Singled Out: Castel Gandolfo
Doughy, delicious Neapolitan pizza is served at this brick oven pizzeria
Year: 2009
Flesh and Blood
The day Grandpa finally told his war stories
Sales Check
A roundup of October’s sales, store openings, and shopping news
Pour: Rye Chicago and Midwest Wheat
Koval Distillery captivates with their grain and fruit flavors
The Great Terrace — Glencoe
List Price: $4.2 million
The Property: A new ten-room residence on a quiet block-long street that ends at a Lake Michigan overlook, this house has an overlook of its own: a super-sized third-story terrace with a view over the ranch house next door to the lake.
The Sun Also Rises
Two Floors of Japan
After a year of business, Farmerie 58 (58 E. Ontario St.), a massive Gold Coast space with an identity crisis (farm-oriented bistro? Raw bar? Pub?), has closed. The current plan calls for the ground level to reopen later this fall as a sushi bar with Ming San (formerly of Rise) as the sushi chef. If all goes as expected, the upstairs will eventually unveil as a
Staff Décor, Martha, Design Parties, and More
Joanne Trestrail, one of Chicago Home + Garden’s senior editors, wears a lot of hats. In addition to being a fellow copy-cat, she runs all over town as a food critic for Chicago magazine, has taught photography at Jane Addams Hull House, and is an accomplished artist.
5 Theatre Picks
Don’t-miss events for 09.23.09 through 09.29.09: Top shows from this week’s theatre bill; for our full Fall Theatre Preview, pick up the October issue of Chicago, on stands now. Plus: X’s and O’s from a real-life Gossip Girl and free jazz in Hyde Park
High Fidelity
Desginphiles and audiophiles, listen up. The local company Specimen Products, which for 20 years has been building custom guitars, horn speakers, and more for the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Tweedy, and Neko Case, just came out with these cool Little Horn Speakers. Available in several colors, the horns are made from lacquered fiberglass on a lacquered 8-inch birch plywood cube. Dimensions are: 36 inches high from base to top, 14 inches in diameter (the horn). A pair starts at $1,850.These speakers (in a larger version) have graced many a stage with Chicago indie fave Andrew Bird. Love this melding of graceful design with industry cred. Check out the Specimen Web site for more details.
—GINA BAZER
The Hardest-Hit Communities
Each October, with help from Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicago publishes its annual real-estate chart, which, among other things, shows the average price of a house in all 77 city neighborhoods and more than 200 suburbs. The chart also notes how this year’s prices compare to the prior year and to 1994, the earliest year for which MRED has data for most of those neighborhoods and towns. Usually that comparison with 1994 is a heartening measure of the long-term growth in the value of a Chicago-area home.