Looking for good food and/near great entertainment

Hello everyone,
I want to take my wife, my sister and her husband out for dinner next week. Looking for a place in the city with good food and good live entertainment. (maybe greek, italian, american etc)

or could be a restaurant with good food that is walking distance from clubs, bars etc.. similar to tavern on rush I guess. (dont want to go to that area)

Any suggestions?

Oh by the way

No seafood.

Brazillian or American steakhouses would be my number one choice.

I heard great things about fogo de chao but i dont know if there is any fun around the area.

Chief O'Neill's has live Irish music every Tuesday and Saturday evening, and much better food than you could reasonably expect from an Irish restaurant, thanks to The Lake Effect.

Uncommon Ground has live entertainment - http://www.uncommonground.com/

Fogo is close to www.bluechicago.com - http://www.andysjazzclub.com/

Hope its not too late, but how about dinner at Sun Wah (5039 N Broadway St, Chicago IL60640) and then strolling over to the Green Mill (4802 N. Broadway Ave. Chicago, IL 60640)? It's a little bit of a walk, less than 1/2 mile, but you pack in a lot of quintessential Chicago.

Silver Seafood (4829 N Broadway St, Chicago IL60640) is even closer, but you nixed seafood.

A little less adventurous, but still nice, would be Erwin Cafe (2925 North Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60657) and B.L.U.E.S. Chicago (2519 N Halsted, Chicago, IL 60657).

Another idea would be Union Pizzeria - upscale pizza (and other entrees) with a great music room in the back, called SPACE.

Union Pizzeria
1245 Chicago Avenue (one block east of the Dempster El stop)
Evanston, IL 60202-1337
(847) 475-2400
unionevanston.com

SPACE
(Society for the Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
same address
(847) 492-8860
evanstonspace.com

nr706 wrote:Another idea would be Union Pizzeria - upscale pizza (and other entrees) with a great music room in the back, called SPACE.

Union Pizzeria
1245 Chicago Avenue (one block east of the Dempster El stop)
Evanston, IL 60202-1337
(847) 475-2400
unionevanston.com

SPACE
(Society for the Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
same address
(847) 492-8860
evanstonspace.com

Excellent suggestion. It's worth adding, SPACE features some relatively big-name musical acts, with the opportunity to see them up close in a small venue. Check out the calendar on their website and see what strikes your fancy.

Some words of caution about the Union/SPACE combo, though. As you can see on the website, you can order pizza at Union and bring it in to SPACE to eat. I would strongly advise not doing this, unless you like eating out of your lap. The reserved seating at Space has four people at a table, but the tables are tiny (my recollection is they are rounds maybe a foot in diameter), barely enough for drinks; even worse, if you have general-admission seating, there are no tables at all. If you want to eat at Union before a show, allow plenty of time; waits of half an hour to be seated are fairly common, and they don't take reservations. (I ate there before a show and did not like their pizza at all, but I know some other people like it, so there's that too.)

Other restaurants within a block of SPACE include Blind Faith (vegetarian) and Dozika (pan-Asian). Expand the radius to half a mile and excellent choices include Oceanique (upscale seafood), Cross-Rhodes (Greek), Kuni's (sushi), Campagnola (contemporary American and Italian), Lucky Platter (eclectic), and Prairie Moon (California-ish).

I think Al Hambra on Randolph does a good job of combining those.