Just when winter was starting to wear us down, a new bar brings a breath of balmy air: The Jamaican-themed Mr. Brown’s Lounge, named for a Bob Marley lyric, opened this weekend in the old Sak’s address in the Ukrainian Village. Our photographer stopped by to snap early adopting barflies as they tested the…
The Peninsula? The Four Seasons? The Ritz? Get me there, get me on a velvet couch—oh, and somebody get me a cocktail, please.
I’m a sucker for luxe hotel bars. That’s why, when an invite from the Elysian finally arrived in my inbox last week, I replied…
Sable on the Table
Heather Terhune, who has run the kitchen at Atwood Cafe (Hotel Burnham, 1 W. Washington St.; 312-368-1900) for ten years, plans to leave her post at year’s end to helm the upcoming…
Beware: Portion sizes never let up
So what if the Lincoln Park bar Faith & Whiskey wasn’t around for last year’s landmark 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s repeal? As far as the relative newbie is concerned, booze’s legal return just might deserve a celebration every year. On Friday the spot hosted a 1930s-style bash, complete with dancers from Ripettes Burlesque and a new…
The quintessential anti-sports bar opens in Wicker Park
Giuseppe Scurato’s promising contemporary American restaurant plans to reinterpret classics
The humble turnover gets its 15 minutes
As I stood in the rain last night, waiting to cross the street to Big Star (1531 N. Damen Ave.; 773-235-4039), I could already see them on the blacktop out front: the Wicker Park hipsters, hunched coolly in vintage peacoats and smoking cigarettes on the same patio where, not long ago, people with tattoos and big dogs used to…
The owners source ingredients for all-organic Nana as carefully as buyers for the most expensive places in town, though their menu is far from uppity.
