FROM PERKS
Sometimes you can just sit back and let the leather jacket do the talking for you. This is one of those times. Perks has a selection of ink-black hides courtesy of the Face New York, who specialize in handsome badassery. And in this case, that selection is up to 26% off. You’ve always been the strong, silent, saving type.
HOLY CITY
There are several reasons for you to frequent Holy Taco, a casual new place filled with chef Daniel Espinoza’s al pastor tacos and sincronizadas, which are basically carne-asada-filled cousins of the quesadilla. Though “new tacos in Lincoln Park” would probably suffice.
DOUG LIFE
Do you prefer your Hot Doug’s creations as pizza or popcorn? What a question. What a world. Yet here we are with the return of Hot Doug’s Duck Fat Delight popcorn at Berco’s and the Doug Sohn–created jerk-sausage-and-bacon pizza hitting the menu at Piece. Godspeed.
ALL THE WAY UP
Hidden entrance: check. Live music: yes. Named after history’s most infamous drug lord: sure, fine. All signs point to Esco Bar, the new upstairs cocktail bar at Ronero. It’s a Latin-tinged affair complete with pisco-filled copper swans, you and your date. The three of you should get along just fine.
STOCK PARTY
Winter came, saw, conquered and… sort of just kept on doing those things. Enter this Stock Mfg. warehouse sale with up to 90% off things like flannels, jackets, chinos and other fine examples of Chicago-made dapperness. RIP, last year’s s’mores pants.
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
For the Lovers: Roller-skate around the vintage gymnasium of Chicago Athletic Association
Hotel while listening to classic slow jams.
For the Haters: Gently pelt the opponent of your choice with 40 mm celluloid balls at
AceBounce’s Anti-Valentine’s party while partaking in a two-hour open bar and listening to anti-love
anthems.
Choose wisely.
Sarah Freeman is often accused of hiding secrets in her hair. She can make any cocktail, as long as that cocktail is a rye Old Fashioned, and has never met a saison she didn’t like.
