We could start an entire category archive on Jerry Kleiner, but until that day arrives, this will suffice:
Dish
We made our semiannual call to Jerry Kleiner to see what he was up to, and, as usual, his answer was: a lot. “I’m negotiating with several spaces in Vegas for a Carnivale, and a new project in New Jersey called Xanadu,” says Kleiner. “And I think I’m going to open in Hyde Park in September. That’s going to be a contemporary American place with some of my twists on traditional American stuff.
And I have this old Al Capone brewery [2110 S. Wabash Ave.] where I’ve been working on the garden now for 16 months. Incredible landscaping, like a European setting. We just haven’t defined the food yet.” As long as it’s not small plates, we’ll be happy. “I’m not doing small plates,” he promised. “What is with Chicago? Everyone jumps on the bandwagon at the same time. In fact, that’s a good name: Not Small Plates. That’s what I should call it.”
a few snippets from the B12 Kleiner archive:
- Carnivale
- Hotel Victor
- Fulton Market as SoHo (is it the SoFu area?)
- Gioco sucked
- Jerry Kleiner, Mogul of the West Loop
- Kleiner projects
- Opera
