This New Brunch Place Defies Notions of Time and Space

This New Brunch Place Defies Notions of Time and Space
So That’s Nice. But Also, There’s a Sausage Battle Royale.
By Sam Eichner

Go, Speed Weekend, go.

Wednesday

FROM PERKS

            Look at All These Autographed NFL Helmets

These are a bunch of football helmets autographed by great players like Tom Brady, Odell Beckham Jr., Reggie
White and the Mannings. And this is us telling you that they could be sitting in your living room one game
day soon. It’s also us name-dropping.

EAR TO THE GROUND

            This May Yield Some Very Fine Date Nights

Ear Taxi is a six-day contemporary classical music festival, during which you can take a date to…
—A classical composition from indie-rock band Tortoise.
—A superstar soprano’s concert of songs inspired by poet Carl Sandburg.
—An electronic fable about solitude.
Scratch that last one.

Thursday

AMERICAN BEAUTY

            All Brunch, All the Time

To hell with the weekend. You want brunch now. And you’re going to get it at Hutch American Café, the new
all-day, every-day bruncheteria in River North that’ll sate your cravings for fried chicken and biscuits,
tenderloin benedicts and Bloody Marys whenever they may arise. Fair.

Friday

WILLOW AND BEHOLD

            Your New Happy Place in Lincoln Park

Willow Room is a swanky new lounge near Steppenwolf where you can enjoy a glass of wine and eat duck
prosciutto and fine Wisconsin cheeses. Maybe you’ll go before a show. Maybe you’ll go after a show.
Maybe you’ll go on a random Tuesday. Random Tuesdays work, too.

Saturday

WESTWORLD

            “Bye, Andersonville. Hi, West Loop.” —⁠Notre

Bad news: Notre’s Andersonville shop is temporarily closed. Good news:
They’ve got a spartan new West Loop outpost with a gallery of shoes (read: Horween leather boots) and
other fall-forward items like garment-dyed bombers and A.P.C. denim. Not news: Your
attitude toward fall-forward items.

Sunday

ENCASED YOU MISSED IT

            Only One Sausage Can Be King

This Sunday, the Polish-Korean sausage pros at Kimski/Maria’s are hosting a sausage battle royale. Three
sausages (from Publican Quality Meats, Haymarket and Kimski) will vie for your vote. There’ll also be a
sausage-eating contest and a relay race with a sausage baton. As if there weren’t enough sausage involved
already.

Sam Eichner likes literature, reality television and his twin cats equally. He has consistently been told he needs a shave since he started growing facial hair.

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