Last Chance New Year's

Here’s your last chance until 4705, and you won’t hear any more Chinese New Year chatter from me until then. Opera restaurant (312-461-0161), at 1301 S. Wabash in the South Loop, is hosting its Chinese New Year Celebration Wednesday, Feb. 1 through Saturday, Feb. 4.

The tab on their pre-set menu is $30, and for that you get three courses plus an amuse bouche from the chef, and fruit for dessert. You do get a few choices: peanut noodle salad with crispy garlic, for starters, and then maybe crispy shrimp with blood orange sweet and sour sauce. Follow that with beef and broccoli, or a four-ounce filet.

Naturally, wash it all down with a few beers, and resolve to never miss a Chinese New Year celebration again. Or resolve to dedicate yourself to those resolutions you made on Jan. 1 and forgot about already. Think of it as a second chance, really, not a last chance.

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