This Weekend, You Go Underground

This Weekend, You Go Underground

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This Weekend, You Go Underground
To a Password-Protected Bar and a Subterranean Christmas Party That Just Made the Naughty List
By Sam Eichner

Wednesday

FROM PERKS

            Other Jams Want to Be These Jams

There are two women in Brooklyn making jams in small batches. Jams like blueberry bourbon, sugar-coated banana and rum, and
pumpkin chai. And if you’re a living, breathing human, you’ll hear that and be excited that we have an
exclusive bundle of five such jams just for you. Your toast thanks you in advance.

HOLIDAY SPIRITS

            Have a Very Tiki Christmas

Just think of Sippin’ Santa’s Surf Shack as the same old Lost Lake, except with thousands of twinkling
lights, a festive playlist and special holiday-forward tiki drinks created by Paul McGee and his friends
from New Orleans’s Latitude 29 and NYC’s Boilermaker. Nice thought, isn’t it…

Thursday

WHAT LIES BENEATH

            Password-Protected Truffle Fries

Sure, the whole “speakeasy” thing is pretty played out. But try convincing yourself that Meet &
Whiskey, a password-protected bar underneath Randolph Row BBQ stalwart Porkchop—where you can eat truffle
fries and drink barrel-aged whiskey drinks while lounging on antique furniture—sounds un-fun. (It’s okay
if you don’t want to.)

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

            Your Out-of-Town Guests Stay Here Now

A word of advice for those about to host out-of-towners: the Robey and the Hollander now exist at the six
corners in Wicker Park. The former’s a boutique hotel with a fancy French-American café; the latter’s a
social-media-forward hostel. And if you want to know more, here you go.

Friday

DAY AND NIGHT

            A Timeline of Two Very Important New Menus

At happy hour: Head to GT Fish & Oyster for their new four-course oyster tasting menu
with shooters, sliders and poke spoons.
After midnight: Swing by Mott St for their new late-night menu with Asian-inspired hot dogs
and ramen cotton candy. Feel free to read the words “ramen cotton candy” again.

Saturday

DREAMING OF A DARK CHRISTMAS

            This Christmas Party Just Made the Naughty List

On Saturday, you’re attending a rather iniquitous “Dark Christmas” party at SPiN, where leather-clad
Mrs. Clauses dance, evil elves play with fire and snow queens double as trapeze artists. Needless to say,
your office Christmas party has a lot to live up to this year.

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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