Food

Set Menu

• Set Menu115
• Wine Pairing55
• Juice Pairing25

• Tea of lightly smoked fruits and vegetables
• Gunde's cucumber salad on crisp rye bread
• Cured fluke with fried potato
• Duck liver tart with salted ramp and toasted buckwheat
• Roasted celtuce with trout roe, ricotta, red currants, and sorrel
• Confit halibut with green tomato, ajo blanco, and almond
• Grilled lamb saddle and sausage with cauliflower, fennel, and date jam
• Frozen fennel jelly with mint
• Blueberries with kombu panna cotta, coffee, and lavender

A La Carte Menu

• Publican Quality oat porridge sourdough and cultured koji butter10
• Aged gouda with honey, smoked rhubarb, 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 soft shell crab with green asparagus, hazelnuts, and sea beans30
• Rhubarb-glazed smoked eel with snap peas, buckwheat, and nasturtium29
• Grilled swordfish with eggplant, caramelized onion, and dill 28
• Confit maitake with cornbread polenta, lovage, and pecorino27
• Yeasted spaccatelli with chanterelles, wax beans, and delice de bourgogne 28
• Stuffed chicken leg with turnips, tarragon, and roasted chicken velouté29
• Grilled coulotte steak with roasted zucchini, nori, and white sesame32
• Creamy soy ice cream, sweet cherries, tonka, and mastic 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
  mezcal, ancho reyes, st. germain, snap pea, lovage14
• Stirred
  bourbon, limoncello, dry vermouth, chamomile14
• Spritz
  lillet rose, red aperitivo, cachaca, cava, tonic14

Non-Alchoholic

• Drinks
• Floral
  seedlip grove, hibiscus-melon milk tea, banana11
• Herbaceous
  seedlip garden, celery, snap pea, 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