We got a full tank of gas. Half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark. And it’s the weekend.
The Mayan calendar foresaw this. Well, we assume it did, anyway. Lakeview’s tiny Mayan-themed restaurant opened a sister spot yesterday in West Town. It’s serving pumpkin soups, pecan moles, goat-cheese enchiladas and gingerbread tres leches. We won’t let the world end before you try it.
The Public hotel has a film series. And it serves free popcorn. Also, cognac. So head over, cuddle up with a blankie in its screening room and watch its ongoing investigation into the career of Natalie Portman with The Professional. Though you prefer her later work as a rapper.
You really don’t know how to pair beer with cheese. It’s okay. Somehow, you’ve managed to fake it. But the lies end here. Hopleaf and Marion Street Cheese Market host a night filled with Belgian beers and a variety of cheeses to match them with. Consider it an intervention.
You and 50 friends can have this amiable fish shack—and all its oysters and bourbon—to yourselves on New Year’s Eve. Just win its eBay auction this Friday. Basically, it’s Indecent Proposal, but Demi Moore’s part is played by a lobster roll.
A new sports bar. Not necessarily that interesting. But this new second-floor sports bar is different: it has Peruvian cuisine in the form of sirloin-stuffed Incan Tater Tots, plantains and ceviche, in addition to wings and bacon cheeseburgers. Plus, the Incas worshipped Ditka as a god.
