Cue the pipe organ: The Shady Lady (712 N. Clark St.; 312-624-9008), a new circus-meets-burlesque lounge in River North, opened to the public last Friday, and our photographer was onsite to catch early adopters mugging for the camera. The bar marks the return of the once and future nightlife entrepreneur Dion Antic to Chicago’s bar scene. Antic is…
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Double cheeseburger and fries at M Burger Streeterville, rejoice—the Lettuce Entertain You team has carved a nook out of the Tru kitchen for M Burger, a walk-up counter offering delectably inexpensive burgers, fries, shakes, and nothing else. Tim Hockett, a Lettuce corporate chef, led the charge by creating the signature M Burger (all-natural Midwest beef … Read more
Friends from grade school, Gary Strauss (biggish) and Tony D’Alessandro (littleish) are giving fast food a good name at scrappy Big & Little’s, where, sure, you can get a hot dog ($2.50), but you can also get a made-to-order crab tostada ($4) enlivened with a spritz of lemon and a dash of cayenne. Or maybe … Read more
You may recognize the chef heading up the open kitchen in this new 158-seat “gastro lounge”: It’s Heather Terhune, the former pastry chef at 312 Chicago and longtime executive chef at Atwood Cafe. “I’m really excited to show Chicago the other side of me,” says Terhune, who spent her childhood in Vermont picking mushrooms and … Read more
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