Graham Elliot Bistro
Chicago
If rock-and-roll is religion, then Graham Elliot's funky new bistro is its culinary tabernacle, with menus affixed to vinyl records, and candles evoking "patron saints" from Michael Jordan to Grant Achatz. Snag a seat on the cobblestone back patio and take down some sockeye salmon w/ garlic & lardo, or just knock back tiki-inspired 'tails like the dark rum/key lime/orgeat Black Tai Affair, so potent nobody would even notice if Garth Brooks showed up wearing boots.