José Andrés’s two massive Downtown Chicago restaurants open Wednesday
The restaurants are a collaboration between Andrés’s ThinkFoodGroup and Chicago’s Gibsons Restaurant Group, are decadent anchors at the base of the 56-story Bank of America Tower that sits on the Chicago River and was completed in late 2020. Both spaces will open on Wednesday, a week later than scheduled, after a furniture delivery delay.
Andrés says his partners wanted to stagger the openings, but the pandemic forced their hands, and so first-floor Bar Mar — which features a raw bar and fresh seafood small plates — and second-floor Bazaar Meat — which features Gibsons’s prized Australian wagyu beef and other cuts from purveyors like La Pryor Farms — opened at once.
Both spaces are beautiful. Bar Mar is the more visually striking of the two: the 200-seat dining room sits beneath a 40-foot ceiling, and a giant octopus sculpture hovers in the air above the bar where bartenders mix smoked cocktails and other concoctions. Patrons can order caviar, ceviche, and more. Huge glass windows enclose the space.
Upstairs, Bazaar Meat is more intimate, and diners can watch the action in the open kitchen. The Lombardos, the family that owns Gibsons, say they were impressed during a visit to the Bazaar location in Las Vegas. They’re adapting the concept to Chicago, where diners will find whole suckling pig, full-blood wagyu, and fine cured meats. A custom-built
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