Primehouse Chicago Dress Code
August 13, 2012|By Jon Yates, Chicago Tribune reporter
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John Flippen and Jeff Lex assignment on an appetizer at David Burke’s Primehouse, area a afresh revamped card is advised for a business lunch. The restaurant offers a “Caesarista,” who makes your Caesar bloom tableside. (Joel Wintermantle, Chicago Tribune)
Who eats: Businesspeople, tourists
Why eat: Great aliment at reasonable prices
Ambience: Dark and comfortable, the restaurant (on the arena attic of the James Hotel) is bathed in browns, with tan-colored tablecloths, able copse accents and dimmed chandeliers. Booths in the aback feel abandoned and cozy, and tables up advanced abreast the windows are brighter.
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Dress code: Plenty of diners are in business attire, but others assume altogether at home in shorts and a T-shirt with a attache in tow, acceptable from the hotel.
Noise factor: Light addition music played overhead, but audition your table mates accepted no problem.
Overheard: "This has been absolutely accessible to me. It's like I'm advancing in from addition world."
Service: Our delay agents was actual accommodating. Our server went out of his way to accomplish abiding we were blessed — on several occasions alms to acting items on the card to clothier a bowl to what we wanted. He seemed to absolutely affliction whether we were adequate the meal.
["582"]Cellphone reception/Wi-Fi: Full corpuscle advantage and Wi-Fi
Reservations: Accepted
Menu: Steaks, sandwiches, salads
Reliable options: The afresh revamped cafeteria card is advised for a business lunch. We started with a Caesar bloom ($14) able tableside by a "Caesarista," from a rolling alertness table, abundant like the tableside guacamole offered by some Mexican restaurants. You can add about a dozen options, from craven ($6) to butter-poached lobster ($14) to seared foie gras ($17). We went with the backtalk block croutons ($5) and white anchovies ($3).
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The bloom was agitating — a nice antithesis of flavors with buttery bathrobe (scooped from hollowed-out eggshells), a clasp of auto and a chaw of alkali — and fun. For my capital course, I approved the weekday cafeteria special, alleged the shakenSteak ($20.12), one of the best cafeteria ethics in town. It comes with a vodka or gin martini (our server offered soda or coffee as a added abstaining lunchtime alternative), an appetizer, one of three entrees and a ancillary dish. I went with the amazon and broiled red pepper soup, which was blubbery and delivered a adumbration of spice.
For my entree, I chose the Vegas Strip Steak, which the card said chef Rick Gresh helped develop. It was a nice, large, angular cut of meat — able-bodied acclimatized and altogether grilled. The truffle Asiago chips were brittle and meaty. We additionally approved the pan-roasted Jail Island apricot ($17), which accustomed aloft spears of breakable asparagus, onions and morels.
The angle was fresh, aged and accurately cooked. The candied pea and ricotta cheese ravioli ($15) numbered about a dozen ravioli in a thick, buttery booze of artichokes, onions and truffled pecorino. It was hearty, but a tad bland.
Expect to pay: $20-$30 per person
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Contacts: 312-660-6000; davidburkesprimehouse.com
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