Blackbird Restaurant

Name: Blackbird
Cuisine Type: American
Address: 619 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: 312.715.0708
Web Site: http://www.blackbirdrestaurant.com/
Hours of Operation: Lunch: Monday to Friday 11.30am to 2pm
Dinner: Monday to Thursday 5pm to 10.30pm
Friday and Saturday 5pm to 11.30pm
Reservations: Reservations suggested
Payment Methods: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover
Best Known For – wood-grilled California sturgeon, butter-poached lobster
Cost / Price – $25 to $36

Blackbird Restaurant Review:
Blackbird restaurant in Chicago is contemporary designed with minimal yet stylish décor excludes a chic and a fashionable ambiance. Blackbird restaurant is the perfect venue to meet up with colleagues, friends and associates after work for a couple of drinks and a great meal or generally mingle over the weekend when the noise decibel can get really high.

This stylish restaurant is all about sharing fun, excitement and enthusiasm over a glass of wine or cocktails while you dig into some scrumptious delights. The fare is quite interesting and diverse and includes a range of specialties that offers an opportunity to those who enjoy sampling new and different delicacies.

At Blackbird restaurant the menu boasts savory delights such as caprinelle Pyrenees cheese salad with parsnip cake, pickled green, tomatoes, coriander and marche or baby octopus confit with pears, hazelnuts, chickpeas and eucalyptus. Another delicacy includes the foi gras terrine with puffed barley, whiskey sponge cake, maple and sage.

The main entrees brims with an array of relishing specialties at Blackbird restaurant and there is always something for all kinds of taste-buds. The wood-grilled California sturgeon with parsley root, broccoli, mustard spaetzel and dried black bean is one such specialty among the array of delicacies.

At Blackbird restaurant in Chicago, seafood enthusiasts should not miss out on butter-poached lobster with sea beans, lime pickled turnips, flageolets in a spicy fig broth. Duck breast with black raisin, savoy cabbage and sauerkraut dusted yukons or roasted Colorado lamb with spring pea falafel, asparagus, vermouth and fromage blanc are some other relishing dishes.

If you wouldn’t like to go for the a la carte menu, you can even opt for the tasting menu that also includes quite a mouthwatering assortment. Additional wine pairing is also available with this special tasting menu. The bar at Blackbird restaurant definitely represents the stylish and glamorous aspect of this restaurant and is well stocked with a range of interesting cocktails, wines, beer, cognac, port, sherry, Madeira, brandy and calvados.

Though drinks perfectly compliment the choice of food, one cannot forget that a meal is considered incomplete with some sweet decadence. Choose between seasonal sorbets or the elaborately prepared desserts such as the ovaltine ganache or cirollo chocolate with milk meringue, cupuacu and tonka bean ice cream.

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