UPDATED 03.03.10 From February 19th to 28th, The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau presented its 3rd annual Chicago Restaurant Week. Did you miss out on your top choice? Don’t pout for long. Based on the week’s wild popularity, several restaurants have granted us an encore performance of their three-course prix fixe menu—$22 at lunch and … Read more
A pair of upscale Italian restaurants in glamorous hotels both start in the Old Country—and go in drastically different directions
Not only did the ladies line up outside Enclave on Saturday to see Brody Jenner (the MTV-anointed prince of reality shows from The Hills to Bromance), they observed the night’s recommended-attire memo with gusto. See our photos from the Little Red Dress Valentine’s Day Party below…
If you build it, it will open. After months of renovations and waiting on licenses, Chicago’s third Small Bar, on Fullerton Avenue, launched with relatively little fanfare last week. Our photographer stopped by Saturday night to snap the not-so-small space. Also not so small? The burger, whose Division Street sibling we…
Our gallery of some of the best bars in Chicago
These ten bars happen to be in restaurants, but they merit some hang time even if you don’t stay for the food
What better place to return a necklace borrowed from a friend than at tonight’s bead-slinging Mardi Gras Ball , hosted by Thrillist at Bucktown’s Double Door? Particularly when the necklace in question is strung with golden skulls whose hinged jaws…
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A 230-seat all-night diner downtown: Really? “Yes,” says Peter Sakoufakis, the owner of Eggsperience (35 W. Ontario St.; 312-870-6773). “We opened Monday morning [February 8th] at 6 a.m., and we’re never closing after that. We’re throwing away the key.” The last two inhabitants of the bright River North corner space—Masck and Graze—were…
Given the exuberant décor—salvaged pinball machines, high-school chem-lab equipment, and automotive scraps (the booths made from seat belts are surprisingly comfortable)—you might expect the food to be more playful than satisfying. But there’s more to this lively corner bar than meets the eye, starting with four kinds of empanadas (a steal at six for $7.50) … Read more
Karyn Calabrese serves raw vegan food in Lincoln Park, cooked vegan food in River North, and now at her latest spot—just a block off the meat-and-fish-heavy Greektown—some of both. This entails dishes meant to approximate crab cakes, scallops, short ribs, and fried chicken, as well as her usual uncooked creations, such as a hummus plate … Read more
