For Valentine's Day, we look back at five Chicago restaurants known as romantic spots for couples to convene, including Everest, Cafe Bohemia and Fondue Stube.
Diners eat at the newly redecorated Cafe Bohemia at Adams and Clinton streets on Jan. 23, 1965, in Chicago. The menu at Cafe Bohemia focused on the exotic, including buffalo and bear. The man in the bib ordered a whole live lobster. In 1986, Cafe Bohemia, the 50-year-old restaurant that gave the world the buffalo burger, served its last dishes of bear, hippotamus, lion, whale and crisp duck with wild rice.
While relatively tame dishes like hefty steaks, chops, ribs, veal, venison, fresh fish, and fowl were the usual fare, Janek would also supplement his menu with exotic meats such as elephant, pheasant, lion, bear, beaver, elk, buffalo burgers, broiled moose and sheep. Janek would say he’d estimate the ferocity of the upcoming winter by how much fat the bears had that year. The heads of some of these entrees wound up as mounted décor.
The destination was an offbeat, adventurous and somewhat terrifying concept that fascinated diners for five decades — truly a relic of an old era. While its wild game offerings provided interesting fodder for the time, it only comprised a small portion of the menu. Today, the ethics of such a food program are questionable, but at the time it was a novelty. Crisp duck with wild rice became the fan favorite, and by 1970, the establishment had served its millionth duck.
And Fondue Stube’s customers love it, indeed. It supplies the right mood with low lighting, deep red walls, and eclectic, vintage charm that says supper-club-meets-fondue-diner. Though it shares the same concept as other fondue spots in the city, such as the venerable Geja’s Café, it distinguishes itself with uncrowded seating, better parking, affordability and classical music overtures.
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