Your weekend was born under a good sign.
Today is Thursday. If that doesn't call for a toast, then you don't know what does. Happily, the kind folks at the Binny's Ivanhoe Castle will be popping the corks on cava, prosecco, California sparklers and good old-fashioned champers. Basically, it's a pre-weekend bubble bath.
This weather is the stuff dreams are made of. Of course, you have other dreams too. Dreams of a patio party filled with sake and copious amounts of sushi eaten at Japonais's riverside lounge. Your dreams are about to come true.
To introduce you to their new chef, Atwood is launching Atwood After Dark, an evening bar/patio soiree with $5 martinis and Manhattans, plus nosh like short rib sliders and shrimp corn dogs. If you stay for dinner, they'll throw in a bacon-peanut butter chocolate bar. Nothing like a little bribe for dessert.
Speakeasies, sweaty discos, apple martinis—bar fads come and go. And then you have your stalwarts, like a trusty corner saloon. Celebrate Lottie's 76 years of keeping mugs nice and frosty with 76-cent beers, a buffet of bar staples and live band karaoke—just like the one that backed Grandpa during "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
It's Sunday, and you've got a new brunch to investigate (sorry, we don't make the rules). The sporty Loop gastropub whips up Monte Cristos, beignets and banana French toast. You'll also be tasked with bartender duty at a make-your-own-Bloody bar—some work is never done.
