{"id":3503,"date":"2015-01-30T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:49:06","slug":"chicago-restaurant-week-2015-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: It&#8217;s here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If it&#8217;s your first time visiting my blog, welcome! This is the first in a series of posts about Chicago Restaurant Week 2015, held January 30\u2013February 12. Check out recaps from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/recap-chicago-restaurant-week-2014\/\" title=\"Recap: Chicago Restaurant Week 2014\">2014<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2013\/02\/13\/recap-restaurant-week-2013\/\" title=\"2013 Restaurant Week recap\">2013<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/restaurant-week-2\/\" title=\"Restaurant Week\">browse all Restaurant Week coverage<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3505\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/homesteadontheroofdessert.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/homesteadontheroofdessert.jpeg\" alt=\"Restaurant Week dessert, Homestead on the Roof\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/homesteadontheroofdessert.jpeg 598w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/homesteadontheroofdessert-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/homesteadontheroofdessert-300x299.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Towering dessert from Homestead on the Roof, Restaurant Week 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to believe that this is already my fourth year celebrating Restaurant Week in Chicago (and my third year blogging about it). I&#8217;m going bigger than ever, eager to sample as much fantastic food as possible across nine total reservations. My picks span a range of cuisines, from upscale Peruvian to classic Louisiana Mardi Gras fare (I&#8217;m totally ordering the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.simpleviewcrm.com\/docs\/amenities\/Restaurant%20Week%20201516.pdf\" title=\"Big Jones Restaurant Week menu\">gator<\/a>). And like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/restaurant-week-2014-ada-street\/\" title=\"Restaurant Week 2014: Ada Street\">last year<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be checking out Ada Street&#8217;s themed menu: all the dishes are inspired by the &#8220;last meal&#8221; requests of famous criminals. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.simpleviewcrm.com\/docs\/amenities\/RW%20Website%20Version%2021.pdf\" title=\"Ada Street Restaurant Week 2015\">read through the choices<\/a>, and then tell me you aren&#8217;t intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m also excited about my dining companions, which include two dozen different people this year. I&#8217;m kicking things off tomorrow morning with my first-ever Restaurant Week <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.simpleviewcrm.com\/docs\/amenities\/REST%20WEEK%202015.pdf\" title=\"Knife &#038; Tine Restaurant Week menu\">brunch<\/a> at Lincoln Park&#8217;s Knife &#038; Tine. Check back in the coming days to hear how my nine meals went!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 Reservations:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-brunch-at-knife-tine\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Brunch at Knife &#038; Tine\">Knife &#038; Tine<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-last-meals-dinner-at-ada-street\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: \u201cLast Meals\u201d Dinner at Ada Street\">Ada Street<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/06\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-michael-jordans-steak-house\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at Michael Jordan\u2019s Steak House\">Michael Jordan&#8217;s Steak House<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/07\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-coppervine\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at Coppervine\">Coppervine<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-the-bedford\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at The Bedford\">The Bedford<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-big-jones\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at Big Jones\">Big Jones<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-fig-olive\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at Fig &#038; Olive\">Fig &#038; Olive<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-tanta\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at Tanta\">Tanta<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-dinner-at-two-chicago\/\" title=\"Chicago Restaurant Week 2015: Dinner at TWO\">TWO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s your first time visiting my blog, welcome! This is the first in a series of posts about Chicago Restaurant Week 2015, held January 30\u2013February 12. Check out recaps from 2014 and 2013, or browse all Restaurant Week coverage. It&#8217;s hard for me to believe that this is already my fourth year celebrating Restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1676,32,1681,282,297,1679,1675,1682,603,1678,1684,756,1677,968,1124,1680,1685,1683],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-week-2","tag-2015-preview","tag-ada-street","tag-big-jones","tag-chicago-dining","tag-chicago-restaurant-week","tag-coppervine","tag-crw","tag-fig-olive","tag-homestead-on-the-roof","tag-knife-tine","tag-last-meals","tag-michael-jordans-steak-house","tag-prix-fixe-menus","tag-restaurant-week","tag-tanta","tag-the-bedford","tag-traditions","tag-two-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}