However, the selections we tried were very impressive. When you have even 200 diners and a room with the acoustics of Tao's, conversations can be a little challenging. The menu is a lot to digest ( pun intended ), with categories such as "The Sea," "The Land" and "The Sky." There are also soups, dim sum, yakitori ( skewered chicken ), sushi and sashimi, noodles and rice, sides and even specialty rollswhich could be a nightmare for indecisive folks. Hostesses and servers are the telegenic sort you'd expect to send at a trendier River North spot ( an observation, not a criticism ).īut since this is a culinary item, it would behoove me to discuss the foodand it would behoove you to try it.
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The cavernous dining area ( with steps leading it to it that could test a tipsy individual, given the darkness ) seats up to 300 patrons, and the Asian-themed spot ( which has a 30-foot ceiling ) has a 20-foot tall Quan Yin ( or "goddess of mercy" ) statue on one side. Patrons, fittingly, harbor huge expectationsand Tao meets almost every one of them. The restaurantwhich had a star-studded premiere and which regularly has celebrity DJs at its upstairs nightclubis an understandably huge spot.
) was when it was Excalibur nightclub at a circuit-club event that the now-defunct Hearts Foundation hosted.ĭining at Tao turned out to be much more memorable than that nightfor all the right reasons. The last time I was at what is now Tao Chicago ( 632 N. This article shared 4908 times since Wed Oct 2, 2019
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