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Best of Chicago, Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll Jun 24, 2015
Best cocktail list
- Tags: Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll, Best of Chicago 2015, Best cocktail list, The Violet Hour

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best cocktail list

The Violet Hour
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best cocktail list, The Violet Hour, Scofflaw, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2014
Tasting 33 cocktails at the Violet Hour

How to taste almost the entire cocktail list at this venerable cocktail bar—and still be able to walk at the end.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Violet Hour, spring menu, Toby Maloney, Andrew Mackey

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Cocktail List

The Violet Hour
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2013, cocktail list, Violet Hour, The Whistler, The Violet Hour, Whistler, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Cocktail

Tie
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2013, cocktail, old fashioned cocktail, Longman & Eagle, Juliet and Romeo cocktail, The Violet Hour, Billy Sunday Cocktail, Billy Sunday, Readers' Poll

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 14, 2013
A collection of curious cocktails

Eight bartenders contribute an unusual and delicious creation to our dream cocktail list.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, cocktails, cocktail menus, recipes, cocktail recipes, bartenders, mixologists, books, Rogue Cocktails, Beta Cocktails, blogs, Maksym Pazuniak, Kirk Estopinal, Rogue Brewery, Christiana DeLucca, Jenny Kessler, Becherovka, mezcal, muscat, liqueur, Griffin Elliot, bitters, Fernet Branca, Eric Henry, rye whiskey, whiskey, rum, ambergris, brandy, Gregg Buttera, Stephen Cole, hot drinks, dessert drinks, Mike Ryan, cachaca, sherry, Savannah Witmer, gin, The Violet Hour, The Drawing Room, Masa Azul, Scofflaw, The Whistler, Billy Sunday, Barrelhouse Flat, Sable Kitchen & Bar, Boka, demerara, The Aviary, Whistler

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2013
Video
Where Malort really comes from

A short video made for a Second City competition imagines where the wormwood-based spirit might originate.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Malort, Second City, Michael Carlson, Jeppson's Malort, Violet Hour, Video

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Cocktail List

The Violet Hour
- Tags: Food & Drink, The Whistler, The Violet Hour, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Cocktail

Juliet and Romeo (the Violet Hour)
- Tags: Food & Drink, Scofflaw, the Whistler, Longman & Eagle, the Violet Hour, Readers' Poll

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 21, 2012
Mother's ruin

Chicago has no excuse for lagging in the world of competitive cocktailing. We’re just too nice.
- By Lauren Viera
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, bars, bar guide, cocktails, cocktail bars, Paul McGee, Lynn House, speakeasies, gin, New York, Grant Achatz, Charles Joly, Michael Kornick, Adam Seger, gin, Scofflaw, The Violet Hour, The Matchbox

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 23, 2011
Best cocktail list

The Whistler voted best cocktail list
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best cocktail list, Readers' poll, The Whistler, Violet Hour, Sable Kitchen & Bar, The Violet Hour, Whistler

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 6, 2011
The Missing Mural

Artist Tyrue "Slang" Jones cries foul after his Violet Hour painting vanishes.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Tyrue "Slang" Jones, Violet Hour, Tyrue Jones, Donnie Madia, Terry Alexander, Peter Garfield, Blackbird, Avec, Big Star, Danny's Tavern, the Publican, Sonotheque, Ray "CRO" Noland, Ray Noland, Emily Woodworth, Nick Goettling, Slang, The Violet Hour, murals

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 10, 2010
Readers' Poll
Best cocktail list

The Violet Hour voted Chicago's best
- Tags: Food & Drink, The Red Canary, The Violet Hour, Cocktails, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Arts & Entertainment Jun 10, 2010
Readers' Poll
Best lounge
- Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Underground Wonder Bar, The Violet Hour, Delilah's, Readers' Poll

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Column Dec 10, 2009
Books for Cooks

The season's most inspiring food-related tomes
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Column, cookbooks, Gourmet Today, Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl, I Know How to Cook, Ginette Mathiot, Clotilde Dusoulier, Chocolate and Zucchini, Ad Hoc at Home, Thomas Keller, The French Laundry, The Fat Duck Cookbook, Heston Blumenthal, My New Orleans, John Besh, The Violet Hour

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Column Oct 8, 2009
Books for Cooks

A history of curry, a guide to local mushrooms, a year on a sustainable farm, and more
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Column, Curry: A Global History, Colleen Taylor Sen, Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois & Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, Joe McFarland, Gregory M. Mueller, mycology, foraging, mushroom picking, 250 True Italian Pasta Dishes, John Coletta, Nancy Ross Ryan, Quartino, The Berghoff Cafe Cookbook, Carlyn Berghoff, Sweetness: A Girl's Guide to Delicious Baked Treats for Every Occasion, Sarah Levy, Rogue Cocktails, the Violet Hour, Kirk Estopinal, Maksym Pazuniak, The Culinary Professional, Kendall College, John Draz, The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm, Terra Brockman, the Land Connection, 17 West at the Berghoff, The Berghoff

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