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January 2008, Issue 44 | |
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Sheffield's
Beer and Wine Garden |
Raven's |
Silver
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| The baby New Year waddles in, full of hope and optimism, relieving the doddering Old Year, bent and gray after holding office for a mere 365 days. Considering the current state of affairs it’s amazing that someone didn’t have to come in to relieve him in June or July. It’s January, time for the Iowa Caucuses, a tradition that everyone has heard of but few understand. It’s a typically American trait to endlessly repeat a word without ever bothering to pick up the dictionary to figure out just exactly what it means. So, to dispel the mystery once and for all, a caucus, according to Miriam Webster is: a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy. In the Iowa variety, this literally consists of a big group of corn-fed patriots shuffling into a gym in some remote outpost and standing under a sign bearing their candidate’s name. Then somebody trots out the abacus and totals up the percentages, announces the results, and everyone tries to convince everyone else to move over to their side of the fence. After a few hours of this, they all load back into the pickup trucks and trundle on home. All of which inspires the news networks to devote hundreds of hours of coverage, consisting of people who’ve never been to Iowa before and who will never return again debating the merits of the debate. Hey, it’s long been observed that, in the end, we get what we deserve. Hence our present political system and Brittney Spears. Thankfully for all of you, you deserve a stop by Sheffield’s to insulate yourselves against the inanities. But why should you shun the convenience of home delivery and brave the cold for a night out at your favorite bar? Let us count the ways. For starters, there’s our fantastic BBQ, available from lunch to late night every day of the week. We have daily specials that take it easy on your pocketbook; a bonus considering the inevitable arrival of those Christmas credit card bills. There’s our
lineup of entertainment, from RUI, the first Wednesday of every month,
to stand up and improv; check out our website – www.sheffieldschicago.com
– for a complete line up. January 19th we’ll be teaming up with our friends from Uni-Brew for a brewer’s dinner featuring an evening of good food and fantastic beer. Sunday's and Monday's are football funday's and the good guys over at Goose Island and Sierra Nevada are on board sponsoring great beer specials and prize raffles; plus you can catch all the action on our plasma screen TV's. And when the Super Bowl rolls around, we’re pulling out all the stops. We’ll have specials on beer and good eats, prizes at each quarter with a big drawing at the end of the game. Last but not least, we’ve newly remodeled our rooms to make dining at Sheffield’s an even more comfortable experience, as if great food and beer weren’t enough to begin with. The dust is still settling, but by the end of the month we’ll have the rough edges rounded off and ready for the unveiling. While it may be true
that man does not live by bread alone, you throw in a little beer and
BBQ and you’ve got most of the bases covered. So Feliz Ano Nueve
and remember, it’s only three months until Opening Day. |
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Join us at Ravens for Cocktails and Conversation everyday till 4am (5am on Saturdays)! • $3 draft special - all day/everyday. Hope to see you soon! |
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One of the primary traditions of the New Year celebrations here these fractiously United States is the New Year’s resolution. It’s interesting to note that the base of the word resolution is resolve, which springs from the Latin solvere - to loosen or dissolve, and which shares a common grammatical heritage with both ‘secede’ and ‘lose’. So it would not be a stretch to say that our resolutions for the New Year are a process of dissolving our associations with the past, losing old habits and finding the resolve to adopt new ones. One resolution we’ve adopted here at the Silver Cloud is to serve up our Anti-Resolution Killer Carb Special, every day this month. $9.95 gets you a plate filled with grilled cheese, mac & cheese and mashed potatoes and gravy. Operating on the principal that to combat your demons you must first embrace them, we’re giving you the opportunity to get rid of the guilt by giving in. Whether that’s resolve or rationalization is simply a matter of opinion. And since January here in Chicago has kicked off with a surfeit of cold and snow, it’s only appropriate to note that January 16th is International Hot and Spicy Food Day - but, of course you knew that. There’s no better way to combat the lethargy of long winter than with a dish designed in more sultry climes, so stop on by and see what’s cookin’. Jan 29th the Silver Cloud hosts a CD release party for The Bedlam in Goliath the new album from The Mars Volta. The etymology of the title is too long and convoluted to recite here, but should the fact that it involves Ouija boards and travels in Jerusalem pique your interest, a visit to the Wikipedia site might be in order: Bedlam. We’ll have $3.50 Goose Island 312 bottles and free CD giveaways and, of course, we’ll feature tracks from the album all night long. And, even though it’s technically a February event, the first Sunday after January ends is the annual return of that football fiesta, the Super Bowl. We'll be holding a tailgate party at Silver Cloud, complete with build your own brats and buckets of PBR and Miller Lite for $14. Tailgating is more of a state of mind than a physical location, so why freeze your tail out in the cold when you can sit in front of our plasma screens and watch all the action in temperature controlled comfort. It may
be the cold and flu season, but our daily specials are nothing to sneeze
at. Check these out and then check yourself off of the couch and come
on over: Happy
New Year! |
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