Start with drinks such as the Ruby Red Dragon ( Finlandia grapefruit vodka, orange liquor, yuzu citrus, hint of pomegranate ).Īppetizers were promising, with my friend adoring the oysters with osetra caviar. 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. 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.

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