Neil and I celebrated Valentine's Day early this year by going to dinner at Perennial Virant (http://perennialchicago.com/). I have been wanting to go here for some time, just based solely on how cute it looks from the outside, especially in the summer! I loved everything about this restaurant! I was really impressed with how well spaced out the tables are, such an odd thing, but lately it seems every place we go to tries to cram in as many people as possible or has communal seating. That can be fun, but it was nice to not be sitting on top of the people next to us, too! The staff there was all so nice and friendly. We started off with a bottle of champagne (my fave!!!!) and the waiter was insanely knowledgeable on this particular champagne and gave us a brief history on that bottle. What's so impressive about this is Perennial has a 3000 bottle wine cellar downstairs, so this guy really knows his stuff!!
For our food selectiosn we had a good range starting with the bar snacks (yum) and then moving to the
Werp farm parsnip gnocchi which had river valley mushrooms, sunchoke chips, ham hock and smoked apple butter sauce. This was accompanied with the Hillside orchard chestnut ravioli that had local spinach, candied fennel and orange butte inside. We finished the meal with Slagel family farm lamb cassoule, which had
smoked leg, sausage, navy beans and bread crumbs and the Q7 ranch beef shepherd's pie that contained
winter vegetables, potatoes, nordic creamery smoked cheddar.
I loved this place and would definitely recommend it to anyone!
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