{"id":4455,"date":"2017-01-27T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2017-02-09T22:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T04:39:30","slug":"chicago-restaurant-week-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Restaurant Week 2017: It&#8217;s back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the first in a series of posts about Chicago Restaurant Week 2017, held January 27\u2013February 9. <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/restaurant-week-2\/\" title=\"Restaurant Week\">Browse all past Restaurant Week coverage<\/a> from 2013-17.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4484\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017\/avecrestaurantweek\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4484\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avecrestaurantweek.jpg\" alt=\"Avec Restaurant Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4484\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avecrestaurantweek.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avecrestaurantweek-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avecrestaurantweek-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avec, one of my 2017 Restaurant Week destinations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to participate in Chicago Restaurant Week last year (I was still living in Dublin), so I wasn&#8217;t sure how involved I&#8217;d be in 2017 after a year off. But I looked through the menus, started to plan a few meals \u2013 using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/restaurant-week-2013-the-planning-ritual\/\">my trusted spreadsheet<\/a>, as always \u2013 and before I knew it, I was up to nine reservations. Oops. So much for taking it easy!<\/p>\n<p>But, as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/chicago-restaurant-week-2015-preview\/\">mentioned in the past<\/a>, it&#8217;s really about the people. Sharing food with the people I love is one of the greatest joys of my life, so I&#8217;m grateful for an annual excuse to do a lot of that in a short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to sharing highlights from this year&#8217;s meals!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017 Reservations:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-ema\/\">Ema<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-brunch-at-bar-siena\/\">Bar Siena<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-avec\/\">Avec<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-table-donkey-stick\/\">Table, Donkey &#038; Stick<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/05\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-de-quay\/\">de Quay<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-brunch-at-appellation\/\">Appellation<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-gene-georgetti\/\">Gene &#038; Georgetti<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-zed451\/\">ZED451<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/chicago-restaurant-week-2017-dinner-at-celeste\/\">Celeste<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first in a series of posts about Chicago Restaurant Week 2017, held January 27\u2013February 9. 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I wasn&#8217;t able to participate in Chicago Restaurant Week last year (I was still living in Dublin), so I wasn&#8217;t sure how involved I&#8217;d be in 2017 after a [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[297,2078,968,1685],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-week-2","tag-chicago-restaurant-week","tag-crw2017","tag-restaurant-week","tag-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}