Subscribe: Bacon and Beer is here. Beginning this Friday, a newer restaurant called Fixture (2706 N. Ashland Ave., 773-248-3331) is offering a Bacon and Beer prix-fixe (that’s “set price” for all you non-Francophiles) dinner in a neighborhood they are calling West Lakeview.
The savory, three-course tasting menu, paired with three distinctly-flavored beers and available through Nov. 30, consists of chef Sarah Nelson’s epicurean twist on pork and brew.
Course One features warm frisee salad with lardons of boar bacon, aged cheddar and a quail egg, paired with a chilly Stella Artois from Belgium. Course Two consists of a pan-seared diver scallop with porchetta (a Tuscan-style suckling pig tenderloin), heirloom tomato fumet and a crispy scallion polenta cake, with an Allagash White from Portland, Maine. And for the final course, Fixture is offering a buffalo kurobuta pork (the Japanese version of a generously marbled Berkshire pig) empanada with guajillo mole, fire-roasted corn pico de gallo and cilantro lime crème fraiche, with a Lost Coast Downtown Brown Ale from Eureka, California. Eureka!
The cost for the whole enchilada, the whole hog, is a reasonable $45.
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Back when Fixture was the Burgundy Inn, the New City paper’s restaurant reviews said it had the “town’s best ribs.” Did the new owner inherit the recipe, by any chance?
Anon, I can’t say for sure but looking at their menu on the link above, it doesn’t look like it. Fixture lists Korean short ribs–”bulgogi”–but that’s a different animal altogether.
If you’re into barbecued ribs I suggest you take the word of Heather Shouse, who is the dining editor of Time Out Chicago. She is a hellatious foodie and, among all else, an absolute ‘cue fanatic. She also happens to hail from ground zero of BBQ, Kansas City.
Heather says the best ribs in Chicago can be had at Barbara Ann’s, 7617 S. Cottage Grove Ave. (773-723-4780). If you’re more northerly inclined, her second-place vote went to Robinson’s at 655 W. Armitage Ave. (312-337-1399), across from Lincoln Park High School.
Or if you’re a West Sider, there was a joint out there in the running, too: Honey 1 BBQ at 5135 W. Division St. (773-626-5436).
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