The Florian Opera Bistro is the more casual eatery and bar on the third floor. There’s a classic fancy opera cake roulade, an apple pastry, a cheesecake, even a “Freud chocolate hazelnut royal.” (I’m assuming this means general director Anthony Freud, not Sigmund, although the mousse and caramelized concoction does look rather guilt-inducing.) The wine list, with input from master sommelier Alpana Singh (of The Boarding House, Seven Lions and Terra & Vine), includes hearty red discoveries such as Gouguenheim RSV Malbec from Argentina ($56 a bottle), along with an array of prudent by-the-glass values starting at $11.Īnd the desserts are yet another feast. I recommend the curried carrot soup, which goes down like velvet, and the appetizer of marinated grilled quail neither is the sort of thing you toss off easily at home. In the bel canto spirit, I suppose.Įach of the courses in the Pedersen Room’s prix-fixe deal includes several options ( see a sample menu here).
Restaurants near lyric opera house update#
It’s the story of a Tartar prince in love with an icy princess in Old Peking, and thus the Pedersen Room is favored with a handsome beef noodle dish with spicy wagyu beef, togarashi (a pepper), rice noodles and fried egg, devised by three chefs from Saigon Sisters.Ĭoming soon is a new featured chef to inaugurate a dish for Bellini’s “I Puritani,” which is an Italian opera set in 17th-century England during civil war, with a mad scene for the heroine and a happy ending! I did not want to presume to guess how that will translate into a featured entrée, because the restaurant’s obviously having some fun with this idea, so I asked for an update and Lyric came through with the 411: Chef Federico Comacchio from Coco Pazzo is designing a braised lamb dish - Agnello al Chianti. 27, Puccini’s “Turandot” is in the opera house. The Lyric’s street-level Sarah and Peer Pedersen Room has a prix-fixe menu that changes slightly with each new production, when a featured chef from the Chicago area is invited to suggest a single entrée in the spirit of the particular show at hand, among five or six other entrée options. It would not come as a shock if they revealed that they had worked with a restaurant management consultant in order to help them finesse their goals and how they were going to go about achieving them to provide such an experience to those looking to combine their visit to the opera with dinner. Lyric’s onsite restaurants are equally – and fiercely – dedicated to the principle that Yes, you absolutely will make curtain, and Yes, you can come back to your table at intermission for coffee, dessert, and the rest of the wine. It makes me wonder if they used restaurant pos systems or other powerful technology to succeed so well! Let me count the ways a highly anticipated Big Ticket Event can go bad from the start.Ĭonsidering how successful its in-house restaurant is, it’s no surprise the Lyric Opera of Chicago has added a three-course $39 prix-fixe white-tablecloth venue and a more casual bistro-style dining venue that is managed by Jewell Events Catering.
If the weather’s bad, the traffic’s worse, and the parking line’s a mile long….If the restaurant’s service is slow and there’s no time for coffee to counteract the drinks….Around Town: Pedersen Room, Florian Bistro update their in-house dining options for ticket-holders at the Lyric Opera By Nancy Malitz
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