The Theory of Weekend.
Your Perks: 1) 64% off a fitted button-down from Jared Lang. Prepare for compliments. 2) A palm-size drone. Need we say more? 3) A leather bag for winter. Use it to travel somewhere warmer.
The pros of wintering in Chicago: Vertigo Sky Lounge—the city’s only outdoor rooftop ice bar on the 26th floor of the Dana Hotel—is kicking off its fifth season with white chocolate martinis, s’mores and a crystallized fire pit. The cons: [REDACTED].
In the South Loop: Motor Row Brewing’s lager-focused tasting room opened yesterday inside
a historic former automobile showroom. Three cheers for upgrades.
In River North: Gino’s Brewing Company is now pouring a variety of homebrewed beer for
you to pair with various menu items at Gino’s East. Namely, pizza.
Miku Sushi Lounge, the love child of two Tank Sushi vets, opens tonight in Lincoln Square. Which means you’re about to become privy to new small-plate options like foie gras with truffle soy, plus all your old Tank favorites like the lobster-and-fried-banana maki. Hey, the more things change...
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of DMK Restaurants, the Michelin Bib Gourmand–approved people over at Ada St. are pouring you a gratis glass of Chateau Moncontour just for walking through the door. If the only thing you got from that was “gratis glass of Chateau Moncontour,” you’re doing it right.
On Monday night, you and a date are heading to the Harris Theater to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform the score from Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic There Will Be Blood. Composed by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, it’s both hauntingly vivid and hastily foreboding. We never said it would be a romantic date.
