Food

Set Menu

• Set Menu125
• Wine Pairing55
• Juice Pairing25

• Tea of lightly smoked fruits and vegetables
• Daikon radish with sorrel butter and cured egg yolk on rugbrød
• Fried brandade with trout roe and molasses
• Golden beet stuffed with quark, salted apple, puffed barley, and dill
• Roasted sablefish with shrimp, cauliflower, and marigold
• Duck liver tart with salted ramp and toasted buckwheat
• Grilled duck breast with dried fruit sausage and fennel
• Frozen anise 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, quince-ginger jam, and crackers15
• Salt-cured anchovies with fennel pollen, lemon, and grilled bread15
• Belgian endive with creamed sherry dressing, pickled raisins, and walnuts 21
• Hanger steak tartare with pickled beets, amaranth, and red miso 27
• Charred leeks vinaigrette with clothbound cheddar, toasted oats, and fried capers27
• Rye-diatori with maitakes, puffed grains, chervil, and soured mushroom butter 28
• Butternut squash gnudi with egg yolk, pecorino, and smoked paprika30
• Celeriac ‘risotto’ with apple, candied hazelnuts, and black truffle 30
• Steamed halibut with white beans, fried kale, and curry 32
• Veal sweetbreads with caramelized onion, roasted grape, and thyme 29
• Grilled pork collar with carrots, chopped pickles, and coriander 32
• Roasted beef coulotte with celtuce, bitter greens, and sauce bourguignon 34
• Hay custard with grapefruit, buckwheat, and brown sugar 16
• Rice pudding with salted cranberry, tart cherry, and rose 16
• Sunflower seed parfait with sour honey, licorice, and bee pollen16
• Dark chocolate cake with black olive and lavender18

Drinks

Cocktails

• Bar Manager ~ Monica Casillas-Rios
• Vodka
  absinthe, blackberry shrub, lime, soda14
• Gin
  orange liquer, quince, honey, lemon14
• Mezcal
  salers, cocchi rosa14
• Bourbon
  calvados, sweet vermouth, walnut14
• Gløgg
  red wine, aquavit, almonds, winter spices14

Non-Alchoholic

• Drinks
• Floral
  seedlip grove, earl grey quince, honey11
• Shrub
  assam tea, red verjus, blackberry, sage, thyme11
• "Amaro"
  cinnamon, ginger beer, lime11

About

Elske Accolades

• 2017-2022Michelin 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