A new restaurant has taken up the challenge that is the Lavin Family Pavilion dining space; WoodWind, which opened in mid-October, looks to succeed where GreenRiver did not.
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Streeterville’s new sleek high-rise restaurant with a whimsical menu and sweeping views of downtown Chicago opens today. WoodWind, a new spot from Matt O’Neill (Craigie on Main, Bar Boulud, Ajax Tavern) of New York-based Craveable Hospitality Group (formerly the David Burke Group) and Cr(eat)e Restaurant Consulting…
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WoodWind is the name of a regional restaurant featuring small plates that’s coming to the former GreenRiver space on the 18th floor of the Lavin Family Pavilion at 259 E. Erie Street. Craveable Hospitality Group’s — formerly the David Burke Group — plans to open a restaurant at that address were first reported in July. Michelin-starred GreenRiver shuttered last year after less than two-and-a-half years in business.
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WoodWind strives to make sophisticated dining approachable with its chef-driven, regionally-inspired cuisine.
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Phil Vettel thinks WoodWind has what it takes to become a dining destination. The new restaurant on the 18th floor of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Lavin Family Pavilion replaced acclaimed cocktail bar GreenRiver and the critic enjoys the early results.
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An 18th-floor Streeterville space that has been vacant since GreenRiver closed in January 2018 is about to get a new tenant.
WoodWind, a small-plates, regionally focused restaurant, is aiming for a mid-October opening in the Lavin Family Pavilion (259 E. Erie St.), which is part of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital medical campus. The restaurant is being launched by the Craveable Hospitality Group, whose concepts included David Burke’s Primehouse, which was in the James Hotel (operated by a different company) in River North.
“We’re happy to be here,” said Matt O’Neill, vice president of culinary for Craveable Hospitality. “It’s a beautiful space.”
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Satisfy hunger pangs and a desire for epic city views simultaneously at this 18th-floor stunner, which occupies the former GreenRiver space. Chefs Matt O’Neill and Donald Young serve a menu of plates at once playful and refined that progresses from snacks to larger entrees (further categorized into “Fields & Ranches,” “From the Sea,” and “Mostly Vegetables”).
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WoodWind is a fine-dining destination 18 floors up with serious culinary chops and serious cityscape views. Executive Chef Donald Young (formerly of Temporis) is leading the execution of the whimsical menu. Dishes are fun and playful, including the Buffalo Chicken Chicharrón and the Foie Gras “Bao Mac,” an upscale take on a Big Mac with bread-and-butter pickles and fancy sauce, plus the Bloomin’ Maitake, a mushroom version of a Bloomin’ Onion with sesame caramel and bonito flakes. The cocktail menu is equally as playful, with ingredients ranging from activated charcoal and butterfly pea flower, to beets and dark chocolate. Weekday happy hour is also available, featuring a condensed menu of discounted bites and drinks.
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A contemporary American restaurant that aims to highlight innovative approaches to fine-dining ingredients is coming to a high-profile space in Streeterville next week. WoodWind, a new venue from New York-based Craveable Hospitality Group, opens to the public October 16 at 259 E. Erie Street on the 18th floor of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital campus’s Lavin Family Pavilion. The high-rise space with a picturesque terrace previously housed Michelin-starred GreenRiver, which closed in early 2018 after less than two-and-a-half years in business.
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David Burke, the New York-based celebrity chef, has selected Matt O’Neill to lead the kitchen at his forthcoming Aspen, Colo., restaurant, David Burke Kitchen.
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Aspen Kitchen, an artisanal market-to-table restaurant, recently opened in the heart of historic downtown Aspen. Executive chef Matthew O’Neill says the new restaurant features authentic, all-American ingredients with items sourced locally from Colorado.
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The first thing you’ll see when you walk into Aspen Kitchen is the patented Pink Himalayan Saltbrick Dry Aging Room, which displays saltbrick meats in a glass box lined with bricks of pink Himalayan rock salt glowing from hidden lights. This piece not only makes a bold statement, but it also emphasizes the brilliant qualities of the restaurant. From the denim outfits that servers wear to the rustic and modern décor—Executive Chef Matthew O’Neill has created a casual eatery with an upscale flair.
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Chef Matt O’Neill at Ajax Tavern has a cult following, and not just for his double cheeseburgers and truffle fries. While they are quite addictive, it’s his Brussels sprouts that have guests clamoring for the recipe and wanting to meet the man behind the magic greens.
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Ajax Tavern Chef Matt O’Neill recently journeyed to Santa Fe New Mexico to participate in the Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta. The event includes cooking demonstrations, wine seminars, guest chef meals and grand tastings… all focused around the mighty chile.
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With more than 30 parks and playgrounds in Aspen available to enjoy everything from picnics and playing to barbecues and reunions, summer is all about being outdoors and gathering with family and friends.
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O’Neill said the festival will feature oysters on the half-shell and various oyster hors d’oeuvres as well as the infamous Rocky Mountain oyster. It’s too soon to say where the saltwater oysters will be from.”We follow the freshness on the oysters,” he said. “We order from dozens of suppliers depending on what they have and what’s the best.”
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The new concept opens today, featuring the kinds of dishes that foodies lust over on Instagram. Taking his cues from the social media playbook, O’Neill, as vice president of culinary for Craveable Hospitality Group and the idea man behind Revolution Hall, monitored trending foods online and gave them homes in this former two-story Borders bookstore.
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The newest tenant of the Rosedale Center mall in the Minneapolis suburb of Roseville, Minn., is a 30,000-square-foot laboratory filled with just about every trend and experiment in the restaurant industry.
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The culinary marketplace going into Rosedale Center will open just in time to feed holiday revelers. Revolution Hall, originally called Craveable Market but since renamed, is slated to roll out Nov. 16.
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The name says it all.
When it opens this fall at Rosedale, Revolution Hall has all the makings of a, well, revolutionary new chapter in shopping mall dining.
Rather than rehashing Taco John’s, Dairy Queen, Long John Silvers, Subway and Cinnabon around a bleak seating area, the Roseville shopping center has tapped New York City-based Craveable Hospitality Group, which operates restaurants in Manhattan, Connecticut and Aspen, Colo., to reinvent a former bookstore into a one-of-a-kind collection of dining and drinking establishments.
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