After Martial Noguier left to open Bistronomic a few months back, we weren’t quite sure what the next move would be for Café des Architectes in the Sofitel Chicago Water Tower Hotel. Luckily they didn’t skip a beat, bringing in Greg Biggers, a Southern born chef who has done stints at Tru, Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood, and even Morimoto in Philadelphia. It wasn’t immediately clear what he planned to do with the modern restaurant, but now that’s it’s been two months, he finally released his first menu. Though the feel of the restaurant is mostly staying the same, the menu looks completely new to us.
Biggers is keeping the enormous cheese program, though he is changing the name to the “Cheese Ritual.” He’ll also continue the Executive Lunch, which features four mini courses all served at once for $22. The biggest difference will be a $39 3-course prix fixe dinner menu called Chef’s Market Selections. Of course, if you want to go all out, there is a five course tasting menu for $75 and a seven course one for $95.
New items include a $25 guinea hen with black garlic confit, a $32 Mother’s Milk Fed veal loin, and a $26 Muscovy duck breast with oyster mushrooms, which is picture above.
Along with the relatively new addition of pastry chef Meg Galus, the Café des Architectes you visited last year probably looks a lot different than what is available now. Check out both the new lunch and dinner menu below.
Café des Architectes Lunch Menu [Word]
Café des Architectes Dinner Menu [ Word]
