Food

Set Menu

• Set Menu115
• Wine Pairing55
• Juice Pairing25

• Tea of lightly smoked fruits and vegetables
• Daikon radish with sorrel butter on rugbrød
• Cured hamachi with fried potato
• Duck liver tart with salted ramp and toasted buckwheat
• Smoked trout with trout roe, salted apple, and puffed barley
• Confit halibut with green tomato, ajo blanco, and almond
• Grilled duck breast with celeriac, coffee, and salted plum
• Frozen fennel jelly with mint
• Toasted yeast ice cream with date molasses, apples, and a chicory cruller

A La Carte Menu

• Publican Quality oat porridge sourdough and cultured koji butter10
• Aged gouda with honey, peach jam, and crackers15
• Salt-cured anchovies with fennel pollen, lemon, and grilled bread15
• Belgian endive with creamed sherry dressing, pickled raisins, and walnuts 21
• Heirloom tomatoes with stracciatella, cherries, smoked paprika, and herbs 26
• Charred leeks vinaigrette with clothbound cheddar, toasted oats, and black olive24
• Fried shrimp with cantaloupe, daikon, candied ginger, and jalapeno 28
• Smoked eel with marinated cucumber, spinach, and nasturtium 29
• Grilled swordfish with eggplant, caramelized onion, and dill 28
• Confit maitake with cornbread polenta, lovage, and pecorino27
• Sunchoke tortellini with matsutakes, pancetta, and pine nuts 27
• Stuffed chicken leg with turnips, tarragon, and roasted chicken velouté29
• Grilled pork collar with roasted zucchini, nori, and white sesame32
• Lemon myrtle pot de crème with melon, honeydew sorbet and pine 14
• Meringue with whipped buttermilk, olive oil, pea, and last summer's herbs14
• Sunflower seed parfait with sour honey, licorice, and bee pollen14
• Dark chocolate sorbet with øllebrød and hazelnut15

Drinks

Cocktails

• Bar Manager ~ Monica Casillas-Rios
• Swizzle
  aquavit, montenegro, peach, basil14
• Martini
  vodka, saler, cucumber-dill vermouth14
• Collins
  tequila, mezcal, aperitif rosso, cantaloupe, tomato14
• Stirred
  bourbon, calvados, sweet vermouth, walnut14

Non-Alchoholic

• Drinks
• Shrub
  seedlip citrus, tart cherry, sage 11
• Herbaceous
  seedlip garden, thai basil, lemon11

About

Elske Accolades

• 2017-2021Michelin One Michelin Star
• 2020Jean Banchet Award Chefs of the Year
• 2019James Beard, Finalist Best Chefs: Great Lakes
• 2019OpenTable Diner's Choice
• 2018James Beard, Finalist Best Chefs: Great Lakes
• 2018Jean Banchet Award Best New Restaurant, Nominee
• 2017Bon Appetit #2 Best New Restaurant in America
• 2017Eater Best New Restaurant, National
• 2017Zagat
• 2017The Tastys (Taste Talks) Best New Restaurant: North

Anna Posey

• 2018Jean Banchet Award Pastry Chef of the Year
• 2015StarChefs Rising Pastry Star
• 2014Zagat 30 Under 30
• 2013TimeOut Chicago Best New Pastry Chef
• 2013Food and Wine Nominee People’s Best New Pastry Chef

David Posey

• 2015Waldorf Astoria A Taste of Waldorf Winner
• 2010-2014Michelin Star for Blackbird Restaurant, Chicago
• 2014James Beard Award Finalist Rising Star Chef
• 2014Bill of Fare Chefs to Watch
• 2013Jean Banchet Award Chef de Cuisine
• 2013James Beard Award Finalist Rising Star Chef
• 2012Eater Young Guns
• 2012Zagat 30 Under 30