The weekend is the week’s salted rim.
There are things in life you want to do, things that you should do, and things you must do. Licking the Bourbon Fudgesicle, Prairie Fire’s latest attempt to blur the line between childhood nostalgia and hard liquor, is that precious thing that transcends all three.
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’QUED UP Bourbon and Pulled Pork at Lillie’s Q We think it’s time for a whiskey toast. (We’ll figure out a reason later.) Luckily, Lillie’s Q’s pulled pork—which you can slather with four styles of sauce—is available in convenient sandwich form. So you can eat and hoist your bourbon at the same time. |
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You can mix Guinness with almost anything and hit upon a classic cocktail: champagne (the Black Velvet), port (the Midnight), cider (the Snakebite), other beer (Black and Tan). This basement tavern’s class lets you try them all, though mixing Guinness with another Guinness is also encouraged.
You have nothing against brunch, other than the early start time. So stumble into Wave tonight for a five-course breakfast-for-dinner soiree of salmon blinis, french toast, fried chicken and waffles, plus mimosas and Goose Island Matilda. After all, breakfast is the most important meal of the night.
This two-day celebration of the Coen brothers’ top bowling-related cinematic accomplishment has become an annual tradition of film screenings, live music and 7-10 splits. It culminates on Saturday with a bowling party and costume contest. Finally, your terrycloth bathrobe will get the recognition it deserves.
In case the fact that an old bar/liquor store combo has suddenly become a hipster destination on the South Side isn’t strange enough, Saturday there is dedicated to Mad Men-era oddball vinyl artifacts—like Music for Swingin’ Bowlers and Music to Recline By (In a Berkline Chair). Bring your own Berkline chair.
