CHICAGO — Before we offer our suggestions of where you should eat or drink this weekend, just a reminder: The days of buying Cadbury chocolate in Chicago are numbered.
Here's what should be on your weekend menu:
• Restaurant Week started Friday. While Lincoln Park, Downtown and West Loop restaurants are popular options for it, there are some great places to try out further north.
Browntrout in North Center has four courses for $44, with the option to add a wine-tasting pairing for $20. For the first course, choose among chicken liver pate, seared wild mushrooms or Belgian beer sausage. The second course offers your pick between carrot and squash soup or shaved kale and brussels sprouts. Third course entree options are pumpkin risotto, salmon or Browntrout ramen. Dessert is fallen-chocolate souffle or apple fritters.
Other options on the North Side include Bread & Wine in Irving Park, Bistro Campagne in Lincoln Square and Volo Restaurant Wine Bar in North Center.
Browntrout, 4111 N. Lincoln Ave.
• The North Side is also hopping with beer-related festivities this weekend.
Festibarrel kicks off at noon at Riverview Tavern in Roscoe Village. It features wood and barrel-aged beers. Admission is free but drink tickets are $5, cash only, and are good for any Festibarrel draft.
Riverview Tavern, 1958 W. Roscoe St.
• La Sirena Clandestina in Fulton Market is adding some pop to its cocktails.
The Latin-inspired restaurant is bottling hand-mixed and fizz-infused drinks — two alcoholic and two non-alcoholic. The alcoholic drinks sell for $11 a pop; non-alcoholic ones at $4.50.
La Sirena's first alcoholic bottled offerings include the Ancho-Cola, featuring an Ancho chili liqueur, Italian vermouth, lemon, orange bitters and Chinotto — the Italian fruit that looks like an orange, but takes on a sour, bitter taste. Chinotto is known for giving the Italian liqueur Campari it's signature taste.
The restaurant's namesake bottled cocktail, La Serena 1548, featuring a Chilean Pisco — a distilled South American wine — rhubarb amaro, Italian apéritif, lemon, agave and grapefruit zest. The year 1548 refers to the first documented wine plantation in modern day Chile a nod to the drink's Pisco base.
The non-alcoholic offerings include Aguas Frescas, with Granny Smith apple, hibiscus, lemongrass and lime; and Ginger Brew, featuring fresh juiced ginger and lemon cordial.
La Sirena Clandestina, 954 W. Fulton Market
• Lastly, we suggest the Loop's newest burger joint, Good Stuff Eatery, an import from Washington, D.C. that's the brainchild of former "Top Chef" contestant Spike Mendelsohn.
With so many upscale burger concepts entering Chicago, Mendelsohn said he hoped to distinguish Good Stuff Eatery with locally-sourced ingredients, including Illinois cattle and Wisconsin cheese.
The restaurant also has gourmet milkshakes and a "mayo bar" with Sriracha and Chipotle-infused flavors.
The burgers range in price from $6.50 to $8.50. Guests can add a fry and soda for another $4.45, or $6.45 for fries and a shake.
Good Stuff Eatery, 22 S. Wabash Ave.
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