Think Outside the Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween Dining and Activities

When it comes to Halloween dining, drinking, and activities, there’s so much more to it than candy and bobbing for apples. From offal-themed dinners to Goldfish-eating challenges, here are some surefire bets for unique Halloween fun this year in Chicago.

If ever there’s an apt time to feast on organ meats like a haute zombie, it’s Halloween. Table, Donkey and Stick is serving up its second annual Halloween offal dinner menu for the holiday, featuring a salacious array of brain, heart, liver, and more. Apropos tricks and treats for adults, the five-course menu includes fried shrimp head with monkfish liver mousse, veal brain croquette, pig ear terrine with warm trotter vinaigrette, foie ‘nduja with pickled duck tongues, and lamb heart tartare with lamb fries and French fries. At meal’s end, diners go home with a goody bag filled with caramel corn chicharrones.

Haunted houses are all well and good, but more often than not they are filled with too many screechy tweens and not enough Top Chef alums. That’s where Little Goat comes in. On Halloween weekend, Stephanie Izard and her Little Goat brood are transforming the second floor into a veritable haunted house of horrors, albeit filled with drinks and snacks far greater than the typical house party. The spooky spectacle takes place November 1 at 6:30 pm.

In true throwback-style fashion, Scofflaw embraces its inner Belushi for an Animal House party on Halloween. Filled with sweatshirts, togas, and red Solo cups, the beer-filled event is an ideal adventure for casual Halloween-goers. There will also be ’70s dance music on blast courtesy of DJ Carlos Mercado. It all goes down betwe

If Goldfish crackers are more your style, then head to Fish Bar. Everyone’s favorite fish-shaped snack is the center of an eating competition on Halloween, wherein participants vie for a chance to win tickets to a Chicago Bears game. Enter the challenge here. Additionally, Fish Bar will also host a three-course snow crab boil for Halloween with pumpkin brews and ciders to accompany, in case that is more enticing to you than scarfing down crackers.

Table, Donkey and Stick
2728 W. Armitage Avenue, Chicago
(773) 486-8525
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Little Goat
820 W. Randolph Street, Chicago
(312) 888-3455
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Scofflaw
3201 W. Armitage Avenue, Chicago
(773) 252-9700
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Fish Bar
2956 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago
(773) 687-8177
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