Esmé has released tickets for the next exhibit and menu experience at the restaurant in Lincoln Park. Chef Jenner Tomaska curates a tasting menu that showcases the change in season with dishes that draw inspiration from the beauty of fall and winter ingredients. Signature Esmé options such as the "Pierogi" with burnt onion consommé and black truffles; and "Mother of Pearl"featuring white sweet potato ice cream, peanut miso, celery hot sauce, and osetra caviar return, in addition to new dishes such as the "Tortoise & the Hare" with maple & truffle consommé and rabbit ragu.
Operations & Beverage Director Tia Barrett crafts Exploratory, Classic and Non-Alcoholic pairings to complement, while introducing new bottle and cocktail selections.
With the new menu, the space also transforms to showcase three different bodies of artwork from Amanda Love, a long-time Chicago artist who recently relocated to Granville, Ohio. Love is known for her multi-sensory, interdisciplinary installations that explore culture and meaning through various mediums. For the collaboration, Love showcases pieces from her "Word Matter," "Signatures" and "No Words" collections.
"Word Matter" addresses the metamorphosis of words and books from explicitly historical, quotidian objects to altered organic matter. Her deconstructions of books free the viewer from traditional interpretations, offering new ways to decipher meaning in the repeating matter with the words, books, bark, rock formations, waves and landscape serving as disruptions to those thought patterns.
"Signatures" showcases a series of pure gold panels with methodically ripped, colorful book signatures mounted to the surface to evoke memories of words, as well as passages in books that take the reader to places spoken and unspoken.
Her "No Words" collection reveals hundreds of dismantled books that have been torn systematically down to the spine, ripping all the words away. As a former bookbinder, Love's work explores the history of knowledge in relation to its physical form, including how it was documented (stones, walls, codex) and the structures that held it such as libraries. The pieces invite the viewer to join Love as she questions how cultures interact with knowledge and how we either retain or lose knowledge over time.
Tickets are now available on Resy for reservations starting Friday/November 4, 2022 through Sunday/February 26, 2023 for $200 per person on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and $250 per person Friday through Sunday.
Esmé has released tickets for the next exhibit and menu experience at the restaurant in Lincoln Park. Chef Jenner Tomaska curates a tasting menu that showcases the change in season with dishes that draw inspiration from the beauty of fall and winter ingredients. Signature Esmé options such as the "Pierogi" with burnt onion consommé and black truffles; and "Mother of Pearl" featuring white sweet potato ice cream, peanut miso, celery hot sauce, and osetra caviar return, in addition to new dishes such as the "Tortoise & the Hare" with maple & truffle consommé and rabbit ragu.
Operations & Beverage Director Tia Barrett crafts Exploratory, Classic and Non-Alcoholic pairings to complement, while introducing new bottle and cocktail selections.
With the new menu, the space also transforms to showcase three different bodies of artwork from Amanda Love, a long-time Chicago artist who recently relocated to Granville, Ohio. Love is known for her multi-sensory, interdisciplinary installations that explore culture and meaning through various mediums. For the collaboration, Love showcases pieces from her "Word Matter," "Signatures" and "No Words" collections.
"Word Matter" addresses the metamorphosis of words and books from explicitly historical, quotidian objects to altered organic matter. Her deconstructions of books free the viewer from traditional interpretations, offering new ways to decipher meaning in the repeating matter with the words, books, bark, rock formations, waves and landscape serving as disruptions to those thought patterns.
"Signatures" showcases a series of pure gold panels with methodically ripped, colorful book signatures mounted to the surface to evoke memories of words, as well as passages in books that take the reader to places spoken and unspoken.
Her "No Words" collection reveals hundreds of dismantled books that have been torn systematically down to the spine, ripping all the words away. As a former bookbinder, Love's work explores the history of knowledge in relation to its physical form, including how it was documented (stones, walls, codex) and the structures that held it such as libraries. The pieces invite the viewer to join Love as she questions how cultures interact with knowledge and how we either retain or lose knowledge over time.
Tickets are now available on Resy for reservations starting Friday/November 4, 2022 through Sunday/February 26, 2023 for $200 per person on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and $250 per person Friday through Sunday.
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