This morning my friend Jenny IM’d me on Facebook to ask, “I wonder if there’s any vodka left at Lillie’s Q?” Yep, it was that kind of night. More on Lillie’s Q in a minute. Our spree began with cocktail hour on the patio at Eno, the InterContinental Hotel’s wine, cheese and chocolate lounge…
The Bar 10 Doors—say it out loud, faster now; that’s right: “the bar-ten-ders”—opened last week in Little Italy (1259 W. Taylor St.; 312-226-1611) next door to its slightly older sibling, the eclectic global-tapas spot and eccentrically punctuated One. Six One. “We’re looking to get American craft beers and…
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CUMIN This hip urban Indian spot has the trendoids in a tailspin: no charcuterie, no small plates, no craft beers. 1414 N. Milwaukee Ave.; 773-342-1414 THE PORTAGE Quay Tao, a savvy Tizi Melloul vet, turned Portage Park into an overnight sensation. 3938 N. Central Ave.; 773-853-0779 GILT BAR Now that the restaurant curse at this … Read more
This year’s favorite sweets, found at Paprika, Terzo Piano, The Purple Pig, and Ceres’ Table
Belly Up
This Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., as part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Logan Square Kitchen (2333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; 773-342-2333), a commercial kitchen and event space, hosts a pop-up restaurant with food from Bill Kim (Urbanbelly, Belly Shack) and Jason Hammel (Lula Cafe, Nightwood). Kim says he’s using the pop-up to field-test food for an inkling of a new restaurant called Country Belly. Kim’s menu:
The chef Graham Elliot Bowles is the first “culinary director” of Lollapalooza, the gargantuan music festival for the masses that seizes downtown Chicago August 6th through 8th. It makes sense: The guy’s a musician, and c’mon, he even has a tattoo that references the Cali punk band Jawbreaker on his forearm…
Modeled after a speakeasy and tucked underneath the popular River North restaurant Gilt Bar (230 W. Kinzie St.), Curio opened in mid-June as a welcome spot for sipping hand-crafted cocktails and admiring some Prohibition-era décor. Our photographer dropped by Friday night and caught a small but stylish crowd lounging on the luxurious leather…
Feel free to remind me of this throughly ungrateful statement sometime in mid-February, but at this very moment I can’t help it: I’ve had it up to here with the heat. I want to take a break from sweating while waiting for a patio seat, sweating while making small talk, sweating while sipping a warmish beer and sweating while eating a link of encased meat…
