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October 22, 2012|By Jon Yates, Chicago Tribune reporter
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All About the BASS! Saturday at 8fifty8 Chicago ft. DJ JEM ... | Club 858 Chicago Dress CodePeter McGuire, left, and Michael LaVitola (drinking water) adore the angle while dining at Puck's at the Midway Club restaurant at the Gleacher Center. (Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune)
Who eats: Mostly businesspeople
Why eat: Moderately priced accomplished dining with an amazing view
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MEMORIAL WEEKEND ALL WHITE SUNDAY PARTY Tickets, Sun, May 28, 2017 ... | Club 858 Chicago Dress CodeAmbience: This hidden gem, tucked at the end of a continued alley on the fifth attic of the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center, has all the accouterment of flush dining — white tablecloths, servers dressed in atramentous and wafting classical music. But the restaurant, overseen by Wolfgang Puck, never feels stuffy, exuding a activity that's academic and relaxed. With alone a dozen tables, it is an affectionate space. What it lacks in size, it added than makes up for in view. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow spectacular, 180-degree sightlines of the city, Lake Michigan and the Chicago River. It's absolutely absolutely stunning.
Dress code: No academic dress code, but anybody we saw was in business attire.
Noise factor: There's a somewhat hushed feel to the place, as if you're bistro in a admirable dining hall.
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Cellphone reception/Wi-Fi: Full corpuscle coverage, admitting application your buzz in the dining breadth is prohibited.
Reservations: A acceptable idea
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Reliable options: According to our hostess, the cafeteria card rotates with the season, alteration every two months or so. A new card began in October, she said, admitting several dishes are offered year-round. We started with chorizo croquettes ($6), which accustomed accumulated in a mini-pyramid on a bowl drizzled with saffron aioli. They were brittle on the outside, adhesive on the central and absolutely good. Alike bigger was the broiled blah aliment pudding ($6), an abundantly clammy blah aliment block served in a basin of buttery avocado booze and topped with two altogether acclimatized shrimp. The Midway burger ($9) was huge, slathered in sauteed onions and age-old cheddar cheese and accompanied by a accumulation of appetizing (if somewhat limp) thin-cut fries. The broiled turkey sandwich ($9) accumulated turkey, a allotment of bacon, arugula and a band of cranberry booze — array of Thanksgiving banquet on bread. The craven and dumplings ($14) were archetypal abundance aliment with light, melt-in-your-mouth ricotta-spinach dumplings. It was presented added like a soup than an entree, so if you're famished, go for the burger. It was so big, I couldn't accomplishment mine.
Expect to pay: $15-$20 per person
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