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Chicago Cafe has endured two World Wars, myriad financial swings and more than a century’s worth of changing palates. After 121 years — maybe — it’s experiencing its moment in the sun.
The restaurant is known for its Beijing Duck Feast, a three-course dinner with Peking duck carved tableside and served with gua bao, sauce, and garnishes. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] After serving the duck, the carcass is returned to the kitchen to be turned into duck fried rice or duck noodles, and then duck soup, the next courses.
The Silversmith Hotel is a boutique hotel located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It occupies the historic Silversmith Building , designed in 1896 by Peter J. Weber of the architectural firm of D.H. Burnham and Company , who also designed the Fisher Building .
In 2018 the hotel was awarded the #2 best hotel in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report and in 2017 the Travel + Leisure magazine's award for #1 Hotel in Chicago. [18] The Peninsula is one of only four 5-star hotels in Chicago , the others being the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago , The Langham Chicago, and Trump Tower Chicago .
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The design of the building includes, from the ground up, retail space, a parking garage, a hotel and condominiums. The 339-room hotel opened for business with limited accommodations and services on January 30, 2008, then full accommodation and services on April 28. The building was topped out in late 2008 and construction was completed in 2009.
Chicago Cafe owner Paul Fong thanks longtime customers Frances and Melton Losoya, who walk past the restaurant’s 100-year-old refrigerator as they leave through the kitchen after a meal last ...
The hotel would become the residence of many prominent residents of Chicago. Additionally, popular gathering spot for notable figures was the hotel's bar room, which actor John Brougham had given the name "House of David". [3] Among the notable frequenters of the "House of David" over the years was former congressman David Stuart. [3]