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City Life, Stay at Home Apr 28, 2020
The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: day 39

What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, COVID-19, coronavirus, soccer, Caitlin Murray, Netflix, The Magicians, The English Game, Queen, WOXY, macaroni and cheese, cocktails, bourbon, Jo Snow, Quincy Street Distillery, cats

Blogs, Bleader Apr 2, 2015
Once you've made creme de cacao, what do you do with it?

Creme de cacao cocktails: Rediscovering the Alexander
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, creme de cacao, Alexander, gin Alexander, Brandy Alexander, Alexander II, bourbon, Mixellany

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2014
One Sip: Watermelon cocktails and the Red Lady

The Red Lady cocktail, with watermelon, basil, and pisco, smells like summer.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, watermelon, cocktails, pisco, tequila, bourbon, chile, cayenne, Red Lady, In-Sandiary, Kentucky Devil

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 4/24: Demetri Martin, American Whiskey Affair, and Princess Nokia

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 24
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Berlin, night club, Total Therapy, Princess Nokia, Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj, riot grrrl, American Whiskey Affair, whiskey, bourbon, Templeton Rye, Woodford Reserve, Old Forester, Untitled, Demetri Martin, comedy, Lincoln Hall

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Apr 4, 2014
Bottlefork: A fine chef meets the Dec

Kevin Hickey, formerly of Allium, joins forces with Rockit Ranch.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Bottlefork Bar & Kitchen, River North, Kevin Hickey, Billy Dec, food writers, restaurant critics, Rockit Ranch Productions, Dragon Ranch, Allium, Rockit Burger Bar, burgers, Wrigleyville, burgers, menus, snacks, cocktails, whiskey, rum, bourbon, beer, salt, pasta, chicken, chicken meatballs, quail eggs, bratwurst, rabbit, cornmeal, poutine, potatoes, kale, squash, pork, beef, lamb, chorizo, ham, po'boy, foie gras, oysters, lobster, Bottlefork, octopus, potato salad, beans, brussels sprouts

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2014
Video
Two Brothers' Midwestern Death Metal, available only at the brewery's upcoming Cabin Fever party

Two Brothers bottles a barrel-aged imperial stout that might as well have been custom made for Beer and Metal.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Two Brothers, Two Brothers Brewing, Stomping Grounds Espresso, Buffalo Trace, bourbon, Midwestern Death Metal, Cabin Fever, Cianide, Gods of Death, Forsaken Doom, Death Strike, Paul Speckmann, Pay to Die, Bones, Good Die Young, Usurper, Broken Hope, Omen of Disease, Swamped in Gore, Master, The New Elite, the Chasm, Procession to the Infraworld, Morgue, Eroded Thoughts, Video

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 10, 2014
Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice

The newest restaurant from Lettuce Entertain You is among the empire's most atmospherically successful.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Summer House Santa Monica, Lincoln Park, Lettuce Entertain You, LEY, artifice, atmosphere, M Street Kitchen, design, decor, burgers, In-N-Out Burger, restraint, Jeff Mahin, Stella Barra Pizzeria, Do-Rite Donuts, vegetables, salads, seafood, steak, pasta, sandwiches, California regional dishes, fish tacos, mahi mahi, corn salsa, guacamole, prices, watermelon, skate wing, texture, soba noodles, dashi, bison, meat, ravioli, arugula, pesto, cauliflower, ribs, wine, California wines, zinfandel, pinot gris, bourbon, tequila, pisco, dessert

Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2013
Video
Nomad Brewery Batch #1: Barrel aged, brown, and bodacious

The first beer from this new offshoot of the Lush/Twisted Spoke empire spent more than two years in Stitzel-Weller bourbon barrels.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Nomad Brewery, Nomad Brewing Company, Nomad, Batch #1, Twisted Spoke, Lush Wine and Spirits, Mitch Einhorn, Stitzel-Weller, bourbon, barrel aging, imperial brown ale, Pappy Van Winkle, Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, Willett, De Proef, Big Shoulders, Against the Grain, New Belgium, Guys Drinking Beer, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Vader, Video

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Sep 20, 2013
Recommended
Dillman's is Brendan Sodikoff's blintz-krieg

The restaurateur brings a haute (and fabulous) "deli-style American brasserie" to River North.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Brendan Sodikoff, bologna, pastrami, corned beef, foie gras, sandwiches, delis, delicatessens, Paul Kahan, restauranteurs, cured meat, meat, schmaltz, creme fraiche, cheese, bone marrow, salads, fish, avocado, River North, rye whiskey, cocktails, whiskey, bitters, Fernet, bourbon, grapefruit, honey, gin, pickle backs, matzo ball soup, herring, bread, chicken liver, Caesar salad, potato chips, cheese, smoked meat, eggs, potato salad, potato pancakes, Reuben, sauerkraut, pickles, entrees, French dip, chicken potpie, veal schnitzel, cheese dumplings, short rib borscht, toast, sandwiches, Dillman's, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2013
Video
In his house at Goose Island Clybourn dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

Today Goose Island releases an imperial oatmeal stout aged in 18-year Elijah Craig bourbon barrels.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Goose Island, Clybourn, Cthulhu, imperial oatmeal stout, Elijah Craig, bourbon, barrel, 25th anniversary, Silver Jubilee, R'lyeh, Great Old Ones, H.P. Lovecraft, Central Waters, Bourbon County Brand Stout, Al Azif, Metallica, Ride the Lightning, Call of Ktulu, Visions of R'lyeh, Lisa Carlson, Nick Barron, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2013
12 O'Clock Track: The sneering garage punk of Video on "I Am the Sum"

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "I Am the Sum," from Video's 2011 LP, Leather Leather.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Video, Denton, HoZac Blackout, K-Holes, bourbon, Tyvek, Texas

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2013
More barbecue for the dudes: Sweet Baby Ray's comes to Wrigleyville

The suburban chain joins Wrigley BBQ and Milt's Barbecue for the Perplexed in competing for the year-round crowd.
- By Stefanie Wright
- Tags: Food & Drink, BBQ, bourbon, Wrigleyville, sauces, chain restaurants, appetizers

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2013
A bill to label genetically modified foods, and other food news bites

Weak bourbon, strong bacon, and more
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Grace, Curtis Duffy, Kevin Pang, GMO, baconfest, bacon, Maker's Mark, bourbon, Charlie Trotter's, Check, Please!

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 28, 2013
The business is barbecue at Bub City

A southern-themed River North joint makes a loud, twangy case for itself.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, bourbon, Billy Dec, Nashville, prime-time tv, whiskey, women's bathrooms, southern-themed restaurants, Lettuce Entertain You, Doug Psaltis, RPM Italian, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, River North, Bub City

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2012
One Sip: Journeyman Distillery's Featherbone Bourbon

The Three Oaks, Michigan, distillery just launched its first bourbon
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Sip, Booze, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Journeyman Distillery, Featherbone Bourbon, Bill Welter, Craft Spirit Week, INdependent Spirits Expo, E.K. Warren, Ravenswood Rye, whiskey, bourbon

Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2012
Beer and Metal: Bourbon Barrel Aged La Petite Mort by Central Waters and Local Option

A German-style dark wheat beer brewed with Belgian yeast and aged in Heaven Hill barrels
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Food Chain, Music, Food & Drink, La Petite Mort, Central Waters, Central Waters Brewing Company, Local Option, Bierwerker, Heaven Hill, bourbon, beer, weizenbock, dunkelweizen, Alexi Front, Noah Hopkins, Tony Russomanno, Jon Scordato, Anello Mollica, heron, metal

Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Tue 8/28

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Publican Quality Meats, Burgers Beer and Bourbon, beer, bourbon, burgers, Outside World, Luca Cimarusti, Guided by Voices, Husker Du, Golden Birthday, Empty Bottle, Get Up and Go!, Rogers Park

Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2012
What's the incentive, Kickstarter?

If the incentives are right (and a little outlandish), Kickstarter is worth the few bucks—just ask Murder by Death's fans
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Seriously?, $$$, Music, Kickstarter, Murder by Death, Amanda Palmer, Pipeworks Brewing, Five Iron Frenzy, Cedar Point, bourbon, pledge, donate, Bitter Drink Bitter Moon, Christian ska, pizza

Food & Drink, Cocktail Challenge Jul 17, 2012
Slideshow
Cocktail Challenge: shrimp paste

Nahm Kim of Sunda puts an Asian twist on the manhattan
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Nahm Kim, Manny Sofios, Gilt Bar, shrimp paste, bourbon, Allison Hagio, Paramount Room, Frangelico, Sunda, cocktail challenge, Slideshow

Best of Chicago, Introduction Jun 20, 2012
Best of Chicago 2012

An exhaustive exploration of our city and all its eccentricities
- Tags: Introduction, "Moneyworth", Best of Chicago 2012, bourbon, cannabis, deadlines, exploration, John Herndon, marijuana, Meaghan Garvey, pot decriminalization, Tortoise

Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2012
One Sip: cocktails with ginger syrup

Ginger syrup and its many uses (mostly cocktails)
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Cooking, One Sip, Food Chain, Food & Drink, ginger syrup, cachaca, caipirinha, lemon, lime, mint, brandy, Sleepyhead, orange, whiskey smash, bourbon, Sable

Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2012
Derrick Rose, our new neighbor

Derrick Rose, the Reader's new neighbor
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Shameless SEO, Sports, Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose, Trump Tower, Chicago Reader, bourbon

News & Politics, Feature Feb 9, 2012
Dear Elsa

A letter to first loves, cigarettes, and Chicago
- By Rose Tully
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day, cigarettes, coffee, bourbon, love, first love, radical queer, Longman & Eagle

Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2011
Beyond the bitters: last night's "Manhattan Experience"

The results of last night's "Manhattan Experience," a cocktail mix-off.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Woodford Reserve, Quay, bourbon, craft cocktails, manhattans, Shawn Hazen, Lauren Viera, Drew Goss, West Town Tavern, Tim Williams, Pour Souls, Kris von Dopek, Duchamp, Johnny Avens, Roof, Orlando De Leon, the Underground

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Madison's Nostrano and Underground Food Collective, Key Ingredient bourbon, recent openings, alfresco dining, and more

In this week's Food & Drink: Madison's Nostrano and Underground Food Collective, Key Ingredient bourbon, recent openings, alfresco dining, and more
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Madison, Nostrano, Tim Dahl, Elizabeth Dahl, Underground Food Collective, Underground Kitchen, Underground Meats, charcuterie, Key Ingredient, Cleetus Friedman, City Provisions, bourbon, Bite Cafe, the Original Five BBQ, Uptown Pie Company, alfresco dining, Chicago Craft Beer Week

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