Menu Pairings Program
The Restaurant Menu Pairings Program will again feature creative ways to drive sales and increase guest satisfaction with menu pairings, both at our on-floor pairing stations and by dining at participating restaurants. Chefs will work side by side with sommeliers, mixologists and brew masters to create a frenzy of taste experiences and flavors.
Bleeding Heart's Michelle and Vinny Garcia have teamed up with co-owners Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner from Fifty/50 and Roots next-door neighbor to run this two-story bakery and cafe with a retro diner look and a glassed-in kitchen for watching all the action. It's not just about the organic treats and crazy cakes that the Garcias have become known for. Michelle is also flexing her brunch muscles with dishes such as vegan s'mores pancakes, myriad Benedict variations and decadent doughnut breakfast sandwiches. While the cafe keeps daytime hours during the week, it goes 24 hours on the weekends for all-night noshing. A dozen-plus doughnut options include the lemon and hibiscus Punk Rock Princess and the maple whiskey-soaked, bacon-crusted Death of John Waters.
Beverage Partner: Dirty Blond Cocktails
Located in the heart of ChicagoÕs River North District, steps away from the Financial District and Merchandise Mart, this luxury multi-media destination casts a strong presence where it sits nestled on a busy city street corner. Bull & Bear is fully equipped with state-of-the-art viewing capabilities, a complete lunch, dinner & bar menu, extensive wine and cocktail list and first-of-itÕs kind service amenities, The Personal Table Tap. When the sun goes down, Bull & Bear transforms into a high energy nightspot, catering to all.
Beverage Partner: Vermont Hard Cider
Blending French elegance with the very best in local flavor, Executive Chef Greg Biggers prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner with the freshest ingredients in hand. Working closely with a number of like-minded farmers, Chef Biggers prepares cuisine that changes seasonally and centers around quality and sustainable ingredients. A daily Chef’s Market Selections prix fixe menu is available, featuring three courses of freshly prepared dishes. Guests are also invited to enjoy the restaurant’s five or seven course Degustation Menu, available with wine pairings. Also not to be missed is Café des Architectes’ signature Cheese Ritual and comprehensive wine program. This chic Magnificent Mile neighborhood restaurant offers dramatic interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon, featuring vibrant colors, overstuffed chairs, and dynamic lighting.
Beverage Partner: Rhone Valley Wines - Maison Camille Cayran White Rhone
Upscale casual with imagination and style – just down the street. Located at the corner of Chicago and Wabash, Devon Seafood Grill offers premium aquatic fare, seamless service and an exhilarating atmosphere Devon’s indulgent cuisine emphasizes freshness, creativity and simplicity —themes mirrored in the architecture of our two bars and multiple dining areas. An extensive wine collection for the most discerning palates.
Beverage Partner: Boston Beer - Sam Adams Summer Ale
Foodease is a gourmet food market run by restaurateurs focused on providing the best in food quality, selection and service. Our mission is to serve restaurant quality food prepared to go. We are passionate about featuring local products from our neighbors, serving signature dishes from Lettuce restaurants past and present and popular menu items from Iconic Chicago restaurants.
Beverage Partner: Blue Star International Imports - Carpene-Malvolti Prosecco
With its warm surroundings of hardwood floors, wood-paneled walls, mood lighting and tall leather booths, this urban chophouse and wine bar is the prime destination for power lunches, business meetings, intimate dinners or late night cocktails. Enjoy the finest prime steaks, fresh seafood, pasta, salads and more, all with The Grillroom’s exclusive flair.
Beverage Partner: Echelon Wines - Cabernet Sauvignon
Joe's specializes in sports, live music, and private parties, also featuring five party rooms with a large outdoor patio. Stop in for their drink specials and mouth-watering barbecue.
Beverage Partner: Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine
Primebar is a contemporary ale house featuring cool food and great cocktails. The urban American kitchen is head up by (former Corporate Chef for Rosebud Restaurants) Bradley Alexander and highlights sophisticated, seasonal and sustainable food with an emphasis on local organic products. The menu features a selection of small plates, salads, sandwiches and entrees. Menu stand-outs include appetizers like the beef lollipops and entrees including pork or seared tuna tacos, horseradish crusted salmon, and a NY strip with roasted red pepper butter. Primebar’s menu is complimented by its selection of hand-crafted local brews including 40 beers on tap, as well as local distilled spirits, and an extensive wine list.
Beverage Partner: Russian Standard Vodka
Beer aficionados will pledge their allegiance to Public House, a 10,000 square foot beer-lovers paradise featuring beloved American fare with an upscale twist, unprecedented multimedia capabilities, and mouthwatering libations. With 100 beer selections and featuring Twilight Traffic Control"s signature table tap technology, which includes 12 table tap booths with 2 types of beer and liquor on tap, Public House is home to one of the most extensive—and impressive—beer lists in Chicago. A third table tap will allow guests to pour chilled spirits of choice. Public House will thrill your taste buds with a menu featuring American favorites with tantalizing twists including beer-infused dishes, house made sauces, flights and bites, food and beer pairings, and superb sweet treats and desserts.
Beverage Partner: Tenth & Blake - Leinenkugals Big Eddy
Authentic Quad Cities-style pizza. Painstakingly crafted comfort food made with fresh, local ingredients. House-made sodas and organic sweets for the kids. A Midwest-only beer list and late-night hours for the night owls. So come on in. Bring the kids. It’s a new Chicago tradition, and it’s damn good. Roots was born in the Quad Cities, raised in Chicago. It’s what happened when a bit of hometown nostalgia met an obsession with inventive, made-from-scratch food. Roots is the brainchild of Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner, the duo behind Chicago’s Fifty/50 Restaurant Group.
Beverage Partner: Tanteo Tequila - Watermelon-Jalepeno Margarita
In Hawaii there are two things of equal importance-food and the “aloha” spirit. The blending of these two dynamic principles is how Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine was born. In 1988, James Beard Award winner Roy Yamaguchi opened the first Roy’s in Honolulu, Hawaii. Today there are over 37 locations around the world. Roy’s uses European techniques and Asian cuisine mixed with Hawaiian hospitality to create a fine dining experience unlike any other. Where the “aloha” style of service comes straight from the heart, and where any occasion becomes an unforgettable evening.
Beverage Partner: JINRO
Listed as one of the Best New Restaurants and Best New Dessert of 2011 by Chicago Magazine, Saigon Sisters Restaurant has captured the attention of both the Chicago food media and dining public with its uniquely innovative approach to traditional Vietnamese cuisine. For lunch, Saigon Sisters is a quick and easy casual stop for traditional and updated Vietnamese street food including: popular pho, banh mi, banh bao and spring rolls. For dinner, Saigon Sisters offers full-service dining experience with modern culinary flair to the classic Vietnamese street food recipes of owner Mary Nguyen Aregoni. With "downtown" hip, minimalist interior and walls exhibiting original works by local contemporary artists, the unique Asian dining spot goes one step further by offering an impressive beverage selection including wines, artisanal beers, sake and specialty signature cocktails.
Beverage Partner: TBD
Sullivan’s Steakhouse is a vibrant neighborhood American Steakhouse featuring the finest steaks & seafood, hand shaken martinis, & live music. We offer comfortable fine dining in a lively atmosphere. From the moment you step inside our lounge for drinks, appetizers or dinner, you will feel the energy and excitement provided by their professional team members. Sullivan’s serves the finest Midwestern hand selected steaks aged a minimum of 28 days, simply seasoned and broiled at 1,200 degrees, fresh seafood, a wide selection of cravable appetizers, soups, salads and side dishes including our signature Horseradish Mashed Potatoes. The extensive wine list offers an array of selections from around the world. Whether it’s for business or pleasure, they look forward to quickly becoming your favorite local steakhouse.
Beverage Partner: Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka
A Brazilian-American steakhouse featuring a 70-item salad area, continuous service of sizzling cuts of beef, lamb, pork, chicken and sausage served tableside by a troop of carvers with long sword-like skewers.
Beverage Partner: Palm Bay
ZED451 is an unconventional steakhouse. Let go of everything you used to think about dining and enter a warm and stylish world of artful design and relaxing and indulging abundance. For one price, chefs serve their specially prepared dished table-side while bounty of seasonal soups, composed salads, fresh vegetables prepared in unique ways, cheeses and breads await you at the Harvest Tables. Here, you are catered to by an engaging staff in an environment that evokes a warm landscape of natural elements with a highly stylized edge. Stay as long as you wish and consume what you desire. ZED is dining refined.
Beverage Partner: Crown Imports, LLC - Victoria
III Forks, one of the nation's USDA Prime Steakhouses, is located at the Village Market in Lakeshore East, just north of Millennium Park in beautiful downtown Chicago. This modern restaurant is simply sizzling with style and provides the perfect setting for upscale dining, rooftop lounging, private parties and special events. III Forks is a contemporary evolution of the classic steakhouse featuring USDA Prime Beef, ocean-fresh seafood and locally sourced Midwest fare. Less than half of one percent of all US beef makes the III Forks Prime quality grade. This leads to great steaks that offer abundant marbling, juiciness, tenderness and superior flavor.
Beverage Partner: Trinchero Family Estates - Joel Gott Riesling