SUPER BOWL IS BETTER WITH CHOW FROM CHICAGO'S BEST RESTAURANTS
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The Super Bowl is always a time for serious snacking if not a major chow down. It’s a big day for sports…but also, traditionally, for guacamole, hot dogs, polish sausage and all the other foods that we enjoy when getting together to watch teams thrash it out on the gridiron.
We dearly love guacamole, etc., but variety is the spice, right (?), so why not try something new this Super Bowl Sunday (February 7) with perhaps more exotic offerings from Chicago’s best restaurants, including some nontraditional offerings from Indian, Greek, and other colorful food sources.
Here are five of Chicago’s best restaurants, all putting out special food offerings for the Super Bowl, one of the best sporting and eating days on the calendar.
Rooh. Chicago’s most exciting neo-Indian dining spot, Rooh on Randolph street is doing something special for the Super Bowl. On Sunday, February 7, Rooh will launch a virtual restaurant from its West Loop location. This one-day only pop-up is called Butter Chicken Shack, and it will make it possible to go beyond the guacamole with Indian specialties like butter chicken puffs, masala chicken wings, Kerala chicken nuggets, and lamb keema nachos – finger foods inspired by the sub-continent…and delicious.
Avli Taverna. As Chicago’s traditional Greek restaurant re-invented, Avli Taverna is doing a very special menu for the Super Bowl. Instead of the usual (and fantastic!) saganaki and gyros, for the big ball day Avli Taverna is rolling out Harrison Farm chicken wings with three dipping sauces (tamarind bbq, ginger soy and Spartan spice), along with a four-pack of Fix Lager. For our favorite Sunday in February, Avli Taverna will bring you something familiar with an exotic twist.
Rye Deli & Drink. Deli food is so perfect for Super Bowl noshing that it’s a little bit of a surprise that it hasn’t gained more of a foothold on the tables of this annual sporting feast. For the Super Bowl, Rye Deli & Drink is preparing pick-up Ruben sandwich kits. Each kit includes two sandwich set-ups: bread, pastrami, mustard, cheese, and sauerkraut. Also included are two Good Old Fashioned Fun cocktails composed of Old Forester Rye, calvados, apple, and tropical fruit syrup.
The Bristol. GQ named The Bristol one of the Top Ten Best New Restaurants in the country., and The Bristol has long been recognized as one of Chicago’s finest and most adventurous restaurants. For Super Bowl Sunday, The Bristol keeps it blissfully simple with an eight-ounce prime Angus cheeseburger, dressed up with bacon, jam, sesame seed bun and, yes, fries do come with that! A burger is about as casual as you can get, and The Bristol takes it up a notch (we’d expect nothing less!), to present a burger as great as the game you plan to watch while eating it.
Daisies. When the pandemic began, Daisies in Logan Square started serving customers from their inhouse marketplace, and that’s what they’re presenting for Super Bowl Sunday. With vendors like Beautiful Rind, Publican Quality Meat and Catalpa Grove Farm, Daisies is serving up onion dip and house-made chips, a house cheese blend (Parmesan and pecorino) and a huge selection of wines. For a casual, sit-on-the-couch, chow down on game day, Daisies is a perfect choice.
