Chicago

From the Lula Cafe peeps, Nightwood's an intimate, rustic cafe adorned with mismatched antique gaslamps hung from a carved white oak ceiling. The wood-fire grill'd open kitchen slings a constantly rotating menu of heavily local, seasonal grub (applewood-rotisserie chicken, slow-roasted pork loin, Slagel Farm burgers, etc) along with after-eats like ganache-covered homemade pretzels and a panna cotta w/ Santa Monica tangerines, perky enough for a handful, just like Everclear lead singer Art Alexakis's.