Enjoy Hanukkah Klezmer Brunch At City Winery

By Melissa Wiley in Food on Dec 14, 2012 5:00PM

Tired of the deluge of corporate Christmas jingles? Sick of Santa chivying you to keep mass manufacturers in the black? Then forget Christmas, at least for a few hours, and holla for some challah at City Winery’s Sunday Klezmer brunch, which is doing more than decking the halls for the last day of Hanukkah. Spin that dreidel and let that menorah shine, because this is your chance to pile on the latkes and lox and let loose on the dance floor.

Last Sunday, we savored the full spread. Even better than the omelet bar, replete with fresh herbs, pastrami, and house-cured salmon, or the free-flowing mimosas and bloody Marys, however, was the live music of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, which bestowed a laser driedel playing the Beverley Hills Cop theme song on a particularly zippy dancer. The band’s crowd-pleasing chutzpah testified equally to the building’s state-of-the-art sound system as well as the fact that Jews simply have more fun—as if the fact that Hanukkah lasts eight days and Christmas only one weren’t proof enough.

The good times roll from 10 a.m. to 1 pm, and at $30 a person you owe yourself a second helping of rugelach and kugel.

City Winery is located at 1200 W. Randolph St.