{"id":4358,"date":"2019-01-26T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evaho.com\/blog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2019-01-26T17:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:58:57","slug":"chicago-restaurant-week-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evaho.com\/blog\/chicago-restaurant-week-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Off Chicago Restaurant Week 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The popular eating event in town, Chicago Restaurant Week, has just kicked off this year’s festivities at the Field Museum on January 24 with a First Bites Bash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the temperature was frigid outside, thousands of guests braved the polar vortex to gather inside to wine and dine with Chicago’s finest restaurants. From Asian Bao-Mee (like Vietnamese b\u00e1nh m\u00ec but with Chinese style Bao instead of a French style baguette, get it?) <\/em>with alligator sausage, to foie gras pecan roll, the First Bites Bash was the perfect event to sample cuisines from dozens of Chicago restaurants. In additional to beer and wine, I was also surprised to see a table with Japanese sake tasting. I was first introduced to sake about three years ago and I have to say I now love sake more than I love wine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few highlights of this year’s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n