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…
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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
Joe Bova and Jeff Steinberg, formerly in the entertainment industry and most recently the men behind the chocolate chip cookies at DMK, are expanding the biz. In late January, they plan to open Cookie Bar, a bakery in Lincoln Park that specializes in . . . well, cookies. Think potato-chip chocolate chip and at least … Read more
Pascal Berthoumieux was born and raised in Bordeaux, where he attended culinary school and dreamed of owning a bistro somewhere in France. But Berthoumieux met his American wife on the Champs-Élysées, and Bistro Bordeaux ended up in Evanston instead of Paris. His menu is loaded with all the classics, of course—soupe à la oignon, escargots, … Read more
In case you’re the lone Chicagoan who hasn’t heard the news: Revolution Brewing, the much anticipated Logan Square brewpub from Handlebar’s Josh Deth, opened last Wednesday to great fanfare and epic waits. Our photographer stopped by Saturday evening and snapped a packed house of early adopters sipping from the inaugural lineup of four house-brewed beers…
