FROM PERKS
It’s hard to find good gloves. Especially handcrafted, touchscreen-friendly ones made from things like lamb leather and cashmere. Especially-especially these ones from Quill & Tine, artisan crafters of rather stunning, rather phone-friendly gloves that you’ll need to get you through winter. Which is too bad (for anyone not with Perks).
BOWL FOOD
For some, this weekend will be an occasion to watch a game. For others, it will be an occasion to have hearth-baked lasagna and maple-poached salmon sent to their doors from Roister’s new delivery service (which is closed on Sunday, so order ahead). Or to indulge in Bang Bang’s Super Pie loaded with potato chips and puppy chow peanuts. Food: check.
WORK OF MART
There are grocery stores, and then there are Korean superstores. The latter is filled with endless arrays of international delicacies, plus kiosks serving Hawaiian-style katsu and poke bowls. It goes by the name of H Mart, of course, and there’s finally one in Chicago-proper. So… hope you like Korean superstores.
CHAMPAGNE ROOM
This party has Champagne gummy bears. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s elaborate on the Champagne Powder party at Joy District. It’s an Après-ski soirée that will be filled with ice luges, shot skis and also some less shitshow-y vessels. And we mentioned the gratis Champagne gummy bears, right? Good.
TWO’S COMPANY
The Ruin Daily’s buffalo cauliflower sandwich is about to meet Hopewell’s Thank Me Later IPA. That match made in heaven/Logan Square will be available for one day only when the sandwich shop pops up inside the taproom. There’s your Saturday, basically.
DOG DAYS
Super Bowl Sunday is almost here, which means one thing: puppies. Watch Chicago’s very own Stripe compete in the Puppy Bowl while you drink drinks at Park & Field and raise money for his adoption center. Oh, and they’ll also have a bottomless buffalo chicken nugget-filled buffet if you’d rather watch some actual football.
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.
