Chicago Carnivale

Something you might notice when you visit Chicago: everywhere you go, they're playing house music. Appropriate for the home of Frankie Knuckles, and where Mayor Daley declared a citywide day of appreciation for Chicago House. (Really!) But they're really trying to get the most out of their patented genre when it's the must-bump music in every single trendy eatery in the whole goddamn city. At least that's how it felt at Carnivale, this amazing and gigantic new restaurant that's colored like the inside of a kaleidoscope and overlooks a highway of zooming headlights. We'd offer more detail but the mojitos were wicked, wicked things.