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Restaurant News: RM Champagne Salon To Open, Epic Burger Adds Two Locations, Sopranos Dinner Tonight

By Amy Cavanaugh in Food on Dec 4, 2011 7:30PM

2011_12_04_champagne.jpg \• RM Champagne Salon, a bubbly-focused bar, will be opening in the West Loop in February. The guys behind Old Town Social and Nellcôte have teamed up with New York sommelier Jason Wagner to offer a menu of accessible, estate-grown champagnes. The 1,500 square foot space, at 116 N. Green Street, will also offer a menu of cheese, sandwiches, petit fours and pastries.

Epic Burger is opening two more locations this month, on Dec. 12 at 227 E. Ontario Street and Dec. 19 at 40 E. Pearson Street. Both will serve a menu of beef and turkey burgers, fries, shakes, and smoothies. The Pearson location will also serve breakfast from 7-11 a.m., so head in for an egg sandwich, pastries, and Intelligentsia coffee.

• Need something to do post-Bears game today? Sopranos Restaurant is hosting a Sopranos wine dinner tonight from 6-9 p.m. Dinner and drinks are included in the $75 ticket price and Sopranos stars Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy), Federico Castelluccio (Furio Giunta), and Tony Darrow (Larry Boy Barese) will be in attendance. Call 773-871-0990 for reservations.