surname in America, but a certain bar in New York is determined to keep it the least common bar name.
Shortly after my post went up about plans for a new Logan Square wine bar and restaurant brought to us by the owners of The Bluebird and Webster’s Wine Bar, that team was contacted by another team—of lawyers…
Weekend Photos: North Shore Distillery Tour and Tasting Room
You may not frequently find yourself in the far North Shore burg of Lake Bluff on Friday evenings, but perhaps you just haven’t had a reason. Now you do: On Friday, North Shore Distillery led its inaugural facility tour and opened its tasting room to the public for the very first time…
Robata Cooking Comes to River North
TREND: Roka Akor, Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar, and Japonais introduce the ancient Japanese tradition
Shiver Me Timbers: The Chaser Climbs Aboard the Red Witch’s New Cocktail Cruise
You’ve seen the Windy. It’s that many-masted vessel docked at Navy Pier that looks like a playground for fanny-pack wearing families from Iowa hoping to live out their Pirates of the Caribbean fantasies.
Or at least that’s what I was thinking yesterday as my sister Liv and I prepared to venture aboard a skyline cocktail cruise on the Red Witch, a smaller boat operated by the same company…
Big News in Pastry: Interviews with Patrick Fahy and Meg Galus
Taking the Cake
Two big hitters in Chicago’s pastry world announced moves recently…
Board Room: The Meeting Starts Late at River North’s Newest Nightclub
Last night my glancing interest in all things Paris Hilton (I know, so 2003) landed me at the new River North nightclub Board Room, located in the old RiNo space. Paris was in no way expected, but two costars from her show The World According to Paris on Oxygen—“L.A.’s hottest party girl” Allison Melnick and July 1999 Playmate of the Month Jennifer Rovero—were listed as hosts for the Svedka vodka–sponsored party…
Weekend Photos: Tzar Ultra Lounge
Don’t let that unassuming wood-paneled façade fool you: Tzar Ultra Lounge is no local dive. The new River North nightclub bears a red-carpeted entrance, a list of 150 vodkas, a vodka vault reserved for big spenders, and a staff of modelesque bartenders mixing (you guessed it) vodka cocktails…
The Chaser’s First Impressions of Tzar Ultra Lounge
My guard was up last night from the moment I drove onto a particular block of River North, where the nightclubs Crescendo, Y, Sound-Bar, and now Tzar Ultra Lounge are all clustered. Parking my car around the corner on Franklin Street, I spotted a trio of teetering, sequined young women who had just alighted from an early model Rav4 bearing a suburban dealership logo and who nervously clutched pink Victoria’s Secret shopping bags as they read the instructions on the meter box…
The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in June in order of heat
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month