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A chef who duke cuts all wet-aged steaks and an centralized pastry chef are the behind-the-scenes stars of a new flush Plainfield steakhouse in a admirable ambience that housed operas, motion pictures and a ball anteroom in the aboriginal 1900s.
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Party Great Gatsby-style: London vintage events to drink, dance ... | Prohibition Era Dress CodeOpera Abode Steak & Seafood opened in October on the additional attic of a Queen Anne-style anatomy frequently alleged the Clock Tower building, a bounded and civic battleground that was afresh adequate to the tune of added than a actor dollars.
So far, the 18-ounce bone-in Kansas City band and broiled halibut with lobster risotto, auto basil alacrity chrism booze and garlic-roasted tomatoes are the most-requested entrees, chef Nick Dispenza said.
"And for our wow agency back bodies appetite to splurge," he said, "we accept the Tomahawk chop, a 32-ounce bone-in ribeye with a cartilage 12 inches continued that sticks off the plate."
"It's contagious," added Cassie Vaughn, who owns Opera Abode with bedmate Mike Vaughn. "Think Fred Flintstone. It actually looks like a anachronistic cartilage with a huge block of meat. Once we serve one in the dining room, anybody wants it."
The USDA prime steaks are cut in abode by Dispenza, a 2009 alum of Joliet Junior College's Culinary Arts Department and accepted accessory abecedary there. He ahead was a chef at Hollywood Casino Joliet's Final Cut Steakhouse for three years.
"Doing all the annihilation centralized is amount friendly, yes, but we additionally booty pride in authoritative abiding to accord you the best cut we can," he said. "I can adapt a steak to any specification."
In accession to the Tomahawk and Kansas City cuts, entrees accommodate a 24-ounce porterhouse, Alaskan baron backtalk legs, pork abdomen with Parmesan polenta and aphotic blooming and candied onion chutney and smoked bacon jus, Loch Duart apricot with babyish bok choy and a Berkshire pork chop with angel bacon adulate and succotash.
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Sexy Roaring 20s Prohibition Era Frisky Fringe Dress Flapper ... | Prohibition Era Dress CodeA 10-ounce filet mignon and abbreviate rib ravioli with agrarian mushrooms are amid the options on the prix fixe card ($50), which is offered Tuesdays to Thursdays and includes soup or salad, a ancillary and dessert.
Speaking of dessert, save allowance for a croissant doughnut with rum-soaked strawberries, key adhesive mousse martini, amazon with diminished blueberries and candied auto and added treats ($8 to $14) by centralized pastry chef Sara Koepp, a adolescent JJC alum aforetime of Little Goat Chicago, sister acreage of the acclaimed Girl & the Goat.
But we digress. Back to the capital menu, breadth abandon are a la carte and accommodate lobster mac and cheese, asparagus with Hollandaise booze or mashed candied potato with amber amoroso and pecan crumble.
Starters accommodate seared ahi tuna, Oysters Rockefeller, colossal agglomeration backtalk cakes and "Pig Candy," bourbon amber amoroso candied bacon with broiled pecans and an apricot chili sauce.
"My claimed admired is annihilation with pork belly," Dispenza said. "My new booty on poutine has house-made potato chips and smoked gouda booze topped with a brilliant side-up egg."
The best accepted appetizer is a charcuterie lath with abundant European cheeses, cafeteria meats and house-pickled peppers to augment four.
"It's a big hit at the bar while bodies are accepting wine or a cocktail," he said.
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133 best Prohibition Era images on Pinterest | The prohibition ... | Prohibition Era Dress CodeIn accession to a alternative of whiskey, bourbon and Scotch and Prohibition Era-style affair such as Bonnie & Clyde's Old Fashioned, Gangster Gimlet and Bee's Knees, Opera Abode additionally carries rum from adjacent Tailwinds Distilling Company, bottled ability beer and added than 200 wines. The alcohol account is offered via an iPad Mini to anniversary table.
"We additionally accept our own wine distinctively fabricated for us from Sonoma, Opera Abode Private Reserve cabernet and chardonnay," said Mike Vaughn, acquainted wine-pairing dinners are offered occasionally on Sundays.
In befitting with a Prohibition Era-theme, changeable servers are in acclimatized Flapper attire. There is no dress cipher for patrons.
The ample dining allowance is abstracted from the bar and appearance adequate atramentous covering seating, ample windows overlooking the city breadth and the aboriginal balk attic and skylights.
The aboriginal architecture was destroyed by a blaze in 1898 and rebuilt anon after.
Once a soda bubbler in the 1930s and a New Orleans-style restaurant in the backward '90s, the aboriginal attic now appearance Blu Bar, a martini ball lounge, and the Clocktower Shoppe.
The Vaughns own the architecture and several added backdrop in city Plainfield, including addition restaurant, HopScotch & Vine, and retail shops Simply Saucy, What's New and 3 Chic's Boutique.
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SG FASHION FIX* - Finding a Cure for Gatsby Fever? Premiere Party! | Prohibition Era Dress Code"We're absolutely vested in city Plainfield," Cassie Vaughn said. "We bare a steak and seafood abode and what bigger abode to accept it than the Opera House."
"There's annihilation abroad about actuality family-owned of this caliber," Dispenza added.
Vickie Jurkowski is a freelance anchorman for the Daily Southtown.
Opera Abode Steak & Seafood
Address: 15060 S. Illinois St., Plainfield
Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Information: 815-782-5916 or www.operahouseplainfield.com
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