Chicago Steakhouses and Cigar Smoking
 

I am heading to Chicago in a few weeks for a 3 day vacation and was wondering if anyone has an recommendation for a great steakhouse and if you can smoke in Chicago - hoping to have a great dinner followed by a great cigar - :D

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Vince

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Sadly, there is no smoking indoors except B&Ms pretty much.

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What part of the city are you staying in. There are only a few lounges actually in the city, but plenty out in the suburbs.

As far as steakhouses go, it depends on how much coin you are looking to drop.

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My favorite is Gale Street Inn, on the northwest side. Famous for their ribs, and their steaks ain't too bad either!

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You can get a great steak at Gibsons, Mortons, Harry Carey's, Gale Street Inn...but you can only smoke in a B&M. :(

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:tpd:

Ain't that total appalling BS!!!

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how's the chop house these days, Tom?

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I haven't been since the smoking ban took effect, Larry, but their food is among the best. :tu

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you know i really used to like Illinois

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yeah, that and Gibson's would be my choice. sucks that in the city of the big shoulders you can wander into a swank joint - like Gibson's - have a martini before dinner, clog an artery with a huge hunk of red meat and wash it down with your choice of spirits, but you can't fire up a cigar after...

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Me too...and I live here! :tg :c

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mortons...been a long time since i was there...then to trader vick's for mi thia's

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think there is an adam's rib there never been but wanted to try it

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Trader Vic's in in the Near North "Viagra Triangle" area now, and from the description of some friends who were there in the spring, their prices have gone berserk. Since I was around for the tail end of the classic "Tiki" era in Chicago I would love to try the place, but am scared of the prices.

I can name a cheaper place in Lincolnwood that makes Mai Tais to die for.

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Me too. :r

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Not in Chicago...It's definitely out in the boonies...http://www.al-capone.com/steakhouse/index.html

Not sure what the smoking ordinances are up there anymore, but I think they had a lounge you could smoke in.

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Well, if you take the BNSF down to Naperville from Union Station, you are 4 blocks from Sullivan's Steak House (get the bone-in texas ribeye!) and then you are 1 block away from Bull and Bear.

Actually I think they are doing a Puff on the Patio w/ Sullivan Steak House end of July or first of August. Call them and ask!

Here is the link to their website:

Bull and Bear

When will you be in town!? There are a handful of B&M downtown, one of the highly regarded is Jack Schwartz....a few blocks from Union Station in the Chicago Board of Trade building (I might be wrong about the name of the building).

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It's in Illinois, so it is "No Smoking". :hn

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Good thing I moved from there ;-)

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Thanks for all the replies, sounds like Gibson's or Mortons - I am staying downtown at Wacker and Michigan Ave. area.

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man, i miss the old trader vic's - what hotel was it in, again? getting old, can't remember. i just have trace memories of drinking fruity drinks out of coconuts...

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Palmer House, I think.

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that's it! it is the palmer house last time we were there the mia thia's were buy one get one ...:al

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Doesn't Ditkas still have the adjoining cigar room?

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IL law prohibits it.

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IL's smoking ban was started recently, right? I was in Chicago for St Patty's Day in 2007 and remember being able to smoke almost anywhere.

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January 1st, 2008....a day that will live in infamy. :)

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:mad: had I know this I might have sent her alone in Oct and stayed home with Mr. Nee had meaningful conversation, port, cigars and the game on the tube..

Rob :tpd:

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I still remember the Punch Ninfa that was my final "legal" cigar...heck, I went fifteen minutes into "illegal" time with it!

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You can smoke at my place. ;)

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Gene & Georgetti's or The Chop House would be my choice or steakhouses. Then sit on the curb and enjoy an afterdinner cigar.