Two thirsty Dubliners have created a master plan to guzzle seventy-two drinks (twelve on each of the six continents they will visit) in twenty days. “The Twelfth Pub” tour stemmed from an Irish tradition—one night in December you visit twelve pubs with friends and drink a pint in each place. Coordinators Eammon Conaghan and Frank McNally, both 31, will have their first drink in Chicago on December 1 and then go on to Buenos Aires, Dublin, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Perth, in that order. “We’ll generally try to include pubs representative of the cultural heritage in each town,” says Conaghan. “Then end up somewhere a bit more happening.” The trip is partly funded by a natural hangover medication called “LifeLine Hangover Defence.” “We’re going to give it the ultimate road test,” says Conaghan.
Hot Chicken Gets Warm Welcome in Chicago: Cluck It! Cluck It!—a ghost kitchen on south Wabash that opened last month—served us a more moderately spiced chicken. This is the kind of comfort food that many of us are craving.
Foods of Our Own: Unique Deliciousness, Made in Chicago Here are two of those Chicago originals, foods—and one Chicago original drink—found many times nowhere else but here and that, for better or worse, have become something unique, a Chicago thing, foods of our own.
Lake Whiskey: The Marvel That Was Chicago’s Chapin & Gore Just over a century ago, prohibition ended Chicago’s Chapin & Gore as a business. Today, the Chapin & Gore Building, at 63 East Adams, is part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Center campus and a Chicago landmark.
