Results tagged “supperclub”

While it's now wise to take a wait-and-see approach to the opening of Dale Levitski's long-planned West Loop outpost Town and Country, the "Top Chef 3" runner-up is also jumped on the supper club bandwagon. Levitski is cooking a weekly dinner at Relax Lounge (1450 W. Chicago Ave.) from 7-9 p.m. Thursdays. For $25, it's worth a shot. [UrbanDaddy]

Local catering company City Provisions is entering the already crowded "supper club" pool currently shared by Sunday Dinner Club, Bonsoiree, Efrain Cuevas' Clandestino, Bill "The Fish Guy" Dugan's Wellfleet and Jorgina Pereira's Sinhá.

This weekend, we visited the monument to fashionable pretension that is RL, the Ralph Lauren restaurant. The first time we dined there, about a year ago for lunch, our level of suspicion was high – can a fashion designer really create a restaurant concept worth bothering with? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. RL, despite a few flaws, is a competent restaurant and, more than that, showcases many dishes that the rest of the food world cast aside 40 years ago.

Café Society, located in the Historic Prairie District's National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, is quickly finding itself to be an unwelcome tenant. The museum's board of directors served owner Jorge Armando "Chef George" Anafador an eviction notice last year, allegedly for being habitually late with the rent - and who hasn't? This prompted Anafador, whose lease on the café runs through 2013, to file a lawsuit fighting the eviction notice. Anafador's lawsuit throws a wrench...

"His options were quickly running out" via p2wy

Sri Lanken-born, Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club owner Ramesh Ariyanayakam and owner Edward Gisiger are hosting a benefit for the victims of the tsunami from 6 till 9 p.m. tomorrow night, January 6, at their 3700 N. Halsted Street restaurant.

If 2004 was the year of tapas, or small-plate dining, then 2005 will be the year of the Comfort Food. Comfort food — think hearty, filling — has been making its way onto menus for some time now. After 9/11, the school of thought was that restaurant patrons wanted something that would soothe the mind as well as sate the belly. Meatloaf, for instance, has popped up in some unexpected places such as Bar Louie,...