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It’s the Most Delicious Time of the Year! Tasting/Sampling at Marion Street Cheese Market

Michelle — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:57:48 +0000

Visit retail and sample some delicious items to include in holiday boxes, at your next party or just for you!

FRIDAY 12/16: (4:30-7:30)

*Truffle Truffle – an artisan chocolates & confections company
based in Chicago, with a passion for personalization! They are offering you tastes of their
delicious truffles – perfect for holiday gifts!

*Tenzing Wine & Spirits – is a Chicago-based wholesale wine,
spirits and sake distributor, inspired by the Sherpa guide and the Nepalese
word for balance, or equilibrium.
They’ll be offering tastes of Combier Orange Liqueur, Fair Trade
spirits, Vodka and coffee liqueur

*Lagnaippe Beverage – works with
environmentally conscientious people who use ecologically responsible practices
to create products that express their region and culture. Offering Leopold
Brothers Orange, Leo Bros Cherry, Leo Bros Gin, Leo Bros Peach Whiskey, and the
NEW Chinato (fortified Nebbiolo) from Oregon state!

SATURDAY 12/16 : (1-4)

Colby from Distillery Geeks – Smith & Cross Jamaican Pot Stilled Navy Strength rum, Niesson Agricole Rhum, 2 bottles of BEAUTIFUL scotch, 2 bourbons!

COW TOWN – an evening honoring Wisconsin Cheesemakers!

Michelle — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:26:21 +0000

Title: COW TOWN – an evening honoring Wisconsin Cheesemakers!
Description: marion street cheese market and the wisconsin milk marketing board present COW TOWN – an evening honoring wisconsin cheesemakers!

**featuring** multiple cheesemakers, fine wine, craft beer & artisanl spirits! 10 different savor, sweet and singularly exquisite edibles!

$30 per person – buy tickets on line or in store http://marionstreetcheesemarket.com/shop/cow-town-november-16th-2011-event/

PLUS – get 10% off all your purchases that night, and an MSCM tasting glass! Over 21 event! AND at 9pm, join us for a screening of Living on the Wedge!
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-11-16

Chicago Craft Beer Week & MSCM Prix Fixe Tuesday

Michelle — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:15:29 +0000

MSCM continues the Craft Beer Week TAP Stravaganza with a special Fixe Menu.

Enjoy this amazing Chef’s Menu for $33 / person. For just $20 more, you get a 7 glass sampler of some of the best Barleywines made in America.

Barley TAPstravaganza Chef Choice Menu

First – Arancini – crispy carnaroli rice + Widmer’s 4yr cheddar + barleywine port syrup

Second – Artisan cheese course with house made barleywine raisin jam

Third - Milo’s farm egg + grilled mushroom & swiss chard ragout + fingerling potato Moody Blue cheese hash + ramp butter

Dessert – Beer & cupcakes – dark chocolate barleywine cupcake + cascade hop buttercream + barleywine float

No substitutions. Tax and gratuity not included.

Barleywine – TAP-Stravaganza / chicago beer week

Michelle — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:45:13 +0000

Barleywine Tap-Stravaganza/Chicago Beer Week

Join us Tuesday, May 17th from 6pm to 10pm, Marion Street Cheese Market & Louis Glunz Beer are proud to announce a Barleywine Tap-Stravaganza!

For one night and one night only, we’ll be featuring SEVEN different,, limited release Barleywines all on tap in our bistro. For just $20, you get a 7 glass sampler of some of the best Barleywines made in America.

What is a Barleywine, you may ask. Barleywine is a big, complex ale that can be aged like fine wine. It is loaded with lots of malt and and in the American style, also a ton of hops. Barleywine is typically also very high in alcohol content. And in the hands of serious craft brewers, Barleywine can be an amazing and unique beer that can vary greatly from brewery to brewery.

And with 7 on tap that evening, you will get the chance to enjoy some very rare and extraordinary Barleywines from some of America’s finest craft breweries. Here is the line-up for the evening:

Arcadia Cereal Killer

New Holland Pilgrim’s Dole

Great Divide Old Ruffian

Anchor Brewing Old Foghorn

Two Brothers Bare Tree

Dogfish Head Olde School

Three Floyd’s Behemouth

To learn more about what makes Barleywine so special, unique and exciting, check out this great link: http://beer.about.com/od/barleywi2/p/Brlywineprofile.htm

1st Tuesday with Mindful Metropolis @ MSCM

Michelle — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:42:43 +0000

1st Tuesday with Mindful Metropolis – Tuesday 5/3/11 – - 5:30 to 7:30pm
Join us for our “1st Tuesdays!” The first Tuesday of every month we will gather at a local venue that shares our passion of mindful living and release the newest issue of the magazine.

This event is free. Light appetizers will be served by Marion Street Cheese Market.

Transportation:
Located in Downtown Oak Park.
City Dwellers: take the Green Line to Harlem (half hour from loop) and exit via the east stairs. Marion Street is only a 1/2 block away.

Please RSVP via the Facebook page or email info@mindfulmetropolis.com so we know how many to expect!

Marion Street Cheese Market — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:11:38 +0000

An Evening of GREED with MSCM and Al Gini
and you thought LUST was provocative??

Executive Chef Leonard Hollander has crafted a gourmet greed-themed dinner menu and Loyola University Chicago’s Al Gini will be providing the food for thought with a discussion on another deadly sin: GREED. Join us to celebrate and/or condemn Tax Day 2010! So, if you hunger for dinner and a show, join us for an evening of greed on Tuesday, April 13th @ 7:00pm. $40 per person. Make your reservations by calling 708.725.7200

The Menu
asparagus bisque + smoked asparagus + black truffle crema
golden beets + honey glazed almonds + capriole chevre
roasted sableish + forbidden rice + charred scallions
coconut coffee tart + vanilla bean honey + cayenne crisp

In honor of President’s Day: George Washington’s Recipe for Beer

Marion Street Cheese Market — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:21:23 +0000

George Washington was a devout beer lover. In particular, he was fond of the dark, English-style brew known as porter, and always demanded that an ample supply of it be kept on hand at Mount Vernon, his Virginia estate. However, it was not porter, but rather “small beer,” for which Washington once recorded an early recipe. Preserved in the manuscript collections of the New York Public Library is a notebook kept by Washington, which includes the following hand-written recipe.

“To Make Small Beer
Take a large Siffer [Sifter] full of Bran Hops to your Taste. — Boil these 3 hours then strain out 30 Gall[ons] into a cooler put in 3 Gall[ons] Molasses while the Beer is Scalding hot or rather draw the Melasses into the cooler & St[r]ain the Beer on it while boiling Hot. let this stand till it is little more than Blood warm then put in a quart of Yea[s]t if the Weather is very Cold cover it over with a Blank[et] & let it Work in the Cooler 24 hours then put it into the Cask — leave the bung open till it is almost don[e] Working — Bottle it that day Week it was Brewed.”

PS. In case you don’t have a cask or bran hops, you can stop in at MSCM and we’ll help you select the perfect beer – growler or bottles! Toast the President’s today with a nice porter!

Illinois Craft Brewers Guild Five By Five Dinner at Marion Street Cheese Market

Marion Street Cheese Market — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:48:57 +0000

Monday, January 11, 2010 / 7:00pm

Pete Crowley of Rock Bottom Brewery in Chicago is at it again. Five courses, five great beers. Executive Chef, Leonard Hollander, has written a menu that will pair perfectly with some amazing beer from some incredible Illinois breweries. Brewmasters from Goose Island, Gordon Biersch, America’s Brewing, Flossmoor Station and Rock Bottom Brewery will be participating. Cost: $55, which includes a beer flight but not tax or gratuity. Call 708.725.7200 to reserve your spot!

Welcome! America’s Brewing Pilsner

First

Stuffed Peppers

piquillo peppers + whitefish brandade + marcona almond romesco

Beer: Flossmoor Station’s Panama Red

Second

Soup & Salad

chestnut bisque + crispy parmesan + mushroom salad

Beer: Goose Island Brewpub’s Alt

Third

American artisan cheese course

Beer: Stilton with Rock Bottom’s Imperial Red, Cheddar with Flossmoor Station’s Pullman Brown

Fourth

Duck Pasta

duck leg confit + white truffle ricotta + local butternut squash

Beer: Gordon Biersch’s Marzen

Fifth

Kumquat Duo

dark chocolate truffle

Tiramisu

Beer: Rock Bottom’s Bourbon Imperial Stout