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Enjoy this story from our archive, originally sent to TT members on 12/14/2009.
Changing its Spots
X-marx ups the ante--and frequency--of their underground dinners
X-marx, one of Chicago’s best high-concept, nomadic supper clubs, turns two on New Year’s Eve.
And the traveling affair, whose dinners take place in secret locations across town (a Printer’s Row loft, say, or an historic West Side mansion), has big plans for their third year.
Chefs Abe Conlon and Adrienne Lo will continue throwing monthly “junkets” ($95) that blend serious cuisine with a sense of humor. Expect the eight or more courses to run the flavor gamut; at a recent game-themed dinner in a Humboldt Park gallery, barbecued quail shared a bowl of smoky barbecue consommé with Taleggio-stuffed macaroni (pictured). Mild elk tartare was seasoned with kimchi, a quail egg and plummy hoisin ketchup.
New to the repertoire are weekly 12-person X-market dinners ($45): three- to four-course meals inspired by morning trips to ethnic neighborhood markets. On 12/15, a trip to the Korean Super H Mart in Niles will inspire a vegetarian meal. In January, look for X-markets drawing from Argyle (1/5), Devon (1/9), Koreatown (1/12) and Little Italy (1/16), and an Ice Age Barbecue Junket featuring grilled and smoked 'cue from around the world.
Sign up to get invites and access. And once you’re in, inquire about a sneak-preview taste of Mama’s Nuts peanut brittle, an addictive sweet inspired by Lo’s mother, available only by special request...for now.
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