Results tagged “fourseasons”

Or, in honor of the start of holiday shopping season, we should probably christen this week's installment the "Black Friday Buffet". Anyway, let's get to it. West Lakeview Liquors weekly tastings will focus on Christmas ales (tonight) and whiskies (tomorrow). The French Wine Society is sponsoring a wine and cheese tasting at Taste Food & Wine in Rogers Park from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Cost is $30 for Wine Society members; $35 all others ChicaGourmets and...

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...

After a wildly successful run on Broadway that received 8 Tony nominations and 4 wins, including best musical, Jersey Boys toured the country before arriving in Chicago for a six-month stint down at The LaSalle Bank Theatre.

Winston’s Market on Southport suffers from multiple personalities. But unlike Sybil, it’s a good thing. Opened last May, this former shoe boutique now houses a deli, a self-service restaurant, a beer and wine store, and a gourmet prepared-foods shop. Sound like they have too much on their plate? Not when we stopped by and noticed that the friendly staff had plenty of time to answer our questions, take our order (they didn’t even flinch when we asked for our bread to be toasted on the already prepared sandwich), quickly wiped down tables and chairs (why do other places always forget this?), prepared orders to go, and hand-delivered them to customers checking to make sure they had pronounced their names correctly, and waved at babies. Whew!

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like...

Ah, Thanksgiving. A time when we, as Americans, make like the pilgrims did so many years ago and cook up sweet potatoes with marshmallows, roasted or deep-fried turkey, and mashed potatoes of various types. Except for 1) the pilgrims didn't do any of this shit, 2) they actually wanted to cook an eagle and 3) there is no reason for you to have to do any of this either if you make your plans now...

For further proof that Chicago has become ground zero for culinary innovation, AAA announced their 2007 Five Diamond-rated restaurants last week. Alinea and Avenues in the Peninsula Hotel joined Charlie Trotter's, Arun's, Tru, Everest, and the Four Seasons Hotel's Seasons Restaurant to bring our toddlin' town's number to an astounding seven. That's the highest number of Five Diamond-rated restaurants in the country for a single city. There was no mention of our favorite place to...

AAA (yes, that would be the AAA of the rescuing you when you have a flat tire fame) announced their Five Diamond Awards for hospitality yesterday, and seven Chicago restaurants were named to the elite level, more than any other city in the nation. Three hotels also made the cut.

It seems Chicago is following in the footsteps of Las Vegas and New York when it comes to hotel dining. On Sunday, the Tribune reported Chefs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand of Tru have plans to bring four new restaurant concepts to the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, which will open in Wheeling this October. Dining options at the Westin will include Osteria Di Tramonto (serving breakfast lunch and dinner), Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood (a...

There are two ways to determine which posts were the most popular posts on Chicagoist this year: comments and hits. A lot of commenting tells us you've got feedback, you want to talk about things. Either the subject of the post or the way the post was written has struck a cord. A lot of hits means that even though you may not have commented on a post a lot, you went back and read it a lot. Or maybe you forwarded the link to the post to a lot of people.

R. Kelly's wife agreed to let a court drop the order of protection she had secured against him earlier this month. She says she has had enough of court wranglings and wants to try to work out their marriage. The order had given Andrea Kelly custody of their three children, possession of their 2003 Mercedes, and called for "no contact at all by any means" between her and the R&B crooner. Andrea sought the order after the R snapped on August 24 over seeing a picture of her with another man in Miami.

Every year Chicago Magazine chooses a handful of people who they believe have made our city a better place. This year they've chosen 6 people to honor as Chicagoans of the Year:

Cities were rated on sights, culture/arts, restaurants/food, people, shopping, and value. We’re going to start formulating a plan to beat at least Vancouver and Santa Fe next year, and everyone’s going to need to pitch in. Or maybe we just need to flood the votes next time around.