Green City Market Chef BBQ Restaurant List Continues to Grow; Secure your tickets now.

Green City Market’s 15^th annual Chef BBQ benefit, taking place this Thursday, July 16 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (VIP entry at 4:30 p.m.) in Lincoln Park, continues to add high-profile restaurants to their ever-growing list of participants. Complementing the BBQ’s 100+ chefs and restaurants are more than 30 of the Midwest’s best brewers, distilleries, wineries, and mixologists will feature locally made craft beer, wine, hand-crafted cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages.

Green City Market Chef BBQ Attendees.
Photo credit: Cindy Kurman, Kurman Communications, Inc.

With the BBQ only days away and Thursday’s forecast looking bright, now is the time to secure your ticket to Chicago’s most exciting food fest of the summer. Tickets to the benefit go a long way in helping Green City Market cover operating costs year-round. Green City Market Chef BBQ tickets can be bought online here. For more information on the BBQ including pictures from last summer’s benefit, visit the Green City Market Newsroom.

New additions to the fabulous roster include chefs from hotels such as the Waldorf Astoria Chicago to Girl & the Goat Executive Chef Stephanie Izard’s upcoming Chinese restaurant Duck Duck Goat. Hospitality groups such as Element Collective (Nellcote, Old Town Social, Leghorn Chicken, RM Champagne Salon, Owen + Alchemy, Kinmont ) and One Off Hospitality Group (Blackbird, Nico Osteria, The Publican, Ladies of Pastry) also will be taking part in the highly-anticipated benefit.

Below is a complete list of the restaurants and beverage providers partaking in the 2015 Green City Market Chef BBQ:

Restaurants

312Chicago

676 Restaurant and Bar                

Ada St.

Arbor

Armour & Swift

Atwood Restaurant

Balena   

Bar Takito / Takito Kitchen          

BellyQ

Big Jones            

Bistronomic                       

Boka

Boltwood           

Bottlefork / The Duck Inn            

Cafe des Architectes     

ceres' table        

CH Distillery

Chilam Balam / Shaman by Chilam Balam              

Cochon Volant 

Cookies & Carnitas

Dirk's Fish & Gourmet Shop

DMK Burger Bar / Fish Bar / MK

Element Collective: Nellcote / Old Town Social / Leghorn Chicken / RM Champagne Salon / Owen + Alchemy / Kinmont

Eli’s Cheesecake              

Embeya

Farmhouse Chicago       

Feast / Goddess & Grocer

Fork       

Formento's

FOUND                

Frontera Grill / Topolobampo / XOCO    

Frontier

Gather  

Girl & the Goat / Little Goat / Duck Duck Goat    

Prairie Grass Cafe's George Bumbaris and Sarah Stegner.
Photo credit: Cindy Kurman, Kurman Communications, Inc.

Goose Island Beer Company

GT Fish and Oyster         

HaiSous

Haymarket Pub & Brewery

Heartland Meats Inc.

Highflier Provisions        

Homestead on the Roof              

Japonais by Morimoto                  

Knife & Tine

La Sirena Clandestina  and the upcoming El Che Bar

Lillie's Q / LQ Chicken Shack

Limelight             

Lockwood Restaurant & Bar

Lula

Maddy's Dumpling House

Madison & Rayne           

Maple & Ash                     

Momotaro

North Pond Restaurant

One Off Hospitality Group: Blackbird / Nico Osteria / The Publican

One Off Hospitality Group: Ladies of Pastry

Osteria Via Stato             

Park Grill at Millennium Park      

Perennial Virant

Piece Brewery

Prairie Grass Cafe           

Red Door

River Roast

Sable Kitchen & Bar        

Salero Restaurant           

Seedling              

Sepia

Seven Lions       

Shaw's Crab House         

Smoque and Ina              

Sofitel Chicago Water Tower

Sunday Dinner Club / Honey Butter Fried Chicken

Table, Donkey and Stick               

Taus Authentic                 

Terzo Piano       

tesori trattoria and bar

TÊTE Charcuterie             

The Betty           

The Bristol          

The Chopping Block

The Dawson

The Gage / Acanto

The Glunz Tavern            

The Kitchen

The Nomad Food Co.                    

The Peninsula Chicago

The Radler

The Signature Room at the 95th®

The Terrace at The Conrad

Three Floyds Brewpub 

Trenchermen / Pub Royale

Uncommon Ground & Greenstar Brewing

Uncommon Ground on Devon  

Vie Restaurant 

Villains Chicago

Waldorf Astoria Chicago               

White Oak Tavern & Inn               

Wood Restaurant

Beverages

Bell’s Brewery

Blaum Bros. Distilling Co.

Candid Wines

CH Distillery

Columbia Street Roastery

Dablon Vineyards Winery & Tasting Room

Forbidden Root Brewery

Fresh Coast

Goose Island Beer Company

Grand River Spirits

Half Acre Beer Co.

Hickory Creek Winery

Illinois Sparkling Co.

Intelligentsia Coffee / Kilogram Tea

KOVAL Distillery

Lakeshore Beverage

Lehmans Orchard

Lush Wine & Spirits featuring Chateau Nomad

Metropolitan Brewing

Midwest Wine Selections

Moody Tongue Brewing Company

New Holland Brewing and Artisan Spirits

North Shore Distillery

Off Color Brewing

Oppidan Spirits

Quincy Street Distillery

Three Floyds Brewpub

Two Brothers Brewing Co.

Vitani Spirits

Wirtz Beverage Group

Twenty-One New Restaurants Featured at Green City Market’s 15th Annual Chef BBQ Benefit July 16

CHICAGO, IL, July 2015 — Twenty-one new restaurants will join Green City Market’s 15th annual Chef BBQ Benefit 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, July 16 in Lincoln Park. The BBQ will showcase the who’s who of Chicago’s culinary scene, including this year’s new comers: Acanto, Arbor, Bar Takikto, Bohemian House, Bottlefork, Fork, Formento's, Frontier, HaiSous, Japonais by Mormioto, Lillie’s Q, Maddy’s Dumpling House, River Roast, Salero, Seven Lions, Taus Authentic Food, The Duck Inn, The Gage, The Kitchen, The Nomad Food Company and Villains Chicago. The list of new restaurants continues to grow, so be sure check the Green City Market website often to see what restaurants have been added.

All dishes served at the BBQ feature items offered from the bounty of the market with over 100 chefs and restaurants creating culinary magic. In addition to food, more than 30 of the Midwest’s best brewers, distilleries, wineries, and mixologists will feature locally made craft beer, wine, hand-crafted cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages. 

For the 5th consecutive year, the Green City Market BBQ lead sponsor is Wirtz Beverage Group. Their featured brands this year are: 

• Craft Beer/Cider: BuckleDown Brewery, Une Annee, 4 Hands Brewing, and Citizen Cider
• Craft Spirits: Death’s Door Spirits, Suerte Tequila, Templeton Rye Whiskey

For additional information, visit the Wirtz Beverage website at http://www.wirtzbev.com/drinks@chefbbq. 

Advance tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets and at the Green City Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Check the Green City Market website at http://gcmchefbbq.brownpapertickets.com/. General admission tickets are $125; individual VIP tickets are $250. 

For the first time this year, VIP tickets may be purchased in various quantities, making it easy for companies and families to enjoy the special treatment in groups of whatever table configuration they want. VIP experience will feature elegant décor, with optional seating styles for tables of 2, 4, 6 or more. Large corporate cabanas seat 16 for $10,000 and include a dedicated server for food and beverage service. Logo recognition is available at the gold level as well as placement on cabana, step & repeat, and program. Private lounge grouping seats 10 guests for $5,000, including a small cabana, a dedicated server for food and beverage service and logo recognition at the silver level in program and on cabana. VIP ticket holders are treated to a special early VIP reception from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to purchase tickets early, as this event has sold out in past years.

Visit the Green City Market Website for a complete list of participants.