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12/27/10
Perfect ’10
Everything That Was Important in 2010
Next year, Chicago will be a very different place. Titans shall rest. Regimes will change. Power centers will shift and old bosses will be swept aside. But enough about Oprah leaving. Let’s just reflect on a few of the high points from this year.
STEAKS MADE A COMEBACK
Chicago Cut Steakhouse
This was a really good year if you like steak. (Well, this is Chicago. It’s always a good year if you like
steak.) But the old-fashioned steakhouse got a high-tech makeover with Chicago Cut’s iPad wine list,
perfect for when you’re looking for perfect cab to pair with “Bed Intruder Song.”
- 411:
- Chicago Cut Steakhouse, 300 N LaSalle St, (at the River), 312-329-1800
GASTROPUBS WANTED TO BED YOU
Longman & Eagle
There was the wild boar sloppy joe. Those frog legs in buffalo-wing sauce. And so, so much whiskey. It was
enough for those Michelin people, but you wanted more:
a place to sleep decked out with contemporary art. Thanks to Longman, now you can nest.
- 411:
- Longman & Eagle, 2657 N Kedzie Ave (at Schubert), 773-276-7110
OLD TOWN FELT NEW AGAIN
Benchmark
Street-fair season got a serious extension this year with one simple formula: take a bar, remove roof, add
beer. Yes, the longest lines were on Wells Street this summer, but when the roof magically moved back in
place... the party stayed. Take a lesson, Metrodome.
- 411:
- Benchmark, 1510 N Wells St (between North and Schiller), 312-649-9640
EVERYONE QUIVERED
Archery Bow Range Chicago
We’re always up for a surprise. And for shooting an apple off someone’s head. So it was nice that we
found this new archery range, which promises to do for bows and arrows what the bowling alley did for ugly
shoes.
- 411:
- Archery Bow Range Chicago, 1757 N Kimball Ave, 630-781-4933
CATS PROWLED
The National Cougar Convention
We didn’t get the Olympics, but we did get this: the National Cougar Convention, when a darkened ballroom
near the airport became pouncing grounds for hundreds of mature women and their less-mature admirers.
Suppliers of leopard-print caftans have yet to recover.
GOATS ROARED
Girl & The Goat
Top Chef sweetheart Stephanie Izard finally got her wood-fired oven stoked and brought the city to
its knees with a heretofore undiscovered passion for smoked goat pizza, rolled-up pig’s faces and stout
ice cream floats. Though, honestly, you didn’t really need the ice cream.
- 411:
- Girl & The Goat, 809 W Randolph St, (between Halsted and Green), 312-492-6262
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