- James Beard Foundation
It’s gotten very little attention from local food media (that was sarcasm) but the James Beard Foundation Awards for chefs and restaurants are being held on Monday night, and there are approximately 14,000,000 events related to them this weekend. Most are for industry people, but some are open to regular folks who want to mingle with chefs and such. For instance, tonight Acadia is hosting a bourbon and bluegrass party from 6 to 10 PM. Chef Ryan McCaskey will whip up a raw oyster bar, a suckling pig, and other things, while Greg Buttera (Dusek’s, Thalia Hall) and Stephen Cole (Lone Wolf) will mix bourbon cocktails. It’s $75, part of which will go the Chicago Zoological Society and the Brookfield Zoo.
• There are lots of industry after-parties in the works, but here’s one you can go to: Monday night from 10 PM to 2 AM the team from Broken Shaker in the upcoming Freehand Hotel will be at La Sirena Clandestina.
